The Night the Pugilist Learned How to Dance Tabs & Lyrics by Sting
The Night the Pugilist Learned How to Dance
guitar tabs lyrics
The Night The Pugilist Learned How To Dance by Sting from The Last Ship album
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Key: B Major, afterwards modulate to C Major
Time: 3/4
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In the
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streets around here there was nobody tougher than me
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I was
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quick with me fists and fast with me footwork as
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you can plainly see But while
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fighting was useful for getting your way among the
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toughs of the town where you could hold sway There
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had to be something that was better than this I was
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fifteen years old and I'd never been kissed Well of
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course she'd ignore me, her friends would all sneer at me
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bloody nose dripping and me cauliflower ear for it's
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hard to convince in a romantic pose with a
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lovely black eye and a broken nose where a
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girl is attracted to skills more refined than the
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pugilist's art, and so I inclined to
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take meself serious as a modern romancer and I
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secretly learnt all the moves of a dancer ye
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swing to the left, ye swing to the right keep your
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eyes on your partner, more or less like a fight ye just
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follow the rhythm, and ye keep to the beat the
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important thing's never to look at your feet then a
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miracle happens, your mind's in a trance though the
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strategy's subtle, retreat and advance it's
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all about attitude, all in your stance at-
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tention to detail, leaving nothing to chance which
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explains how the pugilist finally learned how to
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dance well, I'd
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waltz with a broomstick and if I was caught i'd
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pretend I was sweeping or practicing sport but I
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really had eyes for your mother ye see wanting
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her to acknowledge this new version of me but now
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everyone's watching, expecting I'll fail but there's
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fire in me belly, there's wind in me sails I
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knew it was risky and I was taking a chance I
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couldn't retreat now, I had to advance so I
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swing to the left, I swing to the right keep me
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eyes on me partner, like I would in a fight I just
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keep to the rhythm and follow the beat the im-
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portant thing's never to look at your feet but a
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miracle's happened, and your mind's in a trance they're
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all laughing and cheering and looking askance on the
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night that the pugilist finally learned how to
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dance it's a
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three-minute round and you're back in yr corner you're
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licking your wounds just like little Jack Horner don't
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let your guard down try a jab with your right or you're
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losing on points by the end of the night then a
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miracle happens, and everyone's screaming you're
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pinching yourself just in case you're still dreaming you've
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taken the initiative, you've taken your chance it's the
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night when this pugilist finally learned how to
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dance in a
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bout where the strategist's bridges were burned where it
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seemed that his fortune had suddenly turned 'twas the
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night that this scrapper was suddenly dapper and this
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poor fellow's heart was still going like the clappers the
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night that the pugilist finally learned how to
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dance
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