Lordly Nightshade

F C F C Dm F C G7 C

[Verse 1]
F
Captured by Hitler with Oliver Twist
 in the tower
            C                      
Guards say: "Here's pens and paper,
                               F
 just sit down and work for an hour"
   C                               
O, Goodness, how can we escape? But
               Dm
 it's not worthwhile
F           C
  All I can do is smile.

[Bridge]
     Em                            
Down gallons of glandular corridors
             Bm
 of the dark castle
The pompous old bellman is tolling 
    G Dm
one bell

[Verse 2]
F                                 
At bathtime the hippies in chains 
                      F
they are crossing the hall
      C                            
Where Hitler is making his new film
          F
 about it all
   C                               
We slip trough a pew and escape but
              Dm
 I just don't know
Continúa después del anuncio
F           C
  All I can do is grow

[Chorus]
D       G          C
Tell me more, what then

[Verse 3]
     F                    
Down Main Street I go on a 
                       F
duffel-coat hoping instead
      C                        
For a little room, yawn, I'm so 
tired with this big bag of coal on 
    F
my head
       C                           
It's a top hat I'm trying to sell 
              Dm
or a lesson to learn
F                      C
  Vaguely seeking some fire to burn

[Bridge]
        Em                         
While a group of middle-aged 
                    Bm           
persons with dwarfish expressions 
and tinned conversations in Sunday 
   G Dm
blessed blue

[Verse 4]
F                                 
Standing around for a photograph, 
             F
watch the cuckoo
       C                           
Do you need any coal? But it 
                   F
doesn't appear that they do
       C                           
Then I offered my throat to the 
                   Dm
wolf but I just can't die
F           C
  All I can do is fly

[Instrumental]
F C F C Dm F C G7 C

[Chorus]
D       G          C
Tell me more, what then

[Verse 5]
F                                 
Safe and secure in the skirts of 
             F
the midsummer wood
        C                        
Cooking soup with stale words and 
                             F
fresh meanings it tastes so good
          C                        
The green wolf with his bunch of 
                     Dm
red roses is slinking away
F                    C
  All on a summer's day.