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Last King Of America

from Somebody Said by LEE DESTY

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Last King of America
V1
Wednesday afternoon , on the Friends acute ward , the nurse is giving out the meds
Some patients need more time and space , still asleep in their beds
Met a man wearing a party paper crown , who’d once taught history at school
Lovingly called “our resident royal”, troubled Michael was nobody's fool.
When he lost his wife of twenty five years , darkness descended on his tragedy
He took refuge in the world of George the Third, liked being called ‘ Your Majesty”
Chorus
Met the Last King of America , in a Cambridgeshire psych
So much spirit , so much he knew, so much about him I liked
Met the Last King of America, his throne was a plastic chair
He ruled nobody and he was going nowhere
He ruled nobody and he was going nowhere

V 2
He talked of his beloved Queen Charlotte at Kew, of watching his children grow
Great affairs of state and court’s intrigues , follies that come and go
He asked : “Is it true that America is lost , must we fall beneath the blow ?”
Some things are just to hard to bear, a monarch’s feelings he couldn't show
After a while he drifted off to sleep, on the floor lay his tattered crown
Was he hearing the band at Yorktown where “The World Turned Upside Down” ?

Chorus
Met the Last King of America, in a Cambridgeshire psych
So much spirit, so much that he knew, so much about him I liked
Met the Last King of America, his throne was a plastic chair
He ruled nobody and he was going nowhere
He ruled nobody and he was going nowhere

(C) PRS UK 2022 Lee Desty

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from Somebody Said, released March 15, 2022

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Lee Desty Southampton, UK

Southampton born singer songwriter. Winner of 2017 Hollywood Song Contest.
Has now issued 3 albums of original folk pop and 2 singles.
Destined for greatness but behind schedule.😊

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