Intro Dm
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In the
little town of Candor, in the
last year of my youth,
I
learned the final lesson of the
levels to the truth.
My
father was a farmer he’d go
tilling in the ground.
My
mother was a neighbor she’d go
visiting a
round.
But I
didn’t care,
For
I had found the answer to a
plowboy’s lonely prayer.
She was the
daughter of the
Mayor.
The
Mayor fought my courtship, for
he’d made other plans,
He saw her
married to a better man than a
boy with farmer’s hands.
I
said — I hate your father, it’s
so hard not to strike him.
She
said –You know I love you
because you’re so much
like him.
And
so I’d go sneaking in the
evening,
And
there she’d stand a crying in the
dawn as I was
leaving.
But the
Mayor of Candor lied,
When he
offered me his only daughter.
The
Mayor of Candor tried,
To
take her off across the water.
What a thing to do to a
young man in love.
What a thing to do to your
daughter.
Repeat intro
One day with
father on his tractor and
mother off again,
I
go to find the mayor and
work out what I can.
But he
is not at his office, he
is not at his home,
When I
find him in the countryside
he is not
alone.
He is
holding a woman and
imagine my surprise,
As she
jumps back from his arms I look in
to my mother’s
eyes!
The
mayor of Candor lied
All my thoughts of outrage,
embarrassment and pain,
Were
washed away by what came
roaring through my brain.
The
Mayor’s at my mercy and I
hear my own voice say,
Your
run for re-election, sir, is just one
month away.
And the
world will never know of what I’ve
seen here sir,
But
I’ll be with your daughter is my
meaning clear,
sir?
The Mayo
r of Candor lied,
When he
offered me his only daughter.
The
Mayor of Candor tried,
To
take her off across the water.
What a thing to do to a
young man in love.
What a thing to do to your
daughter.
Repeat intro
My
mother looks in horror at the
compromise we made,
But the
Mayor’s rueful smile says the
piper must be paid!
I had a
month of joy in heaven from this
deal I’d made in hell.
What
was to happen then my friend a
prophet could not
tell.
The
day after his re-election and the victory cele
bra
tion,
The Mayor takes his family on a month long foreign vaca
tion.
Oh
Sarah, you know how much I
love you.
There is
no one I’d ever place a
bove you.
Oh
Sarah, you don’t even
know me.
To
have you there’s nothing that’s be
low
me.
The Mayo
r of Candor lied,
When he
offered me his only daughter.
The
Mayor of Candor tried,
To
take her off across the water.
What a thing to do to a
young man in love.
What a thing to do to your
daughter.
Repeat intro
The
day that they return I stand
waiting on the road.
I
watch the car drive up, I watch the
passengers unload.
Of
course she isn’t there. Of
course, I should have known.
The
Mayor says that she is staying. The
decision is her
own.
He said “She’s
finishing her schooling on that
unseen foreign shore.
And I’ll
tell you very frankly, boy,
you’ll not
see her anymore!
The Mayo
r of Candor lied,
When he
offered me his only daughter.
The
Mayor of Candor tried,
To
take her off across the water.
What a thing to do to a
young man in love.
What a thing to do to your
daughter.
Repeat intro
I
spit out my hatred and my
fury at his lies,
When he
says you tried to blackmail me you’re
just as bad as I!
He says — Go
on and do your damndest boy, throw your
mother to the streets!
You
know it’s been too many years I
had to be
discreet.
And as he
stands there saying we’re
just two of a kind,
It
hits me like a thunderbolt ex
ploding in my mind.
As I
look into his aged, wrinkled,
mirror of my own face,
He
laughs and sneers and says, Of course, dear
son,
Where do you think you came from in the first place?
The Mayo
r of Candor lied,
When he
offered me his only daughter.
The
Mayor of Candor tried,
To
take her off across the water.
What a thing to do to a
young man in love.
What a thing to do to your
daughter.
