Left At London – Ballad Of Marion Zioncheck Chords on Piano & Ukulele

[Verse 1: Left at London]
Ab
Marion, born December 5th,
a Sagittarius
Ab
Mother & father, two little sisters,
all were immigrants
Bbm7
America was waiting for you
Eb
America was waiting for you
Ab
Marion’s family saw his
humor as absurdity
Ab
Nevertheless, he joined
the local university
Bbm7
And studied for a third of his life
Eb
He studied for a third of his life
And passed the bar
Fm7      Eb                  Ab
He was a lawyer, working for free
        Db        Eb
And was fervid in speech
Fm7        Eb                Ab
All of the workers that he’d protect
       Db             Eb
Say he practiced what he preached

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[Verse 2: Left at London]
Ab
Hated the mayor, so he petitionеd
to recall the guy
Ab
For he attеmpted selling
off Seattle City Light
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Two hundred thousand names on the form
Eb
Two hundred thousand names on the form
Ab
He, with the people on his side,
became a congressman
Ab
Winning a district often taken
by Republicans
Bbm7
To Washington from Washington State
Eb
To Washington from Washington State
At thirty-two
Fm7             Eb       Ab
When re-elected everyone loved him
Db             Eb
Except for his peers
Fm7    Eb              Ab
A coalition set on his downfall
      Db          Eb
Would form in his last years

[Bridge: Left at London]
Ab Ab Cm
         He married a woman he knew
for a week 'cause he couldn’t wait
Ab Ab Cm                Db
         Took part in a riot while
                      Eb
         still on his honeymoon
Ab Ab Cm
         They took him away in
         a jacket to the sanitarium
Ab Ab Cm               Db
         Declared as insane,
                        Eb
jumped the fence of the place,
& soon
Dbm
Returning home,
                 Ab
announced his re-election
Db                       Eb  Eb
Then called the campaign off again
Ab
Almost as if becoming lesser like
                     Bbm7 Eb
yourself had been an art
Ab
Marion, less subdued & sober,
                          Bbm7 Eb
saw the world observe him fall apart

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[Verse 3: Left at London]
Ab
He wrote a note & left his
window several stories high
Ab
Landed abruptly near the car
his wife was waiting by
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They say she changed the
day that he died
Eb
They say she changed the
day that he died
Ab
And in the note, he said his
only hope in life had been
Ab
That he’d improve upon the
way the world was living in
Bbm7
But people only knew him as strange
Eb
The people only knew him as strange
And nothing more
Fm7        Eb                 Ab
Were you a genius, were you a fool
      Db        Eb
Or in need of a cure?
Fm7       Eb               Ab
Was it in anger, was it in fear
       Db         Eb
Or had it been in fervor?

[Outro: Left at London]
Ab
All of the quirks we used to
have are now a symptom of
Ab
Acronyms we don’t get to
know that we’re the victims of
Bbm7
Then people say that
we’ll never change
Eb
And so, of course,
we don’t ever change

But still, we try