Tonart: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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There once was a bad king
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For running his kingdom
right into the ground
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But the will of the people
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So into the castle a new king did ride
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The friends of the old king
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could not understand
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Why peace and prosperity
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But the old king's horseshit
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and the old king's friends
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Couldn't restore him to
power again
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Couldn't restore him to power
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again
Now the son of the old king
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was a white -knuckled drunk.
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Everything that he touched
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He was drunker and dumber
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than the most common folk.
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Everything that he said come out as joke.
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The old king said, Your Majesty,
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I've got a request, sir.
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Would you employ my son
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as the kingdom's court jester?"
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But the truth was the old king
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an d all of his friends
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Were itching to get back
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in power again.
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Itching to get back in power again.
The new king considered the
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And, to be fair,
the new king was quite fond of jest
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So, with malice towards none,
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To the son of the old king
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to ease the transition
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The loudest and dumbest
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And sing that the new king
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But the old king's horseshit
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and the old king's friends
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would soon tip the balance of power again,
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soon tip the balance of
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power again.
The first day the jester
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showed up with a grin,
but he didn't tell jokes,
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he played to the crowd's
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and accused disbelievers
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of downright sedition.
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He lied, and he laughed,
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and much mud he did sling
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Till the crowd just went crazy
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The old king's horse shed
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and the old king's friends
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Had swindled the people and
come back again
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Swindled the people and
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come back again
The jester declared war
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Then he went off on one
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long extended vacation,
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He looted the treasure for
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what it was worth,
Even destroyed that stone
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that said peace on earth.
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Miles of wilderness were
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While rhetoric and hate
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The jester king's horseshit
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and the jester king's friends
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were filling the kingdom
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with foul air again.
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Killing the kingdom with foul
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air again.
But far to the south,
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the storm clouds did gather.
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People detected a change
in the weather.
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This hot air you're spewing
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has started to fester
Where is our savior?
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Where is the jester?
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But the Jester King laughed
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as the people made haste
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The soft black underbelly
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of the kingdom laid waste
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The Jester King's horseshit
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and the Jester King's friends
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Couldn't put things back
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Couldn't put things back
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together again.
The bodies were floating,
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the levee was breached.
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The gates of the kingdom
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to those that would rule.
A kingdom can't last
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at the hands of a fool.
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And the people's blind trust
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in a God that would save them
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Works the best when they use the brain
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The Jester King's horse shit
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and the Jester King's friends
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Made sure that they'd never
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Made sure that they'd never
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taste freedom again
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