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The Shining Hour
AmAre we stilCl on the phone=20 Bm Dm AmWith laCdy Anna Clarke and herBm trumpet solo? Dm Am C Bm Dm Whose ghost sings for pay Am C Bm Dm In the blue billiard room of the Monterey Am C Bm Dm For room and for board AmAnd the back Cdoor key is a 19th centuBmry civil war swordDm Am C Bm Dm Once owned by John Booth Am C Bm Dm =20 And heAm misplaced his script when he caught his leather boot
G F Dm Am This could be the shining hour G F Dm Am Based on all this mad belief G F Dm Am In money oil and angel powder G F Dm=09 In the new age magazine=20 There=92s a hole in the wall Behind the photograph of Al Capone He=92s sittin=92 down at city hall The police they peek through here And they watch you get dressed in the two-way mirror But it=92s all in good spirits And if you close eyes you can=92t help, help but to hear =91em move This could be the shining hour Based on all this mad belief In the money oil and angel powder In the new age magazine I propose a toast To the memory of the horse who carried King Tut and his gold Into the sun He collapsed last summer from a heat stroke somewhere in the east=20 village, oh=20 And it kills me to think That I=92m no longer living Just looking for excuses to dink So lift up your glass And your Ouija board =91cause I=92m fading, fading, fading fast