Key: Bb major
Intro 1
A
D
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D
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D
Verse 1
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D
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Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble
E
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Ancient footprints are everywhere
D
A
You can almost think
D
A
that you're seein' double
E
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On a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs
Chorus 1
E
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Got to hurry on back to my hotel room
E
Where I got me a date
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With a pretty little girl from Greece
She promised she'd be there with me
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When I paint my masterpiece
Interlude 1
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D
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D
Oh, the hours we'd
Verse 2
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spend
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inside the Coliseum
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Dodging lions and wastin' time
D
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Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle
D
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I could hardly stand to see 'em
E
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Yes, it sure has been a long, hard climb
Chorus 2
E
Train wheels are runnin'
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through the back of my memory
E
When I ran on the hilltop
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Following a pack of wild geese
Someday, everything is gonna sound
A
like a rhapsody
E
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When I paint my masterpiece
Bridge 1
Dm
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Sailing 'round the world in a dirty gondola
C#m
D
E
D
Oh, to be back in the land of Coca Cola
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G#
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(Well, I left)
Verse 3
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D
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Rome and landed in Brussels
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On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried
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Clergymen in uniform
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and young girls pullin' muscles
E
Everyone was there to greet me
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when I stepped inside
Chorus 3
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Newspapermen eating candy
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Had to be held down by big police
But someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
E
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When I paint that masterpiece
Outro 1
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D
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[Repeat and fade}
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