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Company Of Fools Tab

by Great Big Sea


 "Company Of Fools"(Doyle/Russell Crowe) 
  From "Fortune's Favour"(2008)

              
 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: | \| |X4

 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.