8…LIKE A WHITE STAR… by Tyrannosaurus Rex
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*from ‘Unicorn’ (1969)*

Verse 1:

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At the birth of the day, as a babe of the spray.
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Like a white star, tangled and far, Tulip, that’s what you are.

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Warm and wise as a mute, in the thunderbolt suit.
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Princely and torn, grasping the horn of the meanads of May.

Verse 2:

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Sleepy, dreaming of dark silver Satyrs in parks.
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Statues that say, worship the day, for only humans you are.

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Channels churning the grime, inky dreams of our time.
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Into the Sun, where the white one, poems them into a rhyme.

Verse 3:

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On a hill, the clear shrill made the Titans most ill.
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Angels a-bound and I kissing the ground, thrilled to be around.

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Vineyards spangled with love, for the white dove above.
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Green and lean from the waste of the pastures of chaste.

Verse 4:

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Preciously he is whole, twinkled eyes like a king,
Charted seas on your skin.
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Like a white star, tangled and far;
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Tulip, that’s what you a -re, a -re, a -re.

Interlude:

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Coda:

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Down down, dup a dippy dippy, down down, dup a dippy dippy,
Down down, dup a dippy dippy, down down, dup a dippy dippy.
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Down down, down down, down down, yeah.

F#
Down down, dup a dippy dippy, down down, dup a dippy dippy,
Down down, dup a dippy dippy, down down, dup a dippy dippy.
Abm B
Down down, down down, down down, yeah.

F#
Down down, dup a dippy dippy, down down, dup a dippy dippy,
Down down, dup a dippy dippy, down down, dup a dippy dippy.
Abm B
Down down, down down, down down, yeah.

F#
Down down, dup a dippy dippy, down down, dup a dippy dippy,
Down down, dup a dippy dippy, down down, dup a dippy dippy.
Abm B
Down down, down down, down down, yeah.

F#
Down down, dup a dippy dippy, down down, dup a dippy dippy,
Down down, dup a dippy dippy, down down, dup a dippy dippy.
Abm B
Down down, down down, down down, yeah.

Outro:

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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)