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POETRY IN LIFE
D                                                                             Am
1. In the farmhouse no one wakes but the owner gently shakes
D                                                                              Am
Where were all the plans you made gone like the light brigade
Bm                                                 C
But you can find the vital spark cruising round the Retail Park
Bm                                                 C
Please don’t lose your paradise opening that pay advice
B                                                    A
Kubla Khan keeps on dreaming even when kids are screaming
 
Chorus:
G                    D                      Em          C
Where are the lines of beauty now that I’m on duty
G                      D             C
Looking for the poetry in life
G                D                          Em               C
Can’t go out without a shave on where is my bard of Avon
G                      D             G   C
Looking for the poetry in life
G                      D             C
Looking for the poetry in life
 
2.The hills are covered now in pylons and you know they’ve got a file on you
Friendly bombs have fallen now - despondent on the road to Slough too
But you’ve taken all your fill of those blue remembered hills
Time to stop your heart creeping - swimmer into cleanness leaping
Count your blessings one by one - c’mon be a man my son
Chorus
Middle 8:
F                                                                                          G
Wander lonely as a cloud - float so high above the crowd of daffodils
F                                                                                      C
Leave behind the daily grind leave behind all your fizzing bitter pills
F                                                                                            Am
Bend the bars of the cage - releasing all that silent rage and winter’s chill                                                   
           D                     C                 
(That) satanic mill – is with me still
3. Where is the dark lady where is sexy Sadie now
   Lips that part with sugar breath up the line to dusty death now
   But you can put your finger on it - in that sonnet
   You can hold a moving pen scan that poem once again
   Filling out (your) tax returns hit the page like Robert Burns
 
– Ch

 

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