Palaces Of Gold Chords by Leon Rosselson

[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ If the sons of company directors [A] _ [E] and judges' [B] private daughters
_ _ _ _ _ Had to go to school in a slum school
_ [F#m] Dumped by some joker [E] in a damp back [B] alley
Had to herd [D] into [D#] classrooms [G#m] cramped with worry
[B] With a view [E] onto slagheaps and [B] stagnant pools
Had to file through [E] [C#] corridors [D] grey with age
[A] And play in a [E] crackpot [F#] concrete cage
_ _ _ [B] _ Buttons [C#] would be pressed, _ rules [G#m] would be broken _
Strings [E] would be pulled _ _ [B] and magic words [C#] spoken
_ _ [B] Invisible fingers would mould _ _ [F#] palaces of gold
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ If prime ministers and advertising [A] executives
[E] Royal personages and [B] bank managers' wives _
_ _ Had to live out their lives in dank rooms
[F#m] Blinded by smoke [E] and the foul [B] air of sewers
Rot [D] on the walls [D#m] and rats in [G#m] the cellars
[B] Heroes of dumb [E] houses like [B] mouldering tombs
Had to bring up their children [F#] [A] and watch them [D] grow
[A] In a [E] wasteland of dead streets [F#] where nothing will grow _ _ _
[B] _ [E] Buttons would be pressed, _ [B] rules would be broken
_ _ Strings would [E] be pulled and [B] magic words [C#] spoken _
_ [B] Invisible fingers would mould _ _ [F#] palaces of gold _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm not suggesting any sort of [A] a plot
_ [E] _
Everyone knows [B] there's not _ _ _
But you unborn millions might like to be warned
That if you [F#m] don't want to be buried [E] alive by [B] slagheaps
[D] Pitfalls and damp walls [D#] and rat traps and [G#m] dead streets
_ [B] Arranged to [E] be democratically [B] born
The son [E] of a [C#m] company [D] director
[A] Or a judge's [E] fine and [F#] private daughter
_ _ _ [C#] _ Buttons will be pressed, _ [B] rules will be broken
_ Strings will [E] be pulled _ [B] and magic words spoken
_ _ Invisible fingers will mould _ _ palaces of gold _ _ _ _ _
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