Lyrics of a song Graham Parker - WHEN I WAS KING

Capo at 2    INTRO: ??

 

G            G         C             Em

When I was King I was not really the man I am now 

G             Am            G                C

I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china

G            G         C        Em

When I was king I had already abdicated 

C          Am              G      C

Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap 

C

But they'd run the first run of stamps 

D                            G

People had cashed in their post office savings 

   C              D                  C

To buy some and lick the back of my neck 

 (C)                               D               

I just let them get on with it  arrange the coronation 

  G                       C              

I just didn't turn up,  I just didn't turn up

 

You became Queen to a regime of fixed ideas 

The subjects just outlines like figures in a shadow cabinet 

And then we ruled over some green and pleasant land 

With a frog and a princess not necessarily in that order

 

But if you want it to be  What you want it to be 

You'll have to dethrone me or have me decapitated 

I didn't want to be King anyway  I always preferred to hang out 

with the servants, the servants

    When I was King

When I was King there was no country left to rule 

Jesters and fools were leaders all of them a royal pain 

Now I'm a serf but I'm still trying to be a king 

But putting the crown on is like  putting a silk purse on a sow's ear 

And if I want it to be Like I want it to be 

I'll have to assassinate someone  with a guitar as a gun 

On it's good to be King  I know that I've been there 

                                 G    G

Many, many, many, many kingdoms ago When I was King

 

Repeat when I when I over G and C

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