Em
B7
Em
B7
Em
G
Am
Bb7
B7
Em
B7
Em
B7
I wish you’d known me when I was alive,
G
Em
C
D
I was a funny feller.
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B7
C
B7
The crowd would hoot and holler for more,
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B7
C
B7
I wore a drunk’s red nose for applause
G
Em
C
D
Oh yes, I was a comical priest,
G
Em
C
D
“With a joke for the flock and a hand up your fleece”
Em
B7
Em
D
Drooling the drink and the lipstick and greasepaint.
G
Em
C
D
C
G
B7
Down the cardboard front of my dirty dog-collar.
Em
B7
Now I’m dead, now I’m dead,
Em
D
now I’m dead, now I’m dead,
G
Em
C
Em
And I’m going on to meet my reward
Em
B7
I was scared, I was scared,
Em
D
I was scared, I was scared.
G
Em
C
D
C
G
B7
He might have never heard of God’s Comic.
Em
B7
Em
B7
So there he was on a water-bed
G
Em
C
D
Drinking a cola of a mystery brand
Am7
B7
C
B7
Reading an airport novelette,
Am7
B7
C
D
Em
listening to Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s “Requiem”
G
Em
C
D
He said, before it had really begun,
G
Em
C
D
“I prefer the one about my son”
Em
“I’ve been wading through
B7
Em
D
all this unbelievable junk
G
C
and wondering if I should have given
D
C
G
B7
the world to the monkeys”
Em
B7
Now I’m dead, now I’m dead,
Em
D
now I’m dead, now I’m dead
G
Em
C
Em
And we´re all going on to meet our reward
Em
B7
Are you scared? Are you scared?
Em
D
Are you scared? Are you scared?
G
Em
C
D
C
G
You might have never heard of God’s Comic.
C
D
I’m going to take a little trip
C
G
down Paradise’s endless shores
B7
E
’til you can’t get your head out of doors
Em
B7
Em
B7
Em
G
Am
Bb7
B7
Em
B7
Em
B7
I’m sitting here on the top of the world
G
Em
C
D
I hang around in the darkest night
Am7
B7
C
B7
Until each beast has gone bed
Am7
B7
C
B7
Em
and then I say: “God bless” and turn out the light
G
Em
C
D
While you lie in the dark, afraid to breathe
G
Em
and you beg and you promise
C
D
and you bargain and you plead
G
Em
C
D
Sometimes you confuse me with Santa Claus
G
Em
C
D
It’s the big white beard I suppose
Em
B7
Em
D
I’m going up to the pole, where you folks die of cold
G
Em
C
D
C
G
B7
I might be gone for a while if you need me
Em
B7
Now I’m dead, now I’m dead,
Em
D
now I’m dead, now I’m dead
G
Em
C
Em
And you´re all going on to meet our reward
Em
B7
Are you scared? Are you scared?
Em
D
Are you scared? Are you scared?
G
Em
C
D
C
G
You might have never heard of God’s Comic.
C
Am
Am7
G
Bb7
D
Em
B7
E
