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Here she comes in her palanquin on the back of an elephant
F E
On a bed made of linen and sequins and silk
All astride on her father's line with the king and his concubines
F E
And her nurse with her pitchers of liquors and milk
G D E
And we'll all come praise the infanta
G D E
And we'll all come praise the infanta
E
Among five score pachyderm each canopied and passengered
F E
Sit the duke and the duchess's luscious young girls
Within sight of the baronness seething spite for this live largesse
F E
On her side sits the baron, her barrenness barbs her
G D E
And we'll all come praise the infanta
G D E
And we'll all come praise the infanta
(Interlude:)
Em D
Em D
Am Bb F
F
A phalanx on camel back, thirty ranks on a forward tack
F# F
Followed close, their shiny bright standards are waving
While behind in their coach in fours ride the wives of the king of bores
F# F
And the veiled young virgin, the prince's betrothed
G# Eb F
And we'll all come praise the infanta
G# Eb F
And we'll all come praise the infanta
E F
And as she sits upon her place
E F
Her innocence laid on her face
Bb F
From all atop the parapets blow a multitude of coronets
Bb F
Melodies rhapsodical and fair
Bb F
And all our hearts afire, the sky ablaze with cannonfire
E F
We all raise our voices to the air
E
To the air
E
And above all this folderol on a bed made of chaparral
F E
She is laid, a coronal placed on her brow
And the babe all in slumber dreams of a place filled with quiet streams
F E
And a lake where her cradle was pulled from the water
G D E
And we'll all come praise the infanta
G D E
And we'll all come praise the infanta
G D E
And we'll all come praise the infanta
End:
G D E
G D E
G D E
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