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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 When I was King

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