The Queen Is Dead - 2017 Master

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(Oh! Take me back to dear old Blighty)
 (Put me on the train for London Town)
 (Take me anywhere, drop me anywhere)
 (Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham)
 (But I don't care, I should like to see)
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 (By land, by sea)
 Farewell to this land's cheerless marshes
 Hemmed in like a boar between arches
 Her very Lowness with her head in a sling
 I'm truly sorry, but it sounds like a wonderful thing
 
 I say Charles don't you ever crave
 To appear on the front of the Daily Mail
 Dressed in your Mother's bridal veil?
 Ooh, ooh-oh, ooh
 And so I checked all the registered historical facts
 And I was shocked into shame to discover
 How I'm the 18th pale descendent
 Of some old queen or other
 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
 I swear to God, I swear I never even knew what drugs were
 Ooh, ooh-oh, ooh
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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"
 I said, "That's nothing, you should hear me play piano"
 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
 No one talks about castration, ooh, ooh-oh, ooh
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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, ooh-ooh
 These are the things that kill me
 We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
 And talk about precious things
 But the rain that flattens my hair, ooh
 These are the things that kill me
 All those lies about makeup and long hair, they're still there
 Passed the pub that saps your body
 And the church who'll snatch your money
 The Queen is dead, boys
 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
 

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Duration
06:24
Key
4
Tempo
141 BPM

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