The Armadillo

	  		




Riff x2 

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I was taking compass bearings for the Ordanance Survey 

      G5   Dadd4/F#  Bm5+   A7        Am7       D 
On an army training camp on Salisbury plain. 

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I had packed up my theodolite, I was calling it a day 

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When I heard a voice that sang a sad refrain: 


Interlude 


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Oh my darling armadillo, let me tell you of my love, 

       G5  Dadd4/F#  Bm5+  A7    Am7     D 
Listen to my armadillo roundelay. 

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Be my fellow on my pillow underneath this weeping willow, 

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Be my darling armadillo all the day. 


Riff x2 


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I was somewhat disconcerted by this curious affair 

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For a single armadillo, you alone, 

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On Salisbury plain in summer is comparitively rare 

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And a pair of them is practically unknown. 



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Drawn by that mellow solo, there I followed on my bike 

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To discover what these armadillo lovers might be like. 


Interlude 


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Oh my darling armadillo how delightful it would be 

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If for us those silver wedding bells should chime. 

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Let the orange blossoms billow, you need only say I will, oh 

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Be my darling armadillo all the time. 


Riff x2 


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Then I saw them in a hollow on a yellow muddy bank; 

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An armadillo singing to an armour-plated tank. 



--Simply pick the following notes throughout this next part: 




Should I tell him gaunt and rusting with the willow tree above, 

This abandoned on-manoeuvres is the object of your love? 



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I left him to his singing, I cycled home without a pause. 

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Never tell a man the truth about the one that he adores. 



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On the breeze that followed sunset I could hear that sad refrain 

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Singing willow, willow, willow down the way. 

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And I seem to hear it still oh vive l'amour, vive l'armadillo, 

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Be my darling armadillo all the day. 

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Be my darling armadillo all the day.