Chords for Comedians & Angels ♪♫ Tom Paxton ♫♪

[N] [Eb] Another place kind of [Bbm] analogous to the White Horse I [Bb] suppose it was in
Sheridan [Bbm] Square was called the Lion's [C] Head and many of us who were laboring in
the sorts of places that serve no adult beverages [B] _ at the end of the evening
would make our way over to [Bb] Sheridan Square to the Lion's Head.
They in its
entire existence it never allowed they never allowed a jukebox to darken its
door _ [Db]
which was [C] great because the _ [Dbm] all the music was provided [C] by the patrons _ _ and so
was the decor by the way it was a _ [Dbm] writer's bar and the decorations were
all framed [Db] covers of books [Bb] written by the patrons I don't know when they got
time to do that but they did.
_ [Dm] _ _ Anyhow [G] those were [Ab] precious _ precious memories [D] to
me and a lot of [Eb] a lot of our [Bb] participants on evenings like that are
no longer [A] with us and I miss them [D] very much.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] I miss my friends [D] tonight _ _ [G] their
faces [Em] shine for me the [A] _ clamor of their singing like [D] some mad [A] calliope _ _ still
ringing through the [D] lion's head until the morning _ [E] light _
_ [A] _ comedians and angels _
I miss my friends [D] tonight _
_ _ [G] with _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Jameson's or Bushnils or [B] Trotsky on [G] the rocks [Em] _ [A] the
_ Finian at the barricade [D] the batter in [A] the box a song for [D] every season a [G] smile
in every [Em] fight _ _ _ [A] _ comedians and angels _ I miss my friends [D] tonight _ _ _ [G] _ when _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Dave was in
his glory _ [G] and singing breath and [Em] vile _ [A] the Clancy's hauled a shoddy out [D] and
gave us Patti Doyle [A]
the [D] Mets were either best or worst and [G] [Em] Marx was wrong or
right _ [A] _ comedians and angels _ _ I miss my friends [D] tonight _ _
_ _ _ _ I wonder where they are now [G] they could be [Em] anywhere _ _ [A] in hell or _ California _ [D] or
back in Sheridan [A] Square _ they [D] left us where they left us so [G] we [Bm] put out the
[Em] light _ [A] _ _
comedians and angels I miss my friends [D] tonight _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ they _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
drink the parting
glass then [G] and sailed [Em] out to sea _ [A] and what a crew of rogues they made [D] in gleeful
[A] _ anarchy _ they [D] sang to the horizon _ a [G] song no pen [Em] could write _ _ [A] _ _
comedians and angels
_ I miss my [D] friends tonight _ they sang to the horizon [G] a song no pen [Em] could write
_ [A] _
_ comedians and angels _ _ I miss my friends [D] _ tonight
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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