Frank Turner – Long Live The Queen (Guitar)

A (muted strums) A (muted strums) A (muted strums) A (muted strums)
Continue the muted strum technique in the verses.

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I was sipping on a Whiskey when I got the call

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Yeah my friend Lex was lying in the hospital

       Bm
She'd been pretty sick for about half a year

         E
But it seems liked this time the end was drawing near

      A
So dropped my plans and jumped the next London train

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I found her laid up and in a lot of pain

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Her eyes met mine and then I understood

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That the weather forecast wasn't looking too good

      A
So I sat and spun her stories for a little while

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Tried to raise her mood and tried to raise a smile

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But she silenced all my rambling with a shake of her head

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Drew me close and listen this is what she said now

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"You'll live to dance another day, 

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it's just now you'll have to dance, for the two of us,

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so stop looking so damn depressed 

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and sing with all your heart 

           E
that the Queen is dead"

          A
Yeah she told me she was sick of all the hospital food

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And of doctors, distant relatives, draining her blood

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She said "I know I'm dying, but I'm not finished just yet, 

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I am dying for a drink and for a cigarette"

        A
So we hatched a plan to book ourselves a cheap hotel

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In the centre of the City and to raise some Hell

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They waste to all the clubs and then when everyone else is long asleep

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We know we're good and done

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"You'll live to dance another day, 

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it's just now you'll have to dance, for the two of us,

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so stop looking so damn depressed 

     Bm
and sing with all your heart 

           E       Bm
that the Queen is dead"

E                              Bm 
   And South London's not the same anymore

E               Bm   
   The Queen is dead,    

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   and the last of the great has finally gone to bed

             A
Well I was working on some words when Sarah called me up

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She said that Lex had gone asleep and wasn't waking up

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And even though I knew that there was nothing to be done

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I felt bad for not being there and now, well, she was gone

      A
So I tried to think what Lex would want me to do

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At times like this when I was feeling blue

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So I gathered up some friends to spread the sad sad news

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And we headed to the City for a drink or two

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   "We live to dance another day, 

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it's just now we have to dance for one more of us, 

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   so stop looking so damn depressed, 

     Bm
and sing with all our hearts, 

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long live the Queen"