C F C Now the Swan it floated on the English river C F C Ah the Rose of High Romance it opened wide E Am F/C A sun tanned woman yearned me through the summer G F C and the judges watched us from the other side C F C I told my mother Mother I must leave you C F C preserve my room but do not shed a tear E Am F/C Should rumour of a shabby ending reach you G F C it was half my fault and half the atmosphere C F C But the Rose I sickened with a scarlet fever C F C and the Swan I tempted with a sense of shame E Am F/C She said at last I was her finest lover G F C and if she withered I would be to blame C F C The judges said you missed it by a fraction C F C rise up and brace your troops for the attack E Am F/C Ah the dreamers ride against the men of action G F C Oh see the men of action falling back C F C But I lingered on her thighs a fatal moment C F C I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still E Am F/C My falsity had stung me like a hornet G F C The poison sank and it paralysed my will C F C I could not move to warn all the younger soldiers C F C that they had been deserted from above E Am F/C So on battlefields from here to Barcelona G F C I'm listed with the enemies of love C F C And long ago she said I must be leaving, C F C Ah but keep my body here to lie upon E Am F/C You can move it up and down and when I'm sleeping G F C Run some wire through that Rose and wind the Swan C F C So daily I renew my idle duty C F C I touch her here and there, I know my place E Am F/C I kiss her open mouth and I praise her beauty G F C and people call me traitor to my face
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