Tonalidad: E minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Mr.
Pugh, in the schoolhouse opposite,
takes up the morning tea to
Mrs.
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Pugh and whispers
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on the stairs.
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Here's your arsenic, dear,
Em
and your weed -killer biscuit.
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Am
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C
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I've rotted your parakeet,
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I've spat in the vases,
I've put cheese in the mouth
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-holes.
Em
Here's your...
Nice tea, dear.
Too much sugar.
G
C
You haven't tasted it yet, dear.
Too much milk, then.
Admit it,
Em
Jenkins, that it's poetry.
Why, yes, dear.
Then it's time to get up.
Give me my glasses.
G
C
No, not my reading glasses.
I want to look out.
Em
C
Am
I want to see.
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C
In the blind, drawn,
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dark dining room of
Schoolhouse, dusty and echo
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Em
ing as a dining room in a vault,
Mr. and
Mrs.
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Pugh are silent over cold,
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Am
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grainy cottage pie.
Mr.
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Pugh reads, as he forks the shroud meat in,
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from the lives of the great poisoners.
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He has found a plain,
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brown paper cover on the book.
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Em
Slyly, between slow mouthfuls,
G
Am
he sidespies up at
Mrs.
Em
Poole, poisons her with his eye,
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He goes on reading.
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Fm
He underlines certain passages and smiles
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in secret.
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Do not read a table,
Mrs.
She swallows a digestive tablet
as big as a horse's
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Washing it down with clouded
C
pea -soup water.
Some persons were brought
up in pig -styles.
Em
Pigs don't read a table,
Bitterly she flicks dust from the broken court.
C
It settles on the pie in a thin, gnat -wing.
Em
Pigs can't read, my dear.
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Em
C
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I know one who can.
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Em
Alone in the hissing laborat
A
ory of his wishes,
Pugh minces among bad -bats
and geroborums,
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Em
tiptoes through spinnies of murdering herbs,
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agony dancing in his crucibles,
and mixes, especially for
Mrs.
Pugh, the venomous potage
Em
unknown to toxicologists.
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She will scald and bite her finger
G
until her ears fall off like figs,
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Her toes grow big and black as balloons,
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and steam comes screaming out of her neck.
Mrs.
Pugh smiles.
An icicle forms in the cold
air of the dining vault.
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