Johnny Flynn – The Landlord (Guitar)

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I met the landlord, I kept my soul

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And in of a man he was ashen and coal

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Spoke quick, confusing, burdened me up

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Left me for hollow when he'd had his sup

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   I bore all his load til the day that we met

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And one glimpse of you bent the load from my fret

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To my frown, to my stern, and then rocking me by

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And a game and a cheer, on the earth, in the sky

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So said I to the landlord

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   "I'll not see thee here"

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   And I'll wait for his answer

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Til the load wasn't there and it never had been

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And all was before was so distant a dream

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Til I saw in my friend what had once been my foe

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And the terrible landlord had all in his tow

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     In his wake and the call of his burning black ship

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And the wind it was blown from his proud blackened lips

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And I with my bellows cast clouds through the sky

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So that his awful flames, they might moisten and die

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      And then I with a light shone on that which was there

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As in light I did nothing, as in days I did fare

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And so days in my ears and days all around

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Proving death to the landlord and all he abounds

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And the night she shone, too, until all that was now

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Had been hoisted for viewing in all of the crowd

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I was glad in the light that crept twixt new and old

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And then polished with all, and so tender so bold

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     So said I to the landlord

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"I'll not see thee here"

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  And I'll wait for his answer

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  So meek in that moment, thee in error til all

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Of my friends and their friends saw in joy their loads fall

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They fell in they fell out, they fell near they fell far

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They gave all in a shout and put all to the stars

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Lifting them as one load, such a burdensome thing

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Troubling nothing that lives now, no and nothing it seems

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Nothing that dances, nothing that's moved

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In the old spinning circle of all that we proved

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    So said I to the landlord

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   "I'll not see thee here"

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And I'll wait for his answer

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    So said I to the landlord

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   "I'll not see thee here"

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And I'll wait for his answer

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  Though I wake in fear