Audience With The Man chords by Steve Harley

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
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Verse 1:
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You lead the lost sheep up to the mountain
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You tell them everything's gonna be OK
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With that old familiar smile that everybody's seen

Verse 2:
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There's a million or more if you're counting
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And they're waiting for words but you've nothing to say
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It's that old familiar sting where everybody's clean

Chorus:
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You start mumbling, they're applauding, everyone's screaming your name
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There's a rumbling while you're lording it, everyone's watching your game
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There's little now to be said for this
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Oh, you know we've done all we can
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So everyone's waiting for an audience with the man

Verse 3:
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We've gone from Shakespeare, Dickens and Churchill
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We've had Nixon, Napoleon, Kennedy too
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They all had that old familiar smile that everybody knows

Verse 4:
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How the West was won is a 🏷Legend
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But how the Empire fell is known only to the few
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It's like that old rodeo where anything goes

Chorus 2:
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It's a night-out but a wipe-out 'cause Mary's gone mislaid the sheep
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You're still talking but only to the walking, dead 'cause they've all gone asleep
    F# minorF#m       BB
There's little now to be said for this
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Oh, you know we've done all we can
                 BB         E MajorE
And so everyone's waiting for an audience with the man

Middle 8:
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Pa talks like it's politics, claims: "the Pope's a friend of mine"
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Ma's in the chapel preaching fear of the Lord while junior's committing a crime
So everything is fine

Solo:
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Chorus 3:
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You go for a night-out, it's a regular wipe-out 'cause Mary's gone lost the sheep
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You, you're still talking but only to the walking, dead 'cause they've all gone asleep
      F# minorF#m       BB
So, there's little now to be said for this
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Oh, you know we've done all we can
                 BB         E MajorE
And so everyone's waiting for an audience with the man

Solo:
E MajorE E E MajorE A augmentedA x 4
E MajorE

Outro:
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Everyone's waiting for an audience with the big big man
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Everyone's waiting for an audience with the big big man
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Everyone's waiting for an audience with the big big man
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Everyone's waiting for an audience with the big big man

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