VOICE IN THE DARK
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You can read right through a book of matches
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But that won’t make you smart
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You can laugh in the face of watches
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But time will only break your heart
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Kings reign beneath umbrellas
C A7
Hide pennies down in cellars
Dm A7
And money pours down and yet
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No everyone gets soaking wet
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When bores and bullies conspire
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To stamp out your spark
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Listen for…
G7 C
A Voice In The Dark
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Not a moment too soon as we blue the moon
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And a wolf begins to howl in tune
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I announced for all mankind a boon
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Stand aside you big baboon
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Now I’m the a prize invention
Fm
You’re the image of yourself
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Forget your cares
A7
And disapproving stares
D7
I’m not here to try to jump your borders
G7
Just ask your nieces and daughters
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I’m flat as sole, I’m happy as a clam
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But they don’t know the kind of man I am (alt for this line only)
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Little fish swimming in a jealous shoal
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Now my net is overflowing
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And I suddenly seem to be all seeing and all knowing
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I’ve got something right there
A7
That you might want to hear
D7
But have no fear
Lend a hand
Lend an ear
G7
If your rent-money is in arrears
C A7
We’ll be striking up a symphony bandstand
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Long of hair and loose of tooth
C C7
There’ll be pirouettes and startling handstands
F Fm
And who but acrobats know how to tell the truth
F Fm
When is said that then redundant
C A7
They gallivant in peg-leg pants
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I‘ll be your servant
A7
You’ll be my pal
Dm7 G7
I’ll be ever faithful you know I shall
C F
There’s no fool like an old fool
E7 A7
Who blames it all upon his youth
Dm7 G7
When times are tough and you find you’re down
Em7 A7
Without a star to wish upon
D7 G7 C
Just listen for a Voice In The Dark
C A7
I was striking through a box of matches
Dm7 G7
Hoping that one would spark
C C7
I heard somebody calling to me
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A voice in the dark
F Fm
A sound both wild and gentle
Em7 A7
Daring and confidential
Dm7 A7
I thought there was music playing
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But it was all and only talk
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When liars and bullies conspire to stamp out your spark
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Fill up that empty space in your heart
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Listen up, when the herald says, “Hark”
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Believe in just a voice in the dark…