Steely Dan – The Royal Scam (Guitar Intro)

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And they wandered in from the city

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Of St. John with out a

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 dime

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Wearing coats that shined both red and green

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Colors from their  sunny

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 island

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From their boats of iron they looked upon

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The promised land where surely

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 life was sweet

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On the rising tide to New York City

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Did   they ride into the

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 street

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See the glory (see the     glory  o-    -of)

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 scam

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They are hounded down to the bottom

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Of a bad town a mid the

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 ruins

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Where they learn to fear an an gry race

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Of fallen kings, their dark

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com-panions

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While the memory of their sou-thern sky

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Was clouded by the savage

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 winter

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Every patron saint hung on the wall

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Shared the room with twenty

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 sinners

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See the glory (see the     glory  o-    -of)

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 scam

|Gm7       Am7      |Em7 F/Bb      Em7 |Gm9                |E7             |
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By the blackened wall he does it all

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He thinks he's died and gone to

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 heaven

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Now the tale is told by the old man

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Back home he reads the

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 letter

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How they are paid in gold just to babble

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In the back room all night and

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 waste of time

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And they wandered in from the city

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Of St. John with out a

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 dime

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See the glory (see the     glory  o-    -of)

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 scam

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See the glory (see the     glory  o-    -of)

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 scam

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See the glory (see the     glory  o-    -of)

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 scam

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