C D F
The cause is Ozymandian.
C D F
The mapa sacra continent
C G
is sanded and bevelled,
Bb F
the land lorn and levelled
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by some unrecorded and powerful hand
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where all of the twenty thousand attending your footfall
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and the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls,
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and the records they left are cryptic at best,
Eb Bb
lost in obsolescence.
Bb Gm
The text will not yield, nor x ray reveal
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with any fluorescence
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where the hand of the master begins and ends.
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Bb
"It's alright,"
C
and "It's all over now,"
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and boarded the plane,
Bb
his belt unfastened;
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the boy was known to show unusual daring.
Bb
And, called a “boy”,
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this older man confounding Tammany Hall
Bb
(In whose employ
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King Tamanend himself preceded John’s fall).