Half Man Half Biscuit – This Leaden Pall (Guitar)

         F       C
It’s the year 2163

        F                        C
Chester Barnes is risen from the dead

         F                            C
And he’s coming round to creosote the fence

    F                             C
And I for one feel Spartan and monastic.

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As the drama unfolds on the lawn

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There’s a wager between the staff and me

     F                                C
That Barnsey can’t complete the job before

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I take my final Stannah up the stairs to the stars.

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Papal entourage give us a song, papal entourage give us a song

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Papal entourage give us a song, papal entourage give us a song, sssh….

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Granddaughter doesn’t wanna know

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Ever since she got into the charts

F                        C
Ask her what perfume she wears

      F                   C
“Self-Righteous” by Anita Roddick.

    F                         C
The doctor overrates me in my room

    F                      C
And with the regularity of doom

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A geezer with a double-necked guitar

          F                               C      Bb
Comes and tells me Tales from Topographic Oceans.

G          D    C         D     G          D              C    D
Papal entourage give us a song, papal entourage give us a song

G          D    C         D     G          D              C    D
Papal entourage give us a song, papal entourage give us a song.

G          D    C         D     G          D              C    D
Papal entourage give us a song, papal entourage give us a song

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Papal entourage give us a song, papal entourage give us a song, sssh….