Tonalidad: Ab major
Verse 1
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F#m
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Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
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As I enter a doctor's office
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on 57th between 8th an d 9th,
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Gm
a rat comes zigzag towards me
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like a powder fuse towards
a keg.
F
Every three months I'd meet
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Émile in Le Petit Prince
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or another high -end restaurant in Algiers.
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G
C
In Le Normand, we bought foie
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gras by the ounce,
even as we rearranged the deck chairs.
G
It seemed rats given a high dosage
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of the amaranth dye found in maraschino
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cherries would develop tumours,
so he favoured mint
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to garnish his creme de menthe.
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Bottoms up, old boy. Cheers.
If he didn't have fresh mint,
he'd extemporise.
If he didn't have fresh mint,
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he'd extemporise with something from
the diplomatic pouch
G
to simultaneously pep up and
put dampers on our spirits.
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C
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One woman flashed the badge of a nipple,
but looked askance when I took it in.
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F
Once it was all cloak and dagger,
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G
we were all under cover once,
until Emile's headstrong creed occur against my using the
hand he kept in the fridge of his apartment on Rue Tagore
Am
to plant a fingerprint on a doorknob,
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G
In those years it was so much easier
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to fudge the evidence before DNA
and my own dodgy ticker,
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G
the years spent chained to a briefcase.
The years I spent with a briefcase
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G
chained to my wrist are as
nothing now.
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Those most pervacatious
young creatures
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F
I encouraged to do their worst,
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F
having long since re nounced their claims
or fallen foul of special ups.
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Every October,
Emile would make a syrup of quince.
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He and I have both
been toodle -pipped
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at the boast by the mediocrity,
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the closest I now come to a stab of joy it
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self being somewhat amorphous.
the fleeting smile,
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the blood test proving negative
that lends a bounce to my step
as I leave a doctor's office.
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