Pre>capo at 2 intro: ? ?       G g c em   When I was king I was not really the man I am now   G am g c   I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china   G g c em   When I was king I had already abdicated   C am g c   Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap   C   But they'd run the first run of stamps   D g   People had cashed in their post office savings   C d c   To buy some and lick the back of my neck   (c) d   I just let them get on with it arrange the coronation   G c   I just didn't turn up, I just didn't turn up      You became queen to a regime of fixed ideas   The subjects just outlines like figures in a shadow cabinet   And then we ruled over some green and pleasant land   With a frog and a princess not necessarily in that order      But if you want it to be what you want it to be   You'll have to dethrone me or have me decapitated   I didn't want to be king anyway I always preferred to hang out   With the servants, the servants   When I was king   When I was king there was no country left to rule   Jesters and fools were leaders all of them a royal pain   Now I'm a serf but I'm still trying to be a king   But putting the crown on is like putting a silk purse on a sow's ear   And if I want it to be like I want it to be   I'll have to assassinate someone with a guitar as a gun   On it's good to be king I know that I've been there   G g   Many, many, many, many kingdoms ago when I was king      Repeat when I when I over g and c /pre>