Standard (EADGBE)

  Bring on the Clowns

  The Jokers and Buffoons

  I’ve had the Time of my Life

  And the Life of my Time

  In the Company of Fools

  Many a truest word

  has been spoken by the Jester

  Standing against the tide

  Is the noblest of gestures

  little pearls of wisdom

  That tumble from the light

  Can make us laugh until we cry

  Because we know that they are right

  Within the strangest people

  Truth can find the strangest home

  So meet me in the village

  Where all we idiots go (go!)

CHORUS, followed by:

  Na na natineutinee, na na natineutinee

  na na natineutinee, natineutnee na (ho!)

I’m wading through the quicksand

In the gardens of the gentry

Blooming vacuity

Leaves mind and pockets empty

Now,In the Social Order

I accept the bottom rung

until the wine is pouring

And the Lord commands a song

So,Meet me at the staff door

When the posers all go home

We’ll gather with the other Fools

And put on a proper show (show!)

CHORUS X2, "na na...", then Bridge:

  So here’s to the Poorest Poet

  Who always pens the truth

  an' the Players Writers,Gypsies an'

  The Minstrels and their tunes

  I’d rather live an honest lifetime

  With those with nothing to lose

  Than waste a night

  Knee deep in shite

  That’s polished slick

  To look just right

  I’d rather live a lifetime

  In the Company of Fools

Break

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Within the strangest people

Truth can find the strangest home

So meet me in the village

where all we idiots go

(all we idiots,all we idiots go)

Chorus

Acapella)

"Na Na..."

Break chords

double time)

to fade, with ad lib.