{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2861492,"song":"The Poet","artist":"Momus","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11646746-the-poet-chords-by-momus/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2861492?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI was wallowing in squalor when a note came through the mail[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                                                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFrom a light-fingered acquaintance who'd been lingering in jail[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                                                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe had served a year of sentence when the fools had set him free[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd he'd had a good idea he said he'd like to put to me[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI said come on then, let's have it, there's a twinkle in his eye[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe says let me put it this way, have you ever wondered why[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe rich have so much money when, if push should come to crunch[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou can only be in one room and only eat one lunch[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA cogent observation, but I didn't have the time[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI presumed this exposition must be leading to a crime[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe said wait a precious moment I am trying to set the scene[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIf you liberate your mind my friend you'll soon see what I mean[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nHe said have you ever wondered how a horse becomes a glue?[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Cm[/ch]                                          [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nOr how my uncle's pencil reached a garden in Peru?[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Cm[/ch]                                            [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nAnd have you tried valerian, the side-effects are strange[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nThere is no such thing as accident, for everything's arranged[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI said listen friend your time inside has clearly flipped your mind[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThese are merely hypotheticals I haven't got the time[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIf it's blackmailing on Snapchat or a hold-up count on me[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut this claptrap that you're spouting now just sounds like poetry[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDo not be so narrow-minded, my erstwhile accomplice trilled[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Cm[/ch]                                          [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI've had lots of time for poetry it's left me rather thrilled[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Cm[/ch]                                                 [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI've been reading the New York School: Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nAnd they've given me more pleasure than a thousand dirty jokes[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Break]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nWell he's published by Macmillan now, he got a big advance[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Cm[/ch]                                                [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nWhich he spent on buying a farmhouse in a pleasant part of France[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Cm[/ch]                                         [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nHis first book won a Pulitzer, he's up for a Nobel[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nThey say you can't change human nature but he's doing rather well[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nG\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Break]\nG  G\nC  G\nC  G\nD  G\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nG  G\nC  G\nC  G\nD  G","chords":["G","C","D","A","Gm","Cm"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Cm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,3,5,5,4,3]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"Gm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[3,5,5,3,3,3]}}}