Audience With The Man

A B E E

[Verse 1]
E
You lead the lost sheep up to the 
mountain
E                                
You tell them everything's gonna be 
F#m
OK
          A            B          
With that old familiar smile that 
            E
everybody's seen

[Verse 2]
E
There's a million or more if you're 
counting
E                                 
And they're waiting for words but 
       F#m
you've nothing to say
          A            B          
It's that old familiar sting where
             E
 everybody's clean

[Chorus]
B                         
You start mumbling, they're 
              A                 
applauding, everyone's screaming 
        E
your name
B                             
There's a rumbling while you're 
              A                    
lording it, everyone's watching 
    E
your game
        F#m              B
There's little now to be said for 
this
        F#m                    A
Oh, you know we've done all we can
So everyone's waiting for an 
B             E          E
audience with the man

[Verse 3]
E
We've gone from Shakespeare, Dickens
 and Churchill
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E                          F#m
We've had Nixon, Napoleon, Kennedy 
too
                  A            B  
They all had that old familiar 
                  E
smile that everybody knows

[Verse 4]
E
How the West was won is a legend
E                                
But how the Empire fell is known 
F#m
only to the few
               A       B     
It's like that old rodeo where 
           E
anything goes

[Chorus 2]
B                             
It's a night-out but a wipe-out 
         A                       E
'cause Mary's gone mislaid the sheep
B                                 
You're still talking but only to 
            A                      
the walking, dead 'cause they've 
      E
all gone asleep
        F#m              B
There's little now to be said for 
this
        F#m                    A
Oh, you know we've done all we can
And so everyone's waiting for an 
B                 E
audience with the man

[Middle 8]
Am                 G             
Pa talks like it's politics, 
    Em
claims: "the Pope's a friend of 
mine"
Am                           G   
Ma's in the chapel preaching fear
                   B
 of the Lord while junior's 
committing a crime
So everything is fine

[Solo]
E E F#m F#m A B E E

[Chorus 3]
B                            
You go for a night-out, it's a 
                          A        
regular wipe-out 'cause Mary's gone
            E
 lost the sheep
B                                 
You, you're still talking but only
                 A                 
 to the walking, dead 'cause 
           E
they've all gone asleep
            F#m              B
So, there's little now to be said 
for this
        F#m                    A
Oh, you know we've done all we can
And so everyone's waiting for an 
B                 E
audience with the man

[Solo]
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E

[Other]
           A              B       
Everyone's waiting for an audience
          E
 with the big big man
           A              B       
Everyone's waiting for an audience
          E
 with the big big man
           A              B       
Everyone's waiting for an audience
          E
 with the big big man
           A              B       
Everyone's waiting for an audience
          E
 with the big big man