The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (Ukulele)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: Lee Eugene T <[email protected]> Subject: CRD: THE QUEEN IS DEAD - THE SMITHS THE QUEEN IS DEAD (6.24) INTRO: F G F#m F

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Farewell to this land's cheerless marches

hemmed in like a boar between arches her very Lowness with her head in a sling

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I'm truly sorry but it sounds like a wonderful thing

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I say Charles don't you ever crave

to appear on the front of the Daily Mail

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dressed in your Mother's bridal veil?

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And so I checked all the registered historical facts

and I was shocked into shame to discover how I'm the 18th pale descendent

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of some old queen or other

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Oh has the world changed, or have I changed?

oh has the world changed, or have I changed? some nine year old tough who peddles drugs

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I swear to God, I swear I never even knew what drugs were

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So I broke into the Palace

with a sponge and a rusty spanner she said: "Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing"

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I said: "that's nothing - you should hear me play piano"

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We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry

and talk about precious things but when you are tied to your mother's apron

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no-one talks about castration

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We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry

and talk about precious things like love and law and poverty

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these are the things that kill me

(same as above) We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry and talk about precious things but the rain that flattens my hair these are the things that kill me

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Passed the pub that saps your body

and the church who'll snatch your money

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the Queen is dead, boys

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and it's so lonely on a limb

Pass the pub that wrecks your body and the church, all they want is your money the Queen is dead, boys and it's so lonely on a limb

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Life is very long, when you're lonely

life is very long, when you're lonely life is very long, when you're lonely life is very long, when you're lonely