Audience With The Man

Steve Harley

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  • F#m
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Key:
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] E E E A x 4
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
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