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The Night The Pugilist Learned How To Dance Chords & Tabs

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The Night The Pugilist Learned How To Dance by Sting from The Last Ship album
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Key: B Major, afterwards modulate to C Major
Time: 3/4


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                                                              In the
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  streets around   here    there was nobody tougher than me
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                                                             I   was
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 quick with me fists             and fast with me footwork        as
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 you can plainly see                                        But while
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 fighting was useful             for getting your way among the
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 toughs of the town            where you could hold sway        There
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 had to be something        that was better than this        I   was
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 fifteen years old       and  I'd    never been kissed       Well of
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 course she'd ignore me,        her friends would all sneer at me
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bloody nose dripping          and me cauliflower ear          for it's
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 hard to convince               in a romantic pose           with a
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 lovely black eye and a broken nose                         where a
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 girl is attracted               to skills more refined    than the
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 pugilist's art,                 and so I inclined               to
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 take meself serious            as a modern romancer         and I
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 secretly learnt             all the moves of a dancer           ye
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swing to the left,               ye swing to the right      keep your
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  eyes on your partner,      more or less like a fight        ye just
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 follow the rhythm,           and ye keep to the beat           the
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important thing's never           to look at your feet       then a
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 miracle happens,               your mind's in a trance though the
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strategy's subtle,                retreat and advance             it's
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 all about        attitude, all in your stance                   at-
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 tention to detail,          leaving nothing to chance          which
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 explains how the pugilist           finally learned how        to
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 dance                                                      well, I'd
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 waltz with a broomstick          and if I was caught             i'd
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 pretend I was sweeping          or practicing sport          but I
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 really had eyes           for your mother ye see           wanting
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 her to acknowledge         this new version of me           but now
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  everyone's watching,             expecting I'll fail      but there's
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 fire in me belly,           there's wind in me sails             I
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knew it was risky          and I was taking a chance              I
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couldn't retreat now,              I had to advance          so I
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swing to the left,                I swing to the right      keep me
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  eyes on me partner,         like I would in a fight          I just
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 keep to the rhythm              and follow the beat          the im-
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 portant thing's never to look at your feet                   but a
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 miracle's happened,        and your mind's in a trance they're
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  all laughing and cheering      and looking askance         on the
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 night that the pugilist             finally learned how to
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 dance                                                       it's a
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three-minute round        and you're back in yr corner       you're
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 licking your wounds       just like little Jack Horner          don't
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 let your guard down           try a jab with your right      or you're
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 losing on points             by the end of the night        then a
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 miracle happens,                 and everyone's screaming   you're
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 pinching yourself           just in case you're still dreaming  you've
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 taken the initiative,        you've taken your chance     it's the
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 night when this   pugilist          finally learned how to
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  dance                                                                in a
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 bout where the  strategist's bridges were burned           where it
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 seemed that his   fortune had suddenly turned            'twas the
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 night that this scrapper was suddenly dapper               and this
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 poor fellow's       heart was still     going like the   clappers  the
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 night that the pugilist             finally learned how to
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 dance
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