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| Songwriter: Roger Hodgson |
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| DK . . "Crime Of The Century" . .September 1974 |
| INTRO |
| Cm | Cm7 | F | F7 | Fm | Fm | Cm | Cm7 |
| VERSE |
| Cm | Cm7 | |
| The actors and jesters are he | re, |
| F | F7 | |
| The stage is in darkness and cl | ear, |
| Fm | |
| For raising the curtain, and no-one's quite certain |
| Cm | Cm7 | |
| Whose | play it is. |
| Cm | Cm7 | |
| How long ago, how | long? |
| F | F7 | |
| If only we | had listened then, |
| Fm | |
| If we'd | known.. just how right, |
| Cm | Cm7 | |
| We were | going to be. |
| Cm | Cm7 | |
| For we | dreamed a lot and we | schemed a lot |
| F | |
| And we | tried to sing of love before |
| Fm | Fm | |
| The | stage fell apart. |
| Cm | Cm7 | Eb | |
| Oh | o-h, o-h-h, o-h-h, | o-h-h, | o-h-h-h |
| CHORUS |
| Eb | Bb | |
| If everyone was | listening you know,(Run Bb,C,Eb) |
| Eb | Bb | |
| There'd be a cha-nce that | we could save the show.(Run Bb,B,C) |
| Cm | F | |
| __Who'll be the last clown | ... to bring the house down? |
| Cm | Gm | Cm | Gm | Cm | Gm | Fm | |
| Oh | no, | please | no,, | don't let the | curtain | fall. |
| Db | Cm | |
| Instrumental |
| Cm | Cm7 | F | F7 | Fm | Fm | Cm | Cm7 | |
| Cm | Cm7 | F | F7 | Fm | Fm | Cm | Cm7 | |
| VERSE |
| Cm | Cm7 | |
| What is your costume to | day? |
| F | F7 | |
| Who are the props in your pl | ay? |
| Fm | |
| You're acting a part which you thought |
| Cm | Cm7 | |
| From the start.. was an | honest one. |
| Cm | |
| Well, how do you plead? |
| F | |
| An actor indeed! Go re- | learn your li-i-ines |
| Fm | |
| You don't kno-ow what you've done, |
| Cm | Eb | |
| The fi | n-aa-lee's begu-u-u | n: |
| CHORUS (As previous) |
| Eb | Bb | |
| If everyone was | listening you know,(Run Bb,C,Eb) |
| Eb | Bb | |
| There'd be a cha--nce that | we could save the show.{run Bb,B,C) |
| Cm | F | |
| __Who'll be the last clown | ... to bring the house down? |
| Cm | Gm | Cm | Gm | Cm | Gm | Fm | |
| Oh | no, | please | no,, | don't let the | curtain | fall. |
| (Outro played slow).. |
| Db//// Cm//// Db//// Cm/ |
| END |
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