The Sound of North America chords by The Beautiful South
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Ginger Elvis Presley looked a fraction sad
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Roaming the whole town from bin to bin
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Well living on the streets wasn't
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all that bad
Where no-one seemed seemed
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to know that he was King
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Verse 2
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The sound of New York City
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Isn't police sirens wailing
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It's the sound of Wall Street tills
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Whilst everyone is failing
Verse 3
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Sometimes you feel expensive
Sometimes you feels so cheap
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You can roam the streets a King
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Whilst everyone's asleep
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You can mime to any record
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With a hairbrush or a spoon
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But God help the singer out of
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Verse 4
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A crippled Mohammad Ali
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Looked at bad luck in the mirror
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Bad luck looked back at him and sighed
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He looked a good foot smaller
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And a couple of stone thinner
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And if anyone came toward him
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He would hide
Verse 5
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The sound of North America
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Isn't Christians quietly praying
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It's the sound of shuffling feet
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That don't know where
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they're going
Verse 6
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Sometimes you feel expensive
Sometimes you feels so cheap
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You can roam the streets a King
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Whilst everyone's asleep
You can fight with anybody
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With a glimmer of a chance
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But God help the boxer with no
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Verse 7
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A homeless Greta Garbo
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Moves across the street
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The moonlight shining clearly
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Through her skirt
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A real life living legend
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That no-one wants wants to meet
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And that's when being Garbo
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Really hurts
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York"
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May have Frank Sinatra singing
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But the rhythm and the melody
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Were dead black men swinging
Verse 9
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Sometimes you feel expensive
Sometimes you feels so cheap
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You can roam the streets a Queen
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Whilst everyone's asleep
You can act with anybody
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From the cradle to the crypt
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But God help the actress
Outro 1
Who doesn't know the script
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The Sound of North America
The Beautiful South
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