Intro/Verse
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(Repeat throughout verses 1&2)
Chorus/Lead
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(Return to Intro/Verse section)
Interlude
(This is played between the 2nd Chorus/Lead and the Outro/Lead sections.)
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(1st Verse)
AGadd9DGsus2
They have killed the Great Sun Jester
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Who danced between the stars
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They have stripped him of his manhood
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Sign of Venus and of Mars
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The cynics left him weepin' and the jackals left him torn
AGadd9DGsus2A
And the Jester reaches out blind hands, he can touch the stars ... no more
(Chorus)
AGDGDGD
Now he took the stars in his hands and as he scattered them he'd shout
AGDGDGD
I'm the joker of the universe, I'm what it's all about
AGDGDGD
Now he's dying in his grief and the hard men drag him down
AGDG(D)A
They have killed the wild eyed jester, they have killed the fire clown
(2nd Verse)
Now his blind eyes seek the starlight
And his fingers seek controls
To take him into space again
Where he was both young and old
The dancer's stiff with pain and they've made him kneel too long
And the madness they have driven out, they've left him cold and sick
(Repeat Chorus)
(Interlude)
AGadd9DGsus2DA
He'll never sing his songs again
AGadd9DGsus2DA
He'll never dance between the stars again
AGadd9DGsus2DA
He'll never laugh again
AGadd9DGsus2A
No he'll never, ever laugh again ... Ohhh no!
Outro/Fade
AGDGDGDAGDGD
He'll never laugh again
GDAGDGD
He'll never laugh again
GDAGDGD
He'll never laugh again
GDAGD
He'll never laugh again no no
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He'll never, he'll never laugh again
Composição de Eric Bloom/Michael Moorcock/John Trivers