When I Was King Lyrics - Graham Parker

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When I was king I was not really the man I am now 

G am g c 

I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china 

G g c em 

When I was king I had already abdicated 

C am g c 

Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap 

C 

But they'd run the first run of stamps 

D g 

People had cashed in their post office savings 

C d c 

To buy some and lick the back of my neck 

(c) d 

I just let them get on with it arrange the coronation 

G c 

I just didn't turn up, I just didn't turn up 

Photos 

You became queen to a regime of fixed ideas 

The subjects just outlines like figures in a shadow cabinet 

And then we ruled over some green and pleasant land 

With a frog and a princess not necessarily in that order 

But if you want it to be what you want it to be 

You'll have to dethrone me or have me decapitated 

I didn't want to be king anyway I always preferred to hang out 

With the servants, the servants 

When I was king 

When I was king there was no country left to rule 

Jesters and fools were leaders all of them a royal pain 

Now I'm a serf but I'm still trying to be a king 

But putting the crown on is like putting a silk purse on a sow's ear 

And if I want it to be like I want it to be 

I'll have to assassinate someone with a guitar as a gun 

On it's good to be king I know that I've been there 

G g 

Many, many, many, many kingdoms ago when I was king 

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