Procol Harum - The Idol

      
 
 The Idol Brooker-Reid (a few fill ins and upbeats are missing)
 chorus
 Fm      Fm/Eb Bb7/D Db Gb 
 Oh the idol, 
 Ebm     Ebm/Db Ab7/C Ab Db Eb 
 Oh the idol    
 
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 verse
 Fm             Fm/Eb           Bb7/D Db Gb 
 They knew the monster's every trick 
 Ebm            Gb/Dd         Ab7/C 
 They knew his secrets every stitch
 
 bass:AbCDbEb Ab
 
 Fm     Fm/Eb         Bb7/D Db Gb 
 All of it had been a game 
 Ebm      Gb/Db     Ab7/C Bb Db 
 Nothing but a charlatan 
 
 break
 Eb             Db    Ab              Eb     
 Perhaps there was a chance of coming through
 Eb      Db           Ab               Eb 
 It even seemed that he might think it too
 Gm Cm Eb/Bb F (bass:fga) Bb (bass Ab
 But he could see no point in diving in
 G7                Cm         Cm/Bb  F   F/A Bb  
  But he knew that he would neither sink nor swim
 
 chorus2
     Ab       Cm/G       Fm     Fm/C Fm/D Eb   Eb4-3-2-1-6-1 
 And so they found he'd nothing  left to  say 
 Ab     Cm/G    Fm  Fm/C  Fm/D Eb 
 Just another idol turned to clay
 
 chorus
 
 Db Eb 
   
 verse
 It seemed to them he must know what to do
 They knew that only he could pull them through
 They thought that he would make a plan
 He'd work it out, he'd understand
 
 break
 Like drowning men they clutched at every straw
 They knew that he had saved them all before
 But he could see no point in diving in
 He knew that he would neither sink nor swim
 
 chorus2
 
 chorus
 
 Transcribed by Leif Thiborg 061019