The Mayor of Candor Lied chords by
Harry Chapin

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Key: A minor•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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In the little town of Candor,

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in the last year of my youth

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I learned the final lesson of

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the levels to the truth

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My father was a farmer,

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he'd go tilling in the ground

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My mother was a neighbor,

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she'd go visiting around

Verse 2

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But I didn't care

For I had found the answer to

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a plowboy's lonely prayer

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She was the daughter of the mayor

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The

Verse 3

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mayor fought my courtship,

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for he'd made other plans

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He saw her married to a better man

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than a boy with farmer's hands

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I said, "I hate your father,

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it's so hard not to strike him"

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She said, "You know I love you be

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cause you're so much like him"

Verse 4

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And so I'd go sneaking in the evening

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And there she'd stand a-crying in

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in the dawn as I was leaving

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Verse 5

The mayor of Candor lied

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When he offered me his only daughter

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The mayor of Candor tried

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To take her off across the water

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What a thing to do to a young man in love

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And what a thing to do to

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your daughter

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Verse 6

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One day with father on his

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tractor and mother off again

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I go to find the mayor to

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work out what I can

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But he is not at his office,

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he is not at his home

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When I find him in the countryside,

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he is not alone

Verse 7

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He's holding a woman and ima

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gine my surprise

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As she jumps back from his arms

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I look into my mother's eyes

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The mayor of Candor lied

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Verse 8

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All my thoughts of outrage,

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embarrassment and pain

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Were washed away by what then

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went roaring through my brain

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How the mayor's at my mer cy

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and I hear my own voice say

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"Your run for re-election, sir,

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sir, is one month away"

Verse 9

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"And the world will never know

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of what I've seen here, sir

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But I'll be with your daughter,

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is my meaning clear, sir?"

Verse 10

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The mayor of Candor lied

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When he offered me his only daughter

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The mayor of Candor tried

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To take her off across the water

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What a thing to do to a young

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man in love

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And what a thing to do to

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your daughter

Verse 11

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My mother looks in horror at this

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compromise we made

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But the mayor's rueful smile said,

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"This piper must be paid"

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I had a month of joy in heaven from

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this deal I'd made in hell

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What was to happen then, my friend,

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a prophet could not tell

Interlude 1

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Asus4

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Asus4

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Verse 12

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The day after his re-election and

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and the victory celebration

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The mayor takes his family on a month-long

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foreign foreign va ca tion

Oh Coleen, you know how

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much I love you

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There is no one I'd ever place above you

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Oh Coleen, you don't even know me

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To have you, there's nothing that's

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below me

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(But time,

Verse 13

but time)

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But time always passes, after all

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And as the summer follows spring,

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so does the winter follow fall

Interlude 2

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Verse 14

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The day that they return,

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I stand waiting in the road

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I watch the car drive up,

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I watch the passengers unload

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Of course, she isn't there,

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of course, I should have known

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The mayor says that she has stayed,

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the decision is her own

He says, "She's finishing her schooling

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on that unseen foreign shore

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And I'll tell you very frankly, boy,

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you'll not see her anymore"

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The

Verse 15

mayor of Candor lied

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When he offered me his only daughter

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The mayor of Candor tried

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To take her off across the water

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What a thing to do to a young

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man in love

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And what a thing to do to your

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daughter

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Verse 16

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I spit out my hatred

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and my fury at his lies

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When he says, "You tried to blackmail me,

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you're just as bad as I

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Go on and do your damndest, boy,

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throw your mother to the streets

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You know it's been too many years

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I had to be discreet"

And as he stands there saying

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we're just two of a kind

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It hits me like a thunderbolt ex

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ploding in my mind

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Verse 17

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As I look into his leering, aged,

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wrinkled mirror of my own face

He laughs and sneers and says,

"Of course, dear son

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Where do you think you came

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from in the first place?

Verse 18

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The mayor of Candor lied

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When he offered me his only daughter

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The may or of Candor tried

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To take her off across the water

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What a thing to do to a young man in love

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And what a thing to do to your

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daughter

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