Chords for Strawbs - The Life Auction - Ghosts - 1975

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_ [Am] Row upon row of drab colourless [Gm] houses,
Wine-burner with more high-rise blocks,
[Bm] Ferry-coated housewives with sweaty armpits,
[F#m] Scrambling and scumming their husbands' socks,
[Em] The limp, blotted flag [Dm] flutters sadly in his death-throes,
[Am] While crippled trees, in plague [F]-eyes, [Gm] nearly fall themselves,
Now [Bm] their pride became a sin.
_ [F#] Gay.
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[Bm] The vultures stood outside the gate, [A] quite unaware [E] [F#m] that fate
[D] Is never kind to [E] those [A] who wait [F#] in _ [G] vain,
Their pride [A] betrays the means of [G] their destruction.
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_ _ [Am] A fiery zandvich is ripe, [G] but if [Em] I'm misled,
I'll be like [C] a zandvich, gives [D] me the [E] buzz. _
_ [F] The [G] rest is yours, [F] and welcome!
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_ _ _ [A] [G] Wolves.
Gay. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] The wolves will suck the bones, they [A] moult those hollowed,
They [F#m] portray their [D] elders, always [E] having talked [Bm] them into [F#] it.
[G] Their greed explains [A] their cult of [G] agriculture.
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[Am] A fiery zandvich is [G] ripe, but if [Em] I'm misled, [C] I'll be like a zandvich, [D] gives me [E] the buzz.
_ _ [F] The rest [G] is yours, [F] and welcome! _ _ _
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_ [G] The _ _ _ _ [G#] _
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_ [E] _ _ [Bm] ocean.
The ocean is seldom [A] lost, or water [D] sometimes crossed,
But he has never [E] failed to counter [F#]-cult of passion.
_ [G] His iron [A]-tower-points of [G] _
_ _ [C] inexistence.
_ _ [Am] A fiery zandvich is ripe, [G] but if I'm [Em] misled, I'll be like a [C]
zandvich, gives [D] me the [E] buzz.
_ [F] The [G] rest is yours, [F] and welcome!
_ The rest [G] is yours, [D] and welcome! _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ Greed.
_ _ [C] Greed.
_ [Em] _ Greed.
Greed. _ _ _
[Bm] Greed is vital.
Greed is vital.
Greed [Am] _ is vital
Peace is mine, peace is mine, [D#] peace is _ _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ mine _ _ _
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[A] Now _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] you have given God to me, [C] you join the one [Am]-filed community
[F] And now you [G] find yourself [A] in need of congress
[A#] But peace of [C] mind has no [A#] hope for the _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ [A#] _ _ _ loveless
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