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Thread #15852 Message #1234078
Posted By: Mark Dowding
26-Jul-04 - 02:07 PM
Thread Name: Anybody know what happened to Peter Bond
Subject: RE: Anybody know what happened to Peter Bond
After listening to the record there's a couple of very subtle changes Basic chords added as well but there are runs going from one chord to another which is far too complicated to add here
The Baron and The Busker by Peter Bond
(G)It's the longest running (D)play of all (C)Expectant people (Am)line the wall (D7)The busker's playing tunes he used to (G)march to on par(D7)ade And (G)high above the (D)theatre queue The (C)rich man gazes (Am)at the view And (D7)thanks his Gods that he has made the (G)grade (C)Ladies chatter (Am)cheerily, (D)brandy goes around (C)The rich man draws the (Am)velevet curtain (D)shutting out the sound
Ch (G)Slow(D)ly, (G)Slowly (C)turns, (Am)Slow turns the (D7)wheel Still it (G)turns
Down below across the square Down a thousand miles of love and care The busker's bright but broken tune floats up the foggy street Now and then he takes a rest To cough the weather off his chest Or gather up the coins around his feet His hands upon the clarinet too cold to feel the keys Dance out their melancholy air of merry misery
I knew a man who used to care He sat all day in the same old chair His eyes were sunken in his face like pebbles in the snow He remembers nineteen twenty six And now we're in the same old fix Good God he'd say by now you think they'd know And like a spluttering gas lamp he slowly flickered down to die His missis understood his moods and so at last do I