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Verse 1
(C major) (F major) (C major) There lived a king,
as I've been told,
In the (F major) wonder -working (G major) days of old,
When (C major) hearts were twice as good as gold,
And twenty (G major) times as mellow.
Good temper triumphed in his (D major) face,
And in his (G major) heart he found a (D major) place
For (G major) all the erring (B major) human race,
And every wretched fel (E major) low.
When (D major) he had rainish wine to drink,
It made him (A major) very (D major) sad to think
And some man, (G major) younger or edgier,
must (D major) be content with (G major) Tawdy.
With Tawdy,
(F major) must (G major) be content with Tawdy.
He (C major) wished all men as rich as he,
and (F major) he was rich as (G major) rich could be.
So to the (C major) top of every tree
pro (F major) moted every (C major) body.
Now there's a (G major) kind of (C major) king for me,
they wished all men as (G major) rich as he.
Sell to the (F major) top of every tree,
promote everybody.
(C major) Lord chancellors were cheap as frats,
and (G major) bishops in their (C major) shovel hat (G major) s,
But (C major) plentiful as tabby cats,
in point of (G major) fact too many.
Ambassadors cropped up like (D major) hay,
prime ministers (G major) and sergeants (D major) they,
Grew (G major) like asparagus in (C major) May,
and (B major) dukes were three a (E major) penny.
On every (D major) side field, marsh,
or stream,
Spore beer were lords left ten and dim,
With apparels the (G major) ocean teemed
All (D major) round his white (G major) dominions.
With apparels all round his
white dominions.
And (C major) party leaders you might meet
In twos and (G major) threes in every street,
Maintaining with no (F major) little heat
Their various opinion (C major) s.
Now there's a (G major) sight you (C major) couldn't fit
Two party leaders (G major) in each street
Maintaining (F major) with no little gift
Their various opin (C major) ions
That King, al (G major) though no one denies
(C major) His heart (G major) was of abnormal size
Yet he'd (C major) have acted otherwise
If he had (G major) been a cuter
The end is easily fore (D major) told
When (G major) every blessed thing you hold
is made of silver or of (E major) gold,
you'll (B major) long for simple (E major) pewter.
When you have (D major) nothing else to wear
but cloth of gold and satins rare,
for (G major) cloth of gold, you cease to care.
Up (D major) goes the price of (G major) shoddy.
Of shoddy,
up goes the (D major) price of (G major) shoddy.
In short, (C major) whoever you may be,
to (F major) this conclusion,
(G major) you'll agree,
(C major) when everyone is (F major) somebody,
Then no one's anybody.
(C major) Now that's as (G major) plain as (C major) pain can be.
To this conclusion we (G major) agree.
When every (F major) one is somebody,
Then no one's anybody.
(C major) (G major)
There Lived A King
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