G Bm C D
G Bm C D

[Verse 1]
G        Bm         C            D
In Recognition of a 100 million album sales
G        Bm         C            D
In Recognition of your popularity
G             Bm               C                D
You take your gaudy prize from people you said you despised
G             Bm           C                G
You wear your self-respect upon your bended knee

[Chorus]
    C       D         G
In spite of all your claims
    C                D        G
It looks like you're just the same
   C            Cm         Bm            Em
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C         D           G
Before or after their name

[Verse 2]
G        Bm            C              D
In Recognition of your service to the working class
G        Bm            C          D
In Recognition of your party loyalty
G           Bm              C                D
You get an ermine robe and you declare when you are probed
G         Bm            C               G
You only took it so the missus would be pleased

[Chorus]
    C       D         G
In spite of all your claims
    C                D        G
It looks like you're just the same
   C            Cm         Bm            Em
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C         D           G
Before or after their name

[Bridge]
Bm      Em
Ohhhhhh Vanity
C                D
It gets them one by one
Bm            Em
Patronage and Monarchy
C                    D
And all they entail, rarely frail

[Verse 3]
G        Bm            C          D
In Recognition of your bravery up on the stage
G        Bm            C        D
In Recognition of your bankability
G          Bm                 C                 D
You get to wait in line with soldiers crippled by land mines
G             Bm                  C            G
And you think it's the yanks that don't get irony

[Chorus]
    C       D         G
In spite of all your claims
    C                D        G
It looks like you're just the same
   C            Cm         Bm            Em
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C         D           G
Before or after their name

[Chorus]
    C       D         G
In spite of all your claims
    C                D        G
It looks like you're just the same
   C            Cm         Bm            Em
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C         D           G
Before or after their name

G     Bm   C  D
Their name
G     Bm   C  D
Their name
G     Bm   C  D
Their name