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Thread #174480 Message #4230741
Posted By: Mr Red
28-Oct-25 - 05:37 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Chase the dragon Keith Hancock
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chase the dragon Keith Hancock
How [C] many more [F] young lives will be squandered [Bb] as youth [Dm] turns on [C] to a dream? _ _ _ [Bb] _ How much [C] longer will [F] deaf ears be turned, _ [Bb] _ refusing to [Dm] hear [C] their screams? _ _ And [Bb] how [C] long must I sit [F] and watch my friends [Bb] die [F] while society sits on [C] the fence? _ _ [Bb] We have to [C] step in [F] and fight for our children, [Bb] who need [C] more than love in [F] a sense. _ _ _ _ [Bb] We have to warn them, [Gm] [F] white powder will scald them, [Bb] we must _ understand they [F] are under [Am] attack. [Bb] Don't try to deceive it, [F] you'd better believe it, [Bb] when you're chasing a dragon, [F] the dragon fights _ [Bb] back. _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] They offered [C] it all, [F] the uppers and downers, [Bb] did you have [Dm] the strength to [C] refuse? _ _ _ [Bb] In boozes [C] and discos [F] from London to Frisco, [Bb] some win, some break [D] even, [C] some lose. _ _ [Bb] And as your [C] friends are gone, [F] and his senses [Bb] were numb, did [F] you try hard to see [C] what he'd allowed? _ _ _ [Bb] For in ten [C] years time, [F] when he's dead and buried, _ [Bb] find you [C] the time to [F] look back. _ _ _ _ [Bb] You could have warned him, [F] white powder would scald him, [Bb] but you [Gm] understood he [F] was under attack. [Bb] Don't try to deceive it, [F] you'd better believe it, [Bb] when you're chasing a dragon, [G] the dragon fights [F] back. _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ Did [Bb] you look in [C] the sky for [F] your _ elephant's eye? [Bb] Did the warmth come [Dm] that would make you [C] feel good? _ _ _ [Bb] Didn't [C] newspaper taxis [F] appear on your shore, [Bb] as the poison [Dm] cursed into your [C] bullet? _ _ Can you [Bb] find any [C] glamour [F] in the nooses [Bb] who clamour round [F] your bed, like the snowman [C] had said? _ _ _ [Bb] When your left [C] hand's gone and your [F] right soon to follow, [Bb] do you wish [C] you had died there _ [F] instead? _ _ _ _ [Bb] I should have warned you, [F] white powder would scorn you, [Bb] for I understood you [F] were under attack. [Bb] Don't try to deceive it, [F] you'd better _ believe it, [Bb] when you're chasing a dragon, [F] the dragon fights back. _ [Bb] We have to warn them, [F] white powder will scorn them, [Bb] we must understand they [F] are under attack. [Bb] Don't try to deceive it, you'd [F] better believe it, [Bb] when you're chasing a dragon, _ [F] the dragon _ [C] fights _ _ [F] back. _
My favourite of Keith's is "Le Petomane" (abut the Famous French farter!)