Barenaked Ladies – The Township Of King (Guitar)

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As recorded by the Barenaked Ladies (From the 2017 Album FAKE NUDES) [Intro] (harmonics) D [Verse 1]
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She's lived alone in a little home

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By the Township of King

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    In the morning she'd feed the birds

    Bm     A       G
And listen to them sing

D
  From the woods they flock to her

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Knowing she would do no harm

D
   Flying over the patchwork quilt

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Of the fields and the farms

C         G         D
  Of the fields and farms,

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oh yeah
D D D G [Verse 2]
D
  Then one day a yellow bird

Bm     A      G
Landed on her hand

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Devoted, it sang to her

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So that she could understand

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It warned of the trucks coming up the road

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Full of concrete and steel

D
  Come to cut down all the trees

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And pave over the field
C G Bm
      D  D D G
Oh oh oh
[Chorus]
Bm      A         G          D
  Come come, the sky is grey

Bm     A           Em     A
  Come come, we'll find a way
[Verse 2]
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  They were building an amusement park

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Where the forest once did stand

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With gypsum built a mountain

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And they'll call it Wonderland

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  I will feed you and care for you

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Until you are strong and tall

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  And I will climb upon your back

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And we'll fly away in the fall

C              G  Bm
  We'll fly away,

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fly away
[Chorus]
Bm     A         G          D
  Come come, the sky is grey

Bm     A           Em     A
  Come come, we'll find a way
[Verse 3]
D
  Then one day they flew away

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And it was the strangest thing

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To watch them all fly as she waved goodbye

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To the Township of King

C        G           Bm
  To the Township of King,

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oh yeah
[Outro] D D D G D D D Bm G