Chords for Peter Blegvad - King Strut

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[Ab] _ [F] _ _ [Bb] King Strutt was just a baby [Eb] back in 1951.
_ [Bb] His owls woke the neighborhood.
[Ab] They had his parents done.
[Bb] For negligence or cruelty, [Cm] I forget which one.
[Gm] And the state took custody [Cm] of their sickly son.
[Eb] Would no one ever dream [F] that one day he'd become [Bb] King Strutt? _
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[F] _ _ _ [Bb] Short of temper, highly strung, [Eb] with a shadow on his lung, [Bb] King Strutt flew off the handle
[Eb] if his vanity was stunned.
[Bb] He could cut a photo piece [Cm] using nothing but his tongue [G] and a technical vocabulary [Cm] vast
for one so young.
[Eb] Throughout the Northeast Orphanage, [F] his name was widely [Bb] sung, King Strutt.
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[Ab] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] The imagination like a muscle [Eb] will increase with exercise.
[Bb] King Strutt developed it by [Eb] having dreams and telling lies.
[Bb] He'd describe a situation [Cm] or a piece of merchandise.
[Gm] He could summon it from nothing [Cm] to appear before your eyes.
[Eb] Who was that masked [F] man?
Why was he in disguise?
[Bb] _ King Strutt.
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[Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] Now a man without a moral code [Eb] is just an appetite.
King Strutt was on a diet, growing luminous by eating [Bb] light.
He'd left the institution [Cm] under cover of the night [Gm] and was looking for employment, [D] answering
to Dwight, [Eb] sleeping in a door with [F] minus 20 Fahrenheit.
[Bb] King Strutt.
His [Ab] Majesty, [Eb] _ _ [Bb] Dwight Strutt, _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Bb] had his sheltered under cardboard [Eb] above a subway fence, [Bb] and
one night took him the victim of [Eb] a suspicious accident.
[Bb] As dawn came up, he knew the [Cm] man's death was imminent.
[Gm] The man called out a number.
[Cm] King Strutt asked him what it meant.
It [Eb] meant the man had something [C] valuable he wanted to present.
[Bb] King Strutt. _
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[Ab] _ [F] _ _ Some say it was a diamond, like the crown jewel Koh-i-Noor, or a talisman empowered
by an ancient conjurer.
A hot tip or a claim check, no one knows for sure.
All we know is King Strutt [Cm] changed overnight from being [Gm] poor to being an authority, [Cm] _ philanthropist,
a [Eb] connoisseur who paid for what he wanted [F] with a simple signature.
_ [Bb] _ King [Ab] Strutt.
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[F] _ _ _ [Bb] Here he paid to have the homeless.
They [Ab] worked for him to pay their rent, [Bb] and they recruited others to [Eb] help spread his influence.
He [Bb] fed a hundred million hungry [Cm] at his own expense.
[Gm] Potent, potentates applied and [Cm] were denied an audience.
[Eb] He's got too damn many dollars, they [C] said.
Not enough [Bb] cents.
King Strutt.
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[F] _ _ _ [Bb] Though man believes his dreams are real, [Eb] he's said to be deranged.
[Bb] His dreams are compensation [Ab] for the things he cannot change.
A man can be in slavery, [Cm] he doesn't have to be in chains.
[Gm] He's waving out the window, [Bb] the infirmary's in flames.
[Eb] But instead of crying fire, he [F] pronounced the name of me. _ _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ King [Bb] Strutt. _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] King Strutt.
Strutt.
[Ab] Strutt.
_ [Bb] King Strutt. _ _
[Ab] _ [F] _ _ [Bb] King Strutt. King Strutt. _
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[F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ King _
[F] _ _ Strutt.
[Bb] _ _ King Strutt.
[Ab] _ [Eb] King Strutt. [Bb] King Strutt. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ King Strutt. King Strutt. King Strutt.
King Strutt.
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_ _ _ _ _ King Strutt. King Strutt. _
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