Asylum

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[Verse] -

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Jimmy cream was keen, his brain was always winnin’,

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I can’t keep tabs on mine, it’s really quite a joke

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I see him down the road, I ask if he’d be willing

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To lend me 15p - I’m dying for a smoke


[Chorus] -

Cm      Cm/Bb            Ab                 Ab Gm
Don’t arrange to have me sent to no asylum

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I’m just as sane as anyone

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It’s a just a game I play for fun - for fun.


[Verse] -

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I told em - look! - I said I’m not the way you’re thinkin,

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Just when I’m down, I’ll be a clown, I’ll play the fool.

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Please don’t arrange to have me sent to no asylum

F                   Bb
I'm just as sane as anyone

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It’s just a game I play for fun - for fun.

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[Breakdown] -

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Will he take a sailboat ride?

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He is very likely to,

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Will he feel good inside?

F             G      F
He ain’t very likely to,

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Will he tell you he’s alive?

F            G      F
He is always trying to

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But nothin’, no nothin’, does he say

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In the morning when the day’s begun


- ’hello good morning, how are you? ’

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And in the evening or the noonday sun


- ’what a lovely afternoon!’

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Well I’ve been living next to you


[Verse] -

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Bluesy monday is the one day that they come here,

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When they haunt me and taunt me in my cage.

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I mock them all, they’re feelin’ small, they got no answer

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They’re playin’ dumb but I’m just lauging as they rage


[Chorus] -

Cm             Cm/Bb            Ab                Ab Gm
Please Don’t arrange to have me sent to no asylum

F                           Bb
It’s only a game I play for fun

          Eb      Bb          Eb
I’ve been foolin’ everyone - everyone.

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[Breakdown] -

C              F/C
Will he take a sailboat ride?

F          G      F
He is very likely to

C            F/C
Will he feel good inside?

F             G      F
He ain’t very likely to

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Will he tell you he’s alive?

F            G      F
He is always tryin’ to

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But nothin’, no nothin’ does he vere say

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In the morning when the day’s begun


- ’do you think it looks like rain’?

    C      Dm      Em     G       Am
And in the evening or the noonday sun


- ’you know I nearly missed my train’

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Well I’ve been living next to you my friend

Ab
But what kind of friend are you?

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Is it the beginning or the sorry end?

Am
Will I ever see it through?

Am
I’ve never been insane

Ab
Oh what’s the game?

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I  believe I’m dy-ing...

[Outro] -

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(He's mad, mad, mad, mad...)
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(NOT QUITE RIGHT!)
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(WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!)
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