Paul Shapera - Priscilla And Jasper Play Cards

      [Intro] Cm Ab Db Bbm G

Cm
Club and spade I raise, 
                             Ab
Here in this parlor in this never ending game we play 
        Db                       Bbm            G
And we hide, just you and I, as day fades into day 

Cm
Hidden in our room, 
                         Ab
With a game that no one ever seems to win or lose 
          Db                            Bbm               G
And the shades of flames remain from a world we keep far away 

Cm
Ghosts of towns, ghosts of cities 
Bb
Games that brought its sad demise 
     Ab
The only way to end the game 
G
One who plays must sacrifice 


[Interlude] Cm Ab Db Bbm G

Cm
Diamonds now I raise, 
                                Ab
Outside we’d die and there is nowhere else I’d rather stay 
        Db                             Bbm                          G
In the scrawl beyond these walls in a cold and coarse and vicious place 

Cm
Here where there’s no time, 
                            Ab
There’s no loss or lies or need to speak of sacrifice 
         Db                   Bbm                       G
It’s no way to win a game and why else would a person play? 

Cm
Ghosts of games, you’re always caught in 
Bb
Ones you play but cannot win 
     Ab
The only way the game can die 
G
One who plays must sacrifice 

Ab          Bb              Cm      Db
And on the day we come it’s over 
Fm            Eb                  Ab       Bb       
And you will have your fate laid out and spun, 
        Ab                   Bb               Cm      Db
It’s execution, and you may pray if you get comfort 
Fm            Eb                 Ab    Bb
It’s on that day you’re duty’s done 


Cm


Ab              
Ghosts of Fay, the child I loved 
       Eb
Whose eyes and smile you remind me of 
Fm
In the years I’ve been trapped here 
Eb
Only you I’ve come to love 

   Ab
A ghost am I, one if they knew of 
Eb
Who, with you, they’d come and kill 
Fm
Ghosts of death I wish to die 
Eb
But sacrifice so you might live 

Cm
Ghosts of love, of little girls you 
Bb
Talked and watched as they grew up 
Ab
Ghosts of things and rings and gifts 
     G
You give to them so they might live 

Cm
Ghosts of towns, ghosts of cities 
Bb
Games that brought their sad demise 
     Ab
The only way to end the game 
G
One who plays must sacrifice 

N.C.
Hearts and now I fold, 
You can’t mean that you just dream of death and wish to go? 
You’re my soul, my angel,
The only thing that keeps me whole 

How can you want to die? 
All this time and all these years that slowly pass on by 
You’re alive so I don’t die? 
What kind of twisted sacrifice.

Ab          Bb              Cm      Db
And on the day we come it’s over 
Fm            Eb                  Ab       Bb       
And you will have your fate laid out and spun, 
        Ab                   Bb               Cm      Db
It’s execution, and you may pray if you get comfort 
Fm            Eb                 Ab    Bb
It’s on that day you’re duty’s done 

Cm