The Great Exhibition

The Great Exhibition 

G                       Am

I never saw you at the world's fair

        D                       G

In the hustle and bustle of the world's fair

Bm                           Em

Showing off your continental flair

        D7                           G

While delighting in the latest tableware

Cdim                                      Bdim        

If the journey left you slightly worse for wear

        Em                                D7

You can rest there in a brand new kind of chair

G                       Am

I never saw you at the world's fair

C            D7              G

Maybe it's because I wasn't there

Bm     E7  

A                           Bm

You had just come back from Singapore

    E                                   A

To find out what the old world had in store

    C#m                              F#m

Supposing you had hoped for something more

  E7                               A

A thing or two you'd never seen before

     Ddim                      C#dim

Now travelling is really just a chore

        F#m                     C#m

And the empire is rotten to the core

  A                                  Bm

I wonder still what you were looking for

Bm              E7         A  D7

By the Chrystal Palace dinosaurs

           C                         Bm

When you showed up at the Great Exhibition

   G                                   Bm

Together with your friend the stage magician

     Em                       Bm

To listen to a most unique rendition

   G                       Em

Of so-and-so's latest composition

    C                         Bm

But bored by the endless repetition

    G                         Bm

You went outside in the intermission

      Em                          Bm

While I was still plagued by indecision

      D                          G

And scraping for the price of admission