The Traitor

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Now the Swan it floated on the 
              C
English river
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Ah the Rose of High Romance it 
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opened wide
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A sun tanned woman yearned me 
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through the summer
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and the judges watched us from the
       C
 other side

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I told my mother Mother I must 
    C
leave you
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preserve my room but do not shed a 
 C
tear
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Should rumour of a shabby ending 
F/C
reach you
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it was half my fault and half the 
    C
atmosphere

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But the Rose I sickened with a 
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scarlet fever
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and the Swan I tempted with a 
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sense of shame
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She said at last I was her finest 
F/C
lover
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and if she withered I would be to 
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blame

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The judges said you missed it by a
  C
 fraction
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rise up and brace your troops for
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 the attack
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Ah the dreamers ride against the 
      F/C
men of action
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Oh see the men of action falling 
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back

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But I lingered on her thighs a 
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fatal moment
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I kissed her lips as though I 
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thirsted still
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My falsity had stung me like a 
F/C
hornet
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The poison sank and it paralysed 
  C
my will

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I could not move to warn all the 
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younger soldiers
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that they had been deserted from 
above
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So on battlefields from here to 
        F/C
Barcelona
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I'm listed with the enemies of love

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And long ago she said I must be 
   C
leaving,
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Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
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You can move it up and down and 
        F/C
when I'm sleeping
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Run some wire through that Rose 
           C
and wind the Swan

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So daily I renew my idle duty
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I touch her here and there, I know
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 my place
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I kiss her open mouth and I praise
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 her beauty
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and people call me traitor to my 
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face