A Am C Dsus2
The minstrel in the gallery
A Dsus2 A
looked down upon the smiling faces
F C F F o G
He met the gazes - observed the spaces
Dsus2 A
between the old men's cackle
A Am C Dsus2
He brewed a song of love and hatred
G
G Dsus2 A
oblique suggestions and he waited
F C F G C
He polarized the pumpkin eaters
F C F G C
static-humming panel-beaters
F C F G C
freshly day-glow'd factory cheaters
F C F G C
salaried and collar-scrubbing
A Am C Dsus2
He titillated men-of-action
F C F F G
belly warming hands still rubbing
G Dsus2 A
on the parts they never mention
A Am C Dsus2 G
He pacified the nappy-suffering
G Dsus2 Dsus4 A
infant-bleating one-line jokers
F C F G C
T V documentary makers
F C F G C
overfed and undertakers
A Am C Dsus2
Sunday paper backgammon players
F C F C
family-scarred and women-haters
F C F G C
Then he called the band down to the the stage
F C
and he looked at all
Dm A7sus4 Am C Cadd9 F
the friends he'd made