B C#m              B              A         B C#m       B            A 
   "There must be some kind of way out of here,"  said the joker to the thief 
B C#m                 B     A B C#m        B       F#m 
    "There's too much confusion,      I can't get no relief 
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     Businessmen, they drink my wine,   plowmen dig my earth 
B C#m          B   A          B C#m      B        A 
     None will level on the line,     nobody of it is worth"

B C#m         B        A   B C#m             B          A 
    "No reason to get excited,"   the thief, he kindly spoke 
B C#m          B          A    B C#m            B            F#m 
    "There are many here among us,   who feel that life is but a joke 
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    But you and I, we've been through that,  and this is not our fate 
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    So let us not talk falsely now,    the hour's getting late"

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   All along the watchtower,   princess kept the view 
B C#m              B   A         B C#m        B        F#m 
    While all the women came and went,  barefoot servants, too, well 
B C#m     B           A     B C#m     B       A 
   Outside in the cold distance,    a wildcat did growl 
B C#m           B            A B         C#m    B     A 
     Two riders were approaching,   and the wind began to howl, hey