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