Mother England Reverie             capo 2 fret 

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I have no time for Time Magazine or Rolling Stone. 
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I have no wish for wishing wells or wishing bones. 
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I have no house in the country I have no motor car. 
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And if you think I'm joking, 
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then I'm just a one-line joker in a public bar. 
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And it seems there's no-body left for 
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tennis; and I'm a one-band-man. 
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And I want no Top Twenty funeral or a hundred grand. 
  

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There was a little boy stood on a burning log, 
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   rubbing his hands with glee. 
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He said, ``Oh Mother England, 
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  did you light my smile; or did you light this fire under me? 
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One day I'll be a minstrel in the gallery. 
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And paint you a picture of the queen. 
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And if sometimes I sing to a cynical degree --- 
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it's just the nonsense that it seems.'' 
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So I drift down through the Baker Street valley, 
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in my steep-sided un-reality. 
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And when all is said and all is done --- I couldn't wish 
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for a better one. 
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It's a real-life ripe dead certainty --- 
  

that I'm just a Baker Street Muse. 

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Words and music by  IAN ANDERSON 

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