Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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It was
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through a YM CA concert
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I craved a desire for the stage.
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In Flanders one night,
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I was asked to recite Gadzooks.
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They said I was better than Irving,
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and gave me some biscuits and tea.
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I know it's not union wages,
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Home I came, bought a dress,
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appeared in your theatre,
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and what a success!
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I acted so tragic,
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the house rose like magic,
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the audience yelled, you're sublime!
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They made me a present
of mornings and crescent,
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they threw it a brick at
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a time.
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Someone threw a fender,
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tried to surrender.
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They jeered me, they queered me,
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and half of them stoned me to death.
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They threw nuts and sultanas,
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fried eggs and bananas,
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Macbeth.
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to Bill Shakespeare,
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to me lacked both polish and tone.
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So I put in bits in from Mis
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s Eleanor Glynn,
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The band played the Barber of Savile,
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where in Scotland,
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and finished in Newington Butts.
Oh, the flowers!
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They threw it in bagfuls,
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self -raising in yeast.
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the house rose like magic.
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I improved the part with a dance.
so R .A .M .C. chaps
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Were wired to come back from France
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I withdrew my sabre an
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d started to labour
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I hollered, I'm collared,
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I must reach the bridge or it's death
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But they altered my journey,
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I reached the infirmary,
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the night I ap peared as Macbeth.
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The ad vertised time for the curtain
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was 6 .45 on the sheet.
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The hall came for he,
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We played the first act in the street
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And somebody called for the author
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The news caused an awful commotion
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And gave me the shock of my life
Shakespeare dead?
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Why, I never knew
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the poor fellow was ill.
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I acted so tragic,
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the house rose like magic.
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could see.
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I should be.
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The King of the Bel gians
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They pleaded, I'm heeded
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An d all of them cried in one breath
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There's another war coming
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If you don't stop humming
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The night I appeared as Macbeth
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