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D
A
G
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A
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D
A
G
D
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D
A
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A
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D
Bm
A
D
Bm
G
A
G
D
G
A
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D
A
Bm
G
D
A
Bm
G
A
D
A
G
D/f#
A(add9)
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A
D
A
D
A
G
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D
A
G
A
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A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
Finds a streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like, you and me babe, how about it?
Juliet says, hey it's Romeo, you nearly gimme me a heart attack
He's underneath the window, she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that
Anyway what you gonna do about it?
Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start
And I bet and you exploded in my heart
And I forget, I forget the movie song
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
Come up on different streets they both were streets of shame
Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?
Well you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything you promised me thick and thin, yeah
Now you just say oh Romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him
Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
You said, I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us, you know the movie song
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
I can't do the talk like they talk on TV
And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything, but I'd do anything for you
I can't do anything except be in love with you
And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat and bad company
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet I'd do the stars with you any time
Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
You said, I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us, you know the movie song
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade
Says something like, you and me babe, how about it?
F#m(add11)
A(add9)
F#m(add11)
E(add9)
F#m(add11)
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E|-2-----2-----2-----2-----|-2-----2------2----2-----|
A(add9)
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F#m(add11)
I am Jeremiah Dixon
F#m(add11)
I am a Geordie boy
F#m(add11)
A glass of wine with you, sir
A
D
Dmaj7/a
And the ladies I'll enjoy
E
A
D
D(add9)/a
All Durham and Northumberland
E
A
D
Dmaj7/a
Is measured up by my own hand
E
A
D
D(add9)/a
It was my fate from birth
D
E
E(add9)
To make my mark upon the earth...
He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that I was born
To chart the evening sky
They'd cut me out for baking bread
But I had other dreams instead
This baker's boy from the west country
Would join the Royal Society
A
E
F#m
D
We are sailing to Philadelphia
A
E
Bm
E
A world away from the coally Tyne
C#m
F#m
D
Sailing to Philadelphia
F#m
E
To draw the line
D
E
A(add9)
The Mason-Dixon Line
F#m(add11)
A(add9)
F#m(add11)
E(add9)
Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon
But I swear you'll make me mad
The West will kill us both
You gullible Geordie lad
You talk of liberty
How can America be free
A Geordie and a baker's boy
In the forests of the Iroquois
Now hold your head up, Mason
See America lies there
The morning tide has raised
The capes of Delaware
Come up and feel the sun
A new morning has begun
Another day will make it clear
Dmaj7
E(add9)
Why your stars should guide us here
We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coally Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
D/f#
E/g#
Bm
A/e
The Mason-Dixon Line
D
E
A(add9)
The Mason-Dixon Line
F#m(add11)
A(add9)
F#m(add11)
E(add9)
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D|-6-6-4/6-|-4^6-2--|-6-6-4/6-|-4^6-2---------|
A|-4-4-2/4-|--------|-4-4-2/4-|-------4^2^4---|
E|---------|--------|---------|---------------|
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B|-----------------|---------|-------|
G|---6---6---6---6-|---------|-------|
D|---6---6---6---6-|---6-4/6-|-4^6-2-|
A|-4---4---4---4---|-x-4-2/4-|-------|
E|-----------------|---------|-------|
So many mouths to feed on the farm
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G|---6---6---6---6-|---------|-------------|
D|---6---6---6---6-|---6-4/6-|-4^6-2-------|
A|-4---4---4---4---|-x-4-2/4-|-------4^2^4-|
E|-----------------|---------|-------------|
Sonny was the second to the last one born
His mamma ran away and his daddy beat him bad
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D|---6---6---6---6-|---6-4/6-|-4^6-2-|
A|-4---4---4---4---|-x-4-2/4-|-------|
E|-----------------|---------|-------|
And he grew up wild good love he never had
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D|---6---6---6---6-|---6---6---6---6-|
A|-4---4---4---4---|-4---4---4---4---|
E|-----------------|-----------------|
He had a left like henry's hammer
A right like betty bamalam
Rode with the muggers in the dark and dread
And all them sluggers went down like lead
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-5-4-2-------|
A|---------4-2-|
E|-------------|
Well he hung with the hoods he wouldn't stroke the fans
But he had dynamite in both his hands
Boom bam like the slammer door
The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor
Beware the bear's in town
Somebody's money says the bear's going down
Yeah, the bear never smiles
Sonny's going down for miles and miles
Sonny's going down for miles and miles
The writers didn't like him the fight game jocks
With his lowlife backers and his hands like rocks
They didn't want to have a bogey man
F#
They didn't like him and he didn't like them
Black Cadillac, alligator boots
Money in the pockets of his sharkskin suits
Some say the bear took a flop they couldn't believe it when they saw him drop
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B|-6------|-5--------|-6------|
G|-4------|-6--------|-4------|
D|-4------|-4--------|-4------|
A|--------|----------|--------|
E|--------|----------|--------|
He had a left like henry's hammer
A right like betty bamalam
Rode with the muggers in the dark and dread
And all them sluggers went down like lead
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-5-4-2-------|
A|---------4-2-|
E|-------------|
Joe Louis was his hero he tried to be the same
But a criminal child wears a ball and chain
So the civil rights people didn't want him on the throne
And the hacks and the cops wouldn't leave him alone
Beware the bear's in town somebody's money says
The bear's going down
Yeah, the bear never smiles
Sonny's going down for miles and miles
Sonny's going down for miles and miles
At the foot of his bed with his feet on the floor
There was dope in his veins and a pistol on the drawer
There was no investigation as such
He hated needles but he knew too much
F#
Criss-crossed on his back
Scars from his daddy like slavery tracks
The second-last child was the second-last king never again was it the same in the ring
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B|-6------|-5--------|-6------|
G|-4------|-6--------|-4------|
D|-4------|-4--------|-4------|
A|--------|----------|--------|
E|--------|----------|--------|
He had a left like henry's hammer
A right like betty bamalam
Rode with the muggers in the dark and dread
And all them sluggers went down like lead
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-5-4-2-------|
A|---------4-2-|
E|-------------|
They never could be sure about the day he was born
A motherless child set to working on the farm
And they never could be sure about the day he died
The bear was the king they cast aside
Beware the bear's in town
Somebody's money says the bear's going down
Yeah, the bear never smiles
Sonny's going down for miles and miles
Sonny's going down for miles and miles