I Had A King

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  • Tuning DADEAD, Capo 7. 4/4, quarter note = 108.
     
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  • I had a king in a tenement castle
     
    7 crescendo............
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  • Lately he's taken to painting the pastel walls brown
     
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  • He's taken the cur - tains down He's
     
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  • Swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring
     
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  • He's cleaned with the tears of an actor who fears for
     
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  • the laughter's sting....
     
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  • I can't go back there any - more You know my keys won't
     
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  • fit the door You know my thoughts don't fit the man
     
     
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    They never can they never can
     
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    (slow strum.....)
     
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    I HAD A KING - JONI MITCHELL
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    I had a king in a tenement castle
    Lately he's taken to painting the pastel walls brown
  • He's taken the curtains down
    He's swept with the broom of contempt
    And the rooms have an empty ring
  • He's cleaned with the tears
    Of an actor who fears for the laughter's sting-
     
  • Chorus:
    I can't go back there anymore
    You know my keys won't fit the door
  • You know my thoughts don't fit the man
    They never can they never can
     
  • I had a king dressed in drip-dry and paisley
    Lately he's taken to saying i'm crazy and blind
    He lives in another time
  • Ladies in gingham still blush
    While he sings them of wars and wine
    But I in my leather and lace
  • I can never become that kind-
     
    Chorus
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    I had a king in a salt-rusted carriage
    Who carried me off to his country for marriage too soon
  • Beware of the power of moons
    There's no one to blame
    No there's no one to name as a traitor here
  • The king's on the road
    And the queen's in the grove 'till the end of the year-
     
  • Chorus
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I Had A King
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