E   E

[VERSE 1]
A              D        A
What possessed you to apply,
                                    E
Did your friends with good advice implode?
A                  D     A
We should hang you up in chains
                                 E
Let you rot beside the ill paved road.
B
Born too late for the First World War;
                                     E       D
The Siege of Troy was long before my time.
B                                                        E    D C B7 E
Naseby, Jutland, Agincourt; characters perhaps from pantomime.

[VERSE 2]

A               D          A                                    E
Authors, sport, landlocked states; capitals of Europe and their size.
A              A      A                                         E
Breeds of dog; famous dates, kind of hoping these things don’t arise.
  B
I don’t watch films in black and white
                                              E      D
The trees and clouds and birds have passed me by.
B
I’ll just guess and hope I’m right
                                     E     D C B7  E D C B7  E
The first man into space was Captain Bligh.

[BDA K]

B                                                  E
 Good luck back in work, they’ll’ve heard you were on
B                                          E
 Have you got the file for Mr Out In Round One?
B                             E
 Harken a cuckoo - or is it a wren?
B                                E      D     E
 Don’t ever darken our doorstep again..........

[VERSE 3]

A                D      A                                              E
Truth is beauty, beauty truth, all you know on earth – all you need to know.
A      D   A                                       E
Superb, succinct, pity then for you it’s not quite so.
B                                                         E   D
Hickstead, Hickstead, Hickstead, Hickstead? Duck soup, 1933.
B
Words beginning with K N O,
                          E  D  C  B7
Words that end in B H E A D...........

[OUTRO]

E  D  C  B7
E  D  C  B7
E  D  C  B7  E