The Greatest Living Englishman
- Martin Newell
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{name: Intro}
A#5 A#5+7 A#5 A#5+7
{name: Verse 1}
D G C F
Liberty bags and pink carnations and whistle from Saville Row
D G C F
I measured my life in invitations but it seems a long time ago
{name: Pre-Chorus}
Esus4 Dsus4 F
Ah some you win some you lose
Esus4/A Dsus4/G F
I never had those guilty blues
{name: Chorus}
F#m A/E D A/C# Bm7
How they'd love to see me now - a prisoner in the tower
G G/A A
I was the greatest living Englishman
F#m A/E D A/C# Bm7
Debts but very few regrets up in the misty minarets
G G/A A
I was the greatest living Englishman
{name: Verse 2}
D G C F
It's such a long way from barrowboy up to position of Doctor Gas
D G C F
But with a good spiel and a decent ploy you'll spin media hype from trash
{name: Pre-Chorus}
Esus4 Dsus4 F
Ah well we were the coming men
Esus4/A Dsus4/G F
and there was so much money then
{name: Chorus}
F#m A/E D A/C# Bm7
How they'd love to see me now - a prisoner in the tower
G G/A A
I was the greatest living Englishman
F#m A/E D A/C# Bm7
High, enough to wonder why - it would have been mad not to try
G G/A A
To be the greatest living Englishman
{name: Break}
A#5 A#5+7
Such a long way..ay..ay..ayyy..
{name: Verse 3}
D G C F
They tell me I was a social animal the way the champagne was splashed
D G C F
The warning light only showed on cannibal the day that my empire crashed
{name: Pre-Chorus}
Esus4 Dsus4 F
Ah some you win some you lose
Esus4/A Dsus4/G F
I never had those guilty blues
{name: Chorus}
F#m A/E D A/C# Bm7
How they'd love to see me now - a prisoner in the tower
G G/A A
I was the greatest living Englishman
F#m A/E D A/C# Bm7
High, enough to wonder why - it would have been mad not to try
G G/A A
To be the greatest living Englishman
{name: Outro}
F#m A/E D A/C# Bm7
How they'd love to see me now - a prisoner in the tower
G5
I was the the greatest living
G5/F
the greatest living
G5/E A A#5 A#5dim A#5 A#5dim A#5 A#5dim
the greatest living English...man ...rpt to fade