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The Mayor Of Candor Lied chords by 
Martyn Joseph 
N/A•
Key: D minor•BPM: 109
Intro 1
Am
C
In the little town of Candor
Verse 1
in the
G
last year of my youth
D
Dm
I learned the final lesson of the
F
levels to the truth
C
My father was a farmer he'd
G
go tilling in the ground
D
My mother was a neighbour
Dm
F
Am
she'd go visiting around
G
But I didn't care
For I had found the answer to a
Am
plowboy's lonely prayer
G
Em
E
Am
She was the daughter of the Mayor
C
The Mayor fought my courtship for
G
he'd made other plans
D
He saw her married to a better man
F
than a boy with farmer's hands
C
I said - - I hate your father,
G
it's so hard not to strike him
D
She said - - You know I love you be
F
Am
cause you're so much like him
G
And so I'd go sneaking in the evening
Bm
And there she'd stand a crying in
Em
C
Am
the dawn as I was leaving
The Mayor of Candor lied
D
When he offered me his only daughter
Am
The Mayor of Candor tried
D
To take her across the water
F
Dm
What a thing to do to a young
D
Dm
man in love
F
Am
What a thing to do to your daughter
C
One day with father on his
G
tractor and mother off again
D
Dm
I go to find the mayor
F
and work out what I can
C
But he is not at his office,
G
he is not at his home
D
When I find him in the countryside
Dm
F
Am
he is not alone
He is holding a woman and ima
G
gine my surprise
Bm
As she jumps back from his arms I
Em
C
look into my mother's eyes
Am
The Mayor of Candor lied!
Em
Am
D
Am
D
C
Em
All my thoughts of outrage,
G
C
embarrassment and pain
Am
D
Were washed away by what
F
came roaring through my brain
G
C
The Mayor's at my mercy
Em
G
and I hear my own voice say
Am
D
Dm
'Your run for re- election is
F
Am
just one month away.'
And the world will never know
G
of what I've seen here sir
Bm
But I'll be with your daughter is
Em
C
Am
my meaning clear, Sir?
D
Am
The Mayor of Candor lied.
D
F
Dm
D
Am
F
Am
C
My mother looks in horror at
G
the compromise we made
D
But the Mayor's rueful smile
F
says the piper must be paid
C
I had a month of joy in heaven from
G
this deal I'd made in hell
D
What was to happen then my friend
F
Am
a prophet could not tell
The day after his re- election
C
and the victory celebration
G
The Mayor takes his family on a month
Am
G
long foreign va cation
C
Oh Sarah - - you know how
G
much I love you
Bm
There is no one I'd ever
Em
place above you
C
G
Oh Sarah - - you don't even know me
Bm
To have you there's nothing
Em
C
Am
that's below me
C
The day that they return
G
I stand waiting in the road
D
Dm
I watch the car drive up I watch the
F
passengers unload
C
G
Of course she isn't there of course
I should have known
D
The Mayor says that she has stayed
Dm
F
Am
the decision was her own
He says she's finishing her schooling on
G
that unseen foreign shore
Bm
And I'll tell you very frankly boy,
Em
C
you'll not see her anymore
Am
D
The Mayor of Candor lied.
Am
D
F
Dm
D
Dm
F
Am
C
G
I spit out my hatred and my fury at his lies
Am
D
But he says you tried to blackmail
F
me you're just as bad as I
G
C
He says 'Go and do your damnedest
Em
G
C
Boy, throw your mother to the streets
D
Dm
You know it's been too many years
F
Am
G
I had to be discreet'
C
And as he stands there saying
G
we're just two of a kind
D
It hits me like a thunderbolt
Dm
F
exploding in my mind
C
As I look into his aged wrinkled
G
mirror of my own face
D
He laughs and sneers and says
Dm
F
- - Of course dear son
Where do you think you came from
Am
D
Am
D
in the first place?
Am
D
Am
The Mayor of Candor
Outro 1
lied
D
F
Dm
F
Am
D
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