Tom: Am
C G/B Gm/Bb F/A
Passing through the corridor I came upon an aging knight
Fm/Ab C/G F#m7
Who leaned against the wall in gnarly armor
G G/F E7
He was on his way to see the king
Fo Fo/Ab Fo/B
Wilson Wilson Wilson
C G/B Gm/Bb
He led me through the streets of Prussia talking
F/A Fm/Ab C/G
As he tried to crush a bug that scurried underneath his boot heel
G G/F E7 Eo
He said there was a place where we should go
F F/F# G G/G#
So he lead me through the forest to the edge of a lagoon by which
Am A/A# F/A
We wandered 'til we reached a bubbly spring
F/A Fm/Ab C/G
The knight grew very quiet as we stood there
G G/F G/E D6 C
Then he lifted up his visor and he turned to me and he began to sing
[Chorus 1]
G
He said I come from the land of darkness
F C
He said I come from the land of doom
G
He said I come from the land of Gamehendge
F C
From the land of the big baboon
G
But I'm never never going back there
F C
And I couldn't if I tried
G
Cause I come from the land of Lizards
F G
And the Lizards they have died
F G
And the Lizards they have died
F G
And the Lizards they have died
F C
And the Lizards they have died
[Piano Solo]
C C/C# Dm Dm7/C G7/D C
C C/C# Dm Dm7/C G7/D
[Verse 2]
C G/B Gm/Bb F/A
He told me that the Lizards were a race of people practically extinct
Fm/Ab C/G F#m7
From doing things smart people don't do
G G/F E7 Fo Fo/Ab Fo/B Fo/D
He said that he was once a Lizard too
C G/B Gm/Bb F/A
His name was Rutherford the Brave and he was on a quest to save
Fm/Ab C/G C6/G
His people from the fate that lay before them
G G/F E7
Their clumsy end was perilously near
F F/F# G G/G#
The Lizards would be saved, he said, if they could be enlightened
Am Am/Bb F/A
By the writings of the Helping Friendly Book
F/A Fm/Ab C/G
In all of Prussia only one existed
G G/F G/E D C
And Wilson had declared that any person who possessed it was a crook
[Chorus 2]
G
He said I come from the land of darkness
F C
He said I come from the land of doom
G
He said I come from the land of Gamehendge
F C
From the land of the big baboon
G
But I'm never never going back there
F C
And I couldn't if I tried
G
Cause I come from the land of Lizards
F G
And the Lizards they have died
F G
And the Lizards they have died
F G
And the Lizards they have died
F C
And the Lizards they have died
[Piano Solo]
C C/C# Dm Dm7/C G7/D C
C C/C# Dm Dm7/C G7/D
[Verse 3]
C G/B Gm/Bb F/A
The Helping Friendly Book, it seemed, possessed the ancient secrets
Fm/Ab C/G F#m7
Of eternal joy and never-ending splendor
G G/F E7 Fo Fo/Ab Fo/B Fo/D
The trick was to surrender to the flow
C G/B
We walked along beneath the moon
Gm/Bb F/A
He lead us through the bush 'till soon
F/A Fm/Ab C/G F#m7
We saw before our eyes a raging river
G G/F E7 Eo
He said that we could swim it if we tried
F F/F# G G/G#
And saying this the knight dove in forgetting that his suit of arms
Am Am/Bb F/A
Would surely weigh him down and so he sunk
F/A Fm/Ab C/G
And as his body disappeared before me
G G/F G/E D C
I bowed my head in silence and remembered all the thoughts that he had thunk
[Chorus 3]
G
He said I come from the land of darkness
F C
He said I come from the land of doom
G
He said I come from the land of Gamehendge
F C
From the land of the big baboon
G
But I'm never never going back there
F C
And I couldn't if I tried
G
Cause I come from the land of Lizards
F G
And the Lizards they have died
F G
And the Lizards they have died
F G
And the Lizards they have died
F G
Whoah Whoah Whoah Whoah Whoah (repeat several times)
Piano Solo: AbMaj7 Gm7 BbMaj7 Am
End on C and hold into the Outro
[Outro]
C G/B Gm/Bb F/A Fm/Ab C/G F#m7 G
EbMaj7 Dm7 AbMaj7 Gm7 F Em Dm7 G
