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[Verse]
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I speak the king's English
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I kneel in is chapel
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I face 40 lashes for stealing is apples
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I live in his tavern die in his field
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Drink to his health and the turn of the wheel
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Michael's my name I was born in this
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Clatter 25 years As if nothing's the matter
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It's hard to become very much of a man
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You've been walking around with your head in your hands
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I speak the king's English
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I kneel in is chapel
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I face 40 lashes for stealing is apples
D D D F F F
I live in his tavern die in his field
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Drink to his health and the turn of the wheel
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Don't mind the rattle of coin in my pocket
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But I'd sooner buy my
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Dear Rosie a locket
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Then leave this old countryside dry to the bone
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Pour me another one heres to the throne
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I speak the king's English
G G
I kneel in is chapel
G G G G
I face 40 lashes for stealing is apples
D D D F F F
I live in his tavern die in his field
G G G G
Drink to his health and the turn of the wheel
Hey hey
[Instrumental]
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D D D
F F F
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Up on a hill In a castle of stone
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A withered old man lies sleeping alone
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While I'm at the bar with my rose on my knee
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I know which one of us I'd rather be
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I speak the king's English
G G
I kneel in is chapel
G G G G
I face 40 lashes for stealing is apples
D D D F F F
I live in his tavern die in his field
G G G G
Drink to his health and the turn of the wheel
G G
I speak the king's English
G G
I kneel in is chapel
G G G G
I face 40 lashes for stealing is apples
D D D F F F
I live in his tavern die in his field
G G G G
Drink to his health and the turn of the wheel
