Jack Hardy - The Tailor

      [Verse 1]


G             C           G
the king's guardsman's greedy
D            G     Em
he's underpaid he knows
 C                        G
tailor sew me a cloak of indigo
  G
that will disguise me well
   D       G         Em
for the highwayman's game
C                   
no one will suspect evil
          G                   F
and the king's cross are the same
C
i will pay you dearly
                     G       Em
with half of what i claim


[Chorus 1]

D
no said the tailor
G            D   G
the tailor said no
D
a cloak will not hide
Em                  C
what your own eyes see
C
a cloak will not change
G               F
what is hidden underneath
C
just as mine does not confine
      G
the idea of what i am
D                       Em
i am not a tailor i'm a man


[Verse 2]

G             C         G
the king's queen is hungry
D            G             Em
for the pleasures adultery knows
 C                          G
tailor sew me a cloak of scarlet
  G
that will disguise me well
   D       G         Em
for courting on the sly
  C
that will make the fever
          G                  F
transparent to the night's eyes
C
i will pay you dearly
                     G       Em
with favors and with sighs


[Chorus 2]

D
no said the tailor
G            D   G
the tailor said no
D
a cloak will not hide
Em                  C
what your own eyes see
C
a cloak will not change
G               F
what is hidden underneath
C
just as mine does not confine
      G
the idea of what i am
D                       Em
i am not a tailor i'm a man


[Verse 3]

G             C        G
the king he is frightened
D            G          Em
with shadows behind his back
 C                        G
tailor sew me a cloak of sable
  G
that will disguise me well
   D       G         Em
from the daggers of my foes
 C
that will keep me far above
     G           F
those that are below
C
i will pay you dearly
                     G       Em
if you fail on the gallows


[Chorus 3]

D
no said the tailor
G            D   G
the tailor said no
D
a cloak will not hide
Em                  C
what your own eyes see
C
a cloak will not change
G               F
what is hidden underneath
C
just as mine does not confine
      G
the idea of what i am
D                       Em
i am not a tailor i'm a man