Mad John
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D
2. There was an old man who lived in a green wood,
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nobody
knew him or what he had done,
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but
mothers would say to their children 'Beware of Mad John' !
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2. John would sing with the birds in the morning,
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laugh
with the wind in the cold hand of night,
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but
people from behind their curtains said 'He's not quite right'.
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+ John had it sussed, he
was living the life of a tramp.
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Yes, his bed was the cold and
the damp,
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- D
but
the sun was his friend, he was free.
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3. So here was a wise one, who loved all the haters,
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loved
them so much that their hate turned to fear,
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and
shaking from behind their curtains the loved ones would hear :
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+ Ay-diddle aye di, diddle aye di and di di ! (4x)
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(orig. = capo 1st) (Small
Faces)