The Royal Scam(Chords)

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------ And they wandered in from  the city  

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of St.John without a  dime ------------- 

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 ---- Wearing coats that shine both red and        

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green colors from their sunny is -- land ---- 

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---- From their boats of iron they looked upon 
  
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--- the promised land where surely -- life was sweet.  

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---- On the rising tide to New York --  

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City did they ride into the   street ----- 

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See the glo--ry ,see the --- glo -- ry  

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of the royal scam. --------- 



verse 2 : 


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  They are hounded down to the bottom  

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of a bad town amid the ruins  

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  where they learn to fear an angry race  

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of fallen kings their dark companions  
  
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while the memory of their southern sky  

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was clouded by a savage winter  

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  Every patron saint hung on the wall,  

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shared the room with twenty sinners  

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See the glo--ry ,see the --- glo -- ry  

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Of the royal scam  



verse 3 : 


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 By the blackened wall he does it all  

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 he thinks he's died and gone to heaven  

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Now the tale is told by the old man  

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back home he reads the letter  

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   How they are paid in gold jst to babble   
  
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in he back room all night and waste their time  


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------ And they wandered in from  the city  

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of St.John without a  dime  

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See the glo--ry ,see the --- glo -- ry  

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Of the royal scam .
	        

Written by Walter Becker/Donald Fagen