The Mayor Of Candor Lied

	  		
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In the little town of Candor, in the last year of my youth, 
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I learned the final lesson of the levels to the truth. 
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My father was a farmer he'd go tilling in the ground. 
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My mother was a neighbor she'd go visiting around. 

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But I didn't care, 
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For I had found the answer to a plowboy's lonely prayer. 
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She was the daughter of the Mayor. 

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The Mayor fought my courtship, for he'd made other plans, 
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He saw her married to a better man than a boy with farmer's hands. 
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I said -- I hate your father, it's so hard not to strike him. 
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She said --You know I love you because you're so much like him. 

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And so I'd go sneaking in the evening, 
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And there she'd stand a crying in the dawn as I was leaving. 

        Dm 
But the Mayor of Candor lied, 
        G 
When he offered me his only daughter. 
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The Mayor of Candor tried, 
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To take her off across the water. 
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What a thing to do to a young man in love. 
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What a thing to do to your daughter. 

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One day with father on his tractor and mother off again, 
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I go to find the mayor and work out what I can. 
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But he is not at his office, he is not at his home, 
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When I find him in the countryside he is not alone. 

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He is holding a woman and imagine my surprise, 
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As she jumps back from his arms I look into my mother's eyes! 

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The mayor of Candor lied 

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F                           C 
All my thoughts of outrage, embarrassment and pain, 
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Were washed away by what came roaring through my brain. 
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The Mayor's at my mercy and I hear my own voice say, 
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Your run for re-election, sir, is just one month away. 

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And the world will never know of what I've seen here sir, 
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But I'll be with your daughter is my meaning clear, sir? 

        Dm 
The Mayor of Candor lied, 
        G 
When he offered me his only daughter. 
    Dm 
The Mayor of Candor tried, 
   G 
To take her off across the water. 
Bb                      G 
What a thing to do to a young man in love. 
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What a thing to do to your daughter. 

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   F                             C 
My mother looks in horror at the compromise we made, 
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But the Mayor's rueful smile says the piper must be paid! 
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I had a month of joy in heaven from this deal I'd made in hell. 
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What was to happen then my friend a prophet could not tell. 

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The day after his re-election and the victory celebration, 
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The Mayor takes his family on a month long foreign vacation. 

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Oh Sarah, you know how much I love you. 
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There is no one I'd ever place above you. 
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Oh Sarah, you don't even know me. 
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To have you there's nothing that's below me. 

        Dm 
The Mayor of Candor lied, 
        G 
When he offered me his only daughter. 
    Dm 
The Mayor of Candor tried, 
   G 
To take her off across the water. 
Bb                      G 
What a thing to do to a young man in love. 
Bb                         Dm 
What a thing to do to your daughter. 

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    F                            C 
The day that they return I stand waiting on the road. 
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I watch the car drive up, I watch the passengers unload. 
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Of course she isn't there. Of course, I should have known. 
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The Mayor says that she is staying. The decision is her own. 

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He said "She's finishing her schooling on that unseen foreign shore. 
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And I'll tell you very frankly, boy, you'll not see her anymore! 

        Dm 
The Mayor of Candor lied, 
        G 
When he offered me his only daughter. 
    Dm 
The Mayor of Candor tried, 
   G 
To take her off across the water. 
Bb                      G 
What a thing to do to a young man in love. 
Bb                         Dm 
What a thing to do to your daughter. 

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  F                         C 
I spit out my hatred and my fury at his lies, 
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When he says you tried to blackmail me you're just as bad as I! 
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He says -- Go on and do your damndest boy, throw your mother to the streets! 
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You know it's been too many years I had to be discreet. 

          F                         C 
And as he stands there saying we're just two of a kind, 
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It hits me like a thunderbolt exploding in my mind. 
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As I look into his aged, wrinkled, mirror of my own face, 
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He laughs and sneers and says, Of course, dear son, 

Where do you think you came from in the first place? 

        Dm 
The Mayor of Candor lied, 
        G 
When he offered me his only daughter. 
    Dm 
The Mayor of Candor tried, 
   G 
To take her off across the water. 
Bb                      G 
What a thing to do to a young man in love. 
Bb                         Dm 
What a thing to do to your daughter.