The Tailor chords by Jack Hardy

Chords with lyrics

[Verse 1]


G+G       C majorC      G+G
the king's guardsman's greedy
D MajorD      G+G   E minorEm
he's underpaid he knows
 C majorC            G+G
tailor sew me a cloak of indigo
 G+G
that will disguise me well
  D MajorD    G+G     E minorEm
for the highwayman's game
C majorC
no one will suspect evil
     G+G          FF
and the king's cross are the same
C majorC
i will pay you dearly
           G+G    E minorEm
with half of what i claim

[Chorus 1]

D MajorD
no said the tailor
G+G      D MajorD  G+G
the tailor said no
D MajorD
a cloak will not hide
E minorEm         C majorC
what your own eyes see
C majorC
a cloak will not change
G+G        FF
what is hidden underneath
C majorC
just as mine does not confine
   G+G
the idea of what i am
D MajorD            E minorEm
i am not a tailor i'm a man


[Verse 2]

G+G       C majorC     G+G
the king's queen is hungry
D MajorD      G+G       E minorEm
for the pleasures adultery knows
 C majorC             G+G
tailor sew me a cloak of scarlet
 G+G
that will disguise me well
  D MajorD    G+G     E minorEm
for courting on the sly
 C majorC
that will make the fever
     G+G         FF
transparent to the night's eyes
C majorC
i will pay you dearly
           G+G    E minorEm
with favors and with sighs

[Chorus 2]

D MajorD
no said the tailor
G+G      D MajorD  G+G
the tailor said no
D MajorD
a cloak will not hide
E minorEm         C majorC
what your own eyes see
C majorC
a cloak will not change
G+G        FF
what is hidden underneath
C majorC
just as mine does not confine
   G+G
the idea of what i am
D MajorD            E minorEm
i am not a tailor i'm a man


[Verse 3]

G+G       C majorC    G+G
the king he is frightened
D MajorD      G+G     E minorEm
with shadows behind his back
 C majorC            G+G
tailor sew me a cloak of sable
 G+G
that will disguise me well
  D MajorD    G+G     E minorEm
from the daggers of my foes
 C majorC
that will keep me far above
   G+G      FF
those that are below
C majorC
i will pay you dearly
           G+G    E minorEm
if you fail on the gallows


[Chorus 3]

D MajorD
no said the tailor
G+G      D MajorD  G+G
the tailor said no
D MajorD
a cloak will not hide
E minorEm         C majorC
what your own eyes see
C majorC
a cloak will not change
G+G        FF
what is hidden underneath
C majorC
just as mine does not confine
   G+G
the idea of what i am
D MajorD            E minorEm