Strawbs - Hanging In The Gallery Chords & Tabs

song written by Dave Cousins
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Is it the painter or the picture
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Hanging in the gallery?
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Admired by countless thousands
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Who attempt to read the secrets
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Of his vision of his very soul.
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Is it the painter or the picture
Em               D
Hanging in the gallery?
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Or is it but a still life
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Of his own interpretation
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Of the way that God had made us
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In the image of His eye?
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Is it the sculptor or the sculpture
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standing  in the gallery?
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Touched by fleeting strangers
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Who desire to feel the strength of hands
           G     A
That realised a form of life.
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Is it the sculptor or the sculpture
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standing in the gallery?
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Or is it but the tenderness
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With which his hands were guided
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To discard the unessentials
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And reveal the perfect truth?
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Is it the actor or the drama
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Playing to the gallery?
Em               D
Heard in every corner
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Of the theatre of cruelty\par
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That masks the humour in his speech.
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Is it the actor or the drama
Em                 D
Playing to the gallery?
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Or is it but the character
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Of any single member of the audience
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That forms the plot
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Of each and every play?
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Is it the singer or his likeness
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Hanging in the gallery?
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Tongue black, still and swollen,
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His eyes staring from their sockets,
        G                A
He is silent now, will sing no more.
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Is it the singer or his likeness
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Hanging in the gallery?
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Or is it but his conscience,
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Insecurity, and loneliness,
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When destiny becomes at last
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The cause of his demise?
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