The Shining Hour

Am C Dm Are we still on the phone=20 Am C Bm Dm With lady Anna Clarke and her trumpet solo? Am C Dm Whose ghost sings for pay Am C Bm Dm In the blue billiard room of the Monterey Am C Dm For room and for board Am C Bm Dm And the back door key is a 19th century civil war sword Am C Dm Once owned by John Booth Am C Bm Dm =20 Am And he misplaced his script when he caught his leather boot G Am This could be the shining hour G FAm Based on all this mad belief G F Am In money oil and angel powder G F Dm=09 In the new age magazine=20 There=92s a hole in the wall Behind the photograph of Al Capone He=92s sittin=92 down at city hall The police they peek through here And they watch you get dressed in the two-way mirror But it=92s all in good spirits And if you close eyes you can=92t help, help but to hear =91em move This could be the shining hour Based on all this mad belief In the money oil and angel powder In the new age magazine I propose a toast To the memory of the horse who carried King Tut and his gold Into the sun He collapsed last summer from a heat stroke somewhere in the east=20 village, oh=20 And it kills me to think That I=92m no longer living Just looking for excuses to dink So lift up your glass And your Ouija board =91cause I=92m fading, fading, fading fast