Pretenders to the throne (video)
G - Bm - C - G - D (2x)
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Bm
1. Is it Cologne with it’s great cathedral ?
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Milan with it’s glamour and
it’s pace ?
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London with it’s rivers and
it’s bridges ?
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G - D
Lisbon with it’s
beauty and it’s grace?
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- C G - D
Funny looking buses climb it’s
pot-bellied hills,
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and
a solitary jogger times the time he
kills.
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Do you know where I’m gonna go,
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D
none of you have guessed, so none
of you can know.
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If you’ve been, that’s not
where I mean,
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D
it’s got class and it’s got
excellence like you’ve never seen.
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+ Your town is dragging me
down,
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G - D
is
dragging me down, down, down !
G Bm
Your town is dragging me down,
C
G - D
is dragging
me down, down, down.
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3. Is it Dublin with it’s culture and it’s wit,
C
G - D
Madrid with it’s market square ?
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Paris with it’s
bustling cafes,
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Hull with it’s musical flair ?
+ CHORUS
G Bm
+ Your town is dragging me
down,
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is
dragging me down, down, down !
G Bm
Your town is dragging me down,
C
G - D
is
dragging me down, down, down.
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+ As I watch them drop the
grain into your fish tank brain,
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D D7
how
can you like this place when it never even rains ?
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- C - D
Never even rains !
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+ Your town is dragging me
down,
C
G - D
is
dragging me down, down, down !
G Bm
Your town is dragging me down,
C
G - D
is
dragging me down, down, down.
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+ Is dragging me
down, down.
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- C D
Dragging me
down, down …
(The Beautiful South)