The More You Pay chords by Don McLean

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Verse 1
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The auctioneer said,
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I'm not through yet,
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Here's a horse the likes
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of which you've never seen,
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And the straw hats in the sun,
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with a face beneath each one,
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Shown doubtful and the
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auctioneer got mean.
Do you think that you can find
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a horse like this every day?
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I don't think there's
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any better on this earth,
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And the more you pay,
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the more it's worth.
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Then out she came,

Verse 2
a snow- white mare,
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Prancin' and a dan cin'
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in the silver sun,
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They watched her from behind,
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as she did her bump and grind,
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Walkin' naked,
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sad and graceful for their fun.
Oh how I wished I could afford
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that lady painted white,
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A queen with high nobility of birth,
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But the more you pay,
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the more it's worth.
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My pockets hung

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Verse 3
with empty blues,
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Si lent heels were standin'
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on my growin' pains,
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My bid was not too bad,
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Em 
two bits was all I had,
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And the stable boy
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just handed me the reins.
Well the gallery went wild,
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and the auctioneer half smiled,
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What we don't sell we shoot or give away,
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'Cause the more you pay,
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the more it's worth.

Verse 4
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Em 
And where was the boy,
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Em 
who rode on her back,
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With his arms holding tight round
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her neck?
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How tightly he clung,
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When they both were young,
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And fate had not let this
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poor girl be so
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Disgraced.