Laszlo Plantagenet Loves The Sun
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INTRO (x2)
Em
C/E
Am/E
VERSE 1
Em
Blockade the ships, turn back the planes
C
They brought us nothing but
Am
foreigners and shame
Em
Break out the flags, costume parade
C
Folklore and myth, precision-
Am
made
Gallows
Em
gleam, red leatherette
White velvet
C/E
noose, crisply off
Am/E
set
A trumpet
Em
blast, the spotlit stage
Here comes the
C/E
front man of our
Am/E
age
CHORUS 1
Gm
Laszlo Plantagenet loves the sun
Fm7
Mosslands blooming so
Cm7
gay
Gm
Freight yards gleam with a thistle flower
F7
No trains today
VERSE 2
Em
I should have sired a line admired
C/E
The greatest dad you never
Am/E
had
Em
Oh well move on, it’s time we sang
C/E
This ain’t Milan, it’s a little Pyong
Am/E
yang
Em
In the sphere are privateers
Our leader
C/E
is the grand vizi
Am/E
er
Em
The island seized in ’28
The glorious
C/E
shelling of Ku
Am/E
wait
CHORUS 2
Gm
Laszlo Plantagenet’s founding tale
Fm7
Speaks of captivi
Cm7
ty
Gm
Five long years in Somali chains
No
F7
beer, no skipples and no mercy
INTERLUDE
Em
Em/B
A/C#
A
G
A
C7
Bbm
VERSE 3
When he es
Em
caped from pirate jail
Some cried out
C/E
“Fake!” – their slander
Am/E
failed
A lead-lined
Em
grave on foreign land
That’s what such
C/E
impudence
de
Am/E
mands
CHORUS 3
Gm
Laszlo Plantagenet loves to share
So
Abmaj7
bring him your talks and your beads
We
Gm
all have creditors’ mouths to feed
It’s
Cm6
been declared, it’s been decreed
CHORUS 4
Gm
Laszlo Plantagenet loves the sun
Abmaj7
Metropolitans
cower
He’ll
Gm
have done what the lot of you
As
Cm6
soon as he can rise from his Zoloft
Gm
bower
FADE
Gm
Cm