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The Mayor of Candor Lied chords by 
Harry Chapin
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Intro 1
Am
Dm
Am
Dm
Verse 1
F
In the little town of Candor,
C
in the last year of my youth
G
Gm
I learned the final lesson of
Bb
the levels to the truth
F
My father was a farmer,
C
he'd go tilling in the ground
G
My mother was a neighbor,
Bb
Am
Dm
she'd go visit ing around
Verse 2
C
But I didn't care
For I had found the answer to
Dm
a plowboy's lonely prayer
C
Am
Dm
She was the daughter of the mayor
Am
The
Verse 3
F
mayor fought my courtship,
C
for he'd made other plans
G
He saw her married to a better man
Bb
than a boy with farmer's hands
F
I said, "I hate your father,
C
it's so hard not to strike him"
G
She said, "You know I love you be
Bb
Am
Dm
cause you're so much like him"
Verse 4
Dm
C
And so I'd go sneaking in the evening
Em
And there she'd stand a-crying in
Am
F
in the dawn as I was leaving
Am
Dm
Verse 5
The mayor of Candor lied
G
When he offered me his only daughter
Dm
The mayor of Candor tried
G
To take her off across the water
Bb
G
What a thing to do to a young man in love
Bb
And what a thing to do to
Dm
your daughter
Am
Dm
Verse 6
Am
F
One day with father on his
C
tractor and mother off again
G
I go to find the mayor to
Bb
work out what I can
F
But he is not at his office,
C
he is not at his home
G
When I find him in the countryside,
Gm
Am
Dm
he is not alone
Verse 7
Dm
He's holding a woman and ima
C
gine my surprise
Em
As she jumps back from his arms
Am
F
I look into my mother's eyes
Dm
Am
The mayor of Candor lied
C
Am
Dm
Em
Verse 8
F
G
Am
C
F
Dm
All my thoughts of outrage,
C
Dm
embarrassment and pain
G
Were washed away by what then
Bb
went roaring through my brain
C
F
Am
How the mayor's at my mer cy
Dm
C
Am
Dm
and I hear my own voice say
G
"Your run for re-election, sir,
Bb
A
Dm
sir, is one month away"
Verse 9
Dm
"And the world will never know
C
of what I've seen here, sir
Em
But I'll be with your daughter,
Am
F
Am
Dm
is my meaning clear, sir?"
Verse 10
Dm
The mayor of Candor lied
G
When he offered me his only daughter
Dm
The mayor of Candor tried
G
To take her off across the water
Bb
G
What a thing to do to a young
Am
man in love
Bb
And what a thing to do to
Dm
your daughter
Verse 11
F
My mother looks in horror at this
C
compromise we made
G
But the mayor's rueful smile said,
Bb
"This piper must be paid"
F
I had a month of joy in heaven from
C
this deal I'd made in hell
G
What was to happen then, my friend,
Bb
Dm
a prophet could not tell
Interlude 1
Dm
C
Bb
Gm
Asus4
Dm
C
Bb
Asus4
Am
Dm
C
Bb
Am
Dm
Verse 12
Dm
Am
The day after his re-election and
Dm
Am
and the victory celebration
C
Em
A
Am
A
The mayor takes his family on a month-long
Dm
G
Dm
foreign foreign va ca tion
Oh Coleen, you know how
C
much I love you
Em
Am
F
There is no one I'd ever place above you
Am
Dm
C
Oh Coleen, you don't even know me
Em
To have you, there's nothing that's
Am
F
Am
below me
Dm
(But time,
Verse 13
but time)
Bb
C
But time always passes, after all
Em
And as the summer follows spring,
G
Am
F
so does the winter follow fall
Interlude 2
F
Am
Dm
Am
Dm
Am
Dm
Am
Verse 14
F
The day that they return,
C
I stand waiting in the road
G
I watch the car drive up,
Bb
I watch the passengers unload
F
Of course, she isn't there,
C
of course, I should have known
G
The mayor says that she has stayed,
Bb
A
Dm
the decision is her own
He says, "She's finishing her schooling
C
on that unseen foreign shore
Em
And I'll tell you very frankly, boy,
Am
F
you'll not see her anymore"
Dm
The
Verse 15
mayor of Candor lied
G
When he offered me his only daughter
Dm
The mayor of Candor tried
G
To take her off across the water
Bb
G
What a thing to do to a young
Dm
man in love
Bb
And what a thing to do to your
Am
Dm
daughter
G
Dm
F
Verse 16
G
Am
F
C
I spit out my hatred
Dm
and my fury at his lies
G
When he says, "You tried to blackmail me,
Bb
you're just as bad as I
C
F
Dm
Go on and do your damndest, boy,
C
Dm
throw your mother to the streets
G
You know it's been too many years
Bb
Dm
I had to be discreet"
And as he stands there saying
C
we're just two of a kind
G
It hits me like a thunderbolt ex
Dm
ploding in my mind
Dm
Verse 17
Gm
Dm
As I look into his leering, aged,
Gm
Dm
C
C
wrinkled mirror of my own face
He laughs and sneers and says,
"Of course, dear son
Em
C
Where do you think you came
Dm
from in the first place?
Verse 18
Dm
The mayor of Candor lied
G
When he offered me his only daughter
Dm
The may or of Candor tried
G
G
To take her off across the water
Bb
G
What a thing to do to a young man in love
Dm
Bb
And what a thing to do to your
Dm
daughter
Am
Dm
Am
Dm
Am
Dm
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