Frank Turner – Eye Of The Day (Guitar)

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They called me Margaretha the day that I was born

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The day I died the soldiers called me H21

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In the circuses and palaces, a hundred names I've borne

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From the Belle of the Epoque to the eye of the storm

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But if anybody asks, I named myself after the sun

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I was a teacher when I was young

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But I ran away from home

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To the East Indies and warm, warm sun

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To wed a man I did not know

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He called me Lady MacLeod

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But the times did not allow

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My complaints as drinking dragged him down

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So in dancing peace I found

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They called me a tourist when I began to dance

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An amateur and courtesan when I came to France

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On the stages, in the salons, I held my tongue

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I was never owned by any man nor known by anyone

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And if anybody asks, I named myself after the sun

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I never cared much for their war

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I had seen men fight before

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Seen the sickness in their esprit de corps

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I would dance for them no more

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They came to take me away

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From the Hotel Champs Elysée

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Told the soldiers I've nothing to say

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They wouldn't have listened anyway

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Too many men had died, and somebody had to pay

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They set a date for my dying day

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But as I stood in that killing field, refusing a blindfold

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Staring down the soldiers and the hatred of the world

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I felt the warmth of the Malay sun and I smiled for them all

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They all thought they had the best of me

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But not one of them could say what I was called

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I am Mata Hari, eye of the day

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In the cells my body lay unclaimed

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If anybody asks, I named myself after the sun

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If anybody asks, I named myself after the sun