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G G C Em

When I was King I was not really the man I am now

G Am G C

I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china

G G C Em

When I was king I had already abdicated

C Am G C

Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap

C

But they'd run the first run of stamps

D G

People had cashed in their post office savings

C D C

To buy some and lick the back of my neck

(C) D

I just let them get on with it arrange the coronation

G C

I just didn't turn up, I just didn't turn up



You became Queen to a regime of fixed ideas

The subjects just outlines like figures in a shadow cabinet

And then we ruled over some green and pleasant land

With a frog and a princess not necessarily in that order



But if you want it to be What you want it to be

You'll have to dethrone me or have me decapitated

I didn't want to be King anyway I always preferred to hang out

with the servants, the servants

When I was King

When I was King there was no country left to rule

Jesters and fools were leaders all of them a royal pain

Now I'm a serf but I'm still trying to be a king

But putting the crown on is like putting a silk purse on a sow's ear

And if I want it to be Like I want it to be

I'll have to assassinate someone with a guitar as a gun

On it's good to be King I know that I've been there

G G

Many, many, many, many kingdoms ago