The Winter King
by Billy Lyrical (c) 2022
from the album "Ad Huck"
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[Intro]  Dm____ Am_____ Dm Am Dm Am  x2


[Verse 1]
Dm                   Am                  Dm   Am  Dm  Am
In the morning i was standing in the doorway
Dm                           Am          Dm   Am  Dm  Am
watching the sunrise on that cold spring day
F                      Am
looking cross the lake to the east
    Bb              C
the waves rose up a great white beast


[Chorus]
         Dm       Am     Dm       Am
it was a dreadful thing, dreadful thing
Dm        Am    Dm        Am
i saw the king, i saw the king


[Verse 2]
And all summer long the wet wet weather
with the potatoes rotting in the ground
and in the autumn there came a fever
that killed over ten thousand


[Chorus]
it was a dreadful thing, dreadful thing
i saw the king, i saw the king


[Verse 3]
Through flying water and fog and mist
rode the great white king on his great white horses
with the sun on his great white armour gleaming
and the plume of his great white helment streaming


[Chorus]
it was a dreadful thing, dreadful thing
i saw the king, i saw the king


[Verse 4]
So many people were weak and sick with hunger
through the long cold winter of heavy snow
so there weren't enough to work the fields
when springtime came with crops to sow


[Chorus]
it was a dreadful thing, dreadful thing
i saw the king, i saw the king


[Verse 5]
the king passed by as he rode cross the lake
then the sight grew dim and the sound grew faint
till i strained my eyes to see the last of him
and only then could i breath again


[Chorus]
it was a dreadful thing, dreadful thing
i saw the king, i saw the king


[Verse 6]
Oh you speak of justice and of right and wrong
yet every day your great ships sail on
weighed down with bacon, beef and bread
oh the rich get gold the poor get dead


[Chorus]
it was a dreadful thing, dreadful thing
i saw the king, i saw the king


[Chorus]
it was a dreadful thing, dreadful thing
i saw the king, i saw him________