The Mayor of Simpleton chords by XTC

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
D 
C 
Never been near a university,
Never took a paper or a learned degree,
G 
And some of your friends think
A 
that's stupid of me,
C 
D 
But it's nothing that I care about

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Verse 2

Well I don't know how to tell

the weight of the sun,

And of mathematics well I want none,

And I may be the Mayor of Simpleton,

But I know one thing and

that's I love you

When their

Verse 3
C 
D 
logic grows cold and
Em 
D 
all thinking gets done,
C 
Am 
You'll be warm in the arms of
D 
G 
the Mayor of Simpleton
C 
G 
C 

Verse 4
I can't have been there when
brains were handed round
(Please be upstanding for
the Mayor of Simpleton),
Or get past the cover of your
books profound,
(Please be upstanding for
the Mayor of Simpleton),
G 
And some of your friends thinks
A 
it's really unsound,
C 
D 
That you're even seen talking to me

Verse 5
C 
D 
Well I don't know how to
G 
write a big hit song,
C 
D 
And all crossword puzzles
G 
D 
well I just shun,
G 
E 
And I may be the Mayor of Simpleton,
Am 
C 
D 
But I know one thing and
Em 
C 
G 
that's I love you
D 
I'm not

Verse 6
Bm 
proud of the fact that
Em 
I never learned much,
G 
Just feel I should say,
Em 
Bm 
What you get is all real,
Em 
I can't put on an act,
C 
A 
D 
It takes brains to do that any
C 
G 
Am 
way (And anyway...)

Verse 7
C 
D 
And I can't unravel riddles,
G 
D 
problems and puns,
C 
D 
How the home computer
G 
has me on the run,
D 
G 
E 
And I may be the Mayor of Simpleton,
Am 
C 
Em 
D 
But I know one thing and that's
C 
D 
G 
C 
I love you (I love
G 
you)

Verse 8
C 
G 
D 
If depth of feeling is a currency,
C 
D 
(Please be upstanding for
C 
the Mayor of Simpleton),
D 
C 
G 
Then I'm the man who grew the money tree,
C 
G 
(No chain of office and no
C 
G 
hope of getting one)
Some of your friends are
A 
too brainy to see,
C 
That they're paupers and
D 
C 
D 
A 
that's how they'll stay
D 
Well I

Verse 9
C 
D 
don't know how many
G 
pounds make up a ton,
D 
C 
D 
Of all the Nobel prizes that
G 
I've never won,
E 
And I may be the Mayor of Simpleton,
Am 
C 
D 
But I know one thing and
Em 
C 
G 
that's I love you
Am 
When all

Verse 10
C 
D 
logic grows cold and
Em 
D 
all thinking gets done,
C 
Am 
You'll be warm in the arms of
D 
G 
the Mayor of Simpleton
C 
G 
C 
You'll be warm in the arms
D 
G 
of the Mayor of Simpleton
C 
G 
C 
You'll be warm in the
G 
D 
arms of the Mayor
C 
D 
C 
D 
C 
D 
(Please be upstanding
for the
C 
D 
C 
C 
D 
C 
Mayor of Simpleton)
D 
(Please be upstanding for the Mayor
D 
of Simpleton)
D 
(Please be upstanding for the
Mayor of Simpleton)
(Please be upstanding for the
Mayor of Simpleton)
(Please be upstanding
for the Mayor of Simpleton)