Queen Victoria

Tuning: Bb Eb Ab Db F Bb (standard, three(!) full-steps down) 
 
 
Chords: 
Am:     x02210 
F:      133211 
E:      022100 
E‘:     033200 
G:      320003 
C:      x32010 
E/b:    x22100 
 
Am 
Queen Victoria, 
                         F 
My father and all his tobacco loved you 
                            Am 
I love you too in all your forms 
                           F 
The slim unlovely virgin floating among German beards 
          Am 
The mean governess of the huge pink maps 
       F                     E‘   E 
The solitary mourner of a prince 
 
Am 
Queen Victoria 
      F 
I am cold and rainy 
      Am                             G 
I am dirty as a glass roof in a train station 
                          Am 
I feel like an empty cast iron exhibition 
           F 
I want ornaments on everything 
            E‘                            E 
Because my love, she gone with other boys 
 
Am 
Queen Victoria 
               F 
Do you have a punishment under the white lace 
              Am                            F 
Will you be short with her, make her read those little Bibles 
           C                          E/b 
Will you spank her with a mechanical corset 
            Am                         F 
I want her pure as power, I want her skin slightly musty with petticoats 
                          E‘              E 
Will you wash the easy bidet out of her head? 
 
Am 
Queen Victoria 
              F                   Am 
I‘m not much nourished by modern love 
          C            G 
Will you come into my life 
           F                     E‘ 
With your sorrow and your black carriages 
                      E 
And your perfect memories 
 
Am 
Queen Victoria 
F                                         Am 
The Twentieth Century belongs to you and me 
               C             E/b                     Am 
Let us be two severe giants not less lonely for our partnership 
                 F                           E 
Who discoloured test tubes in the halls of Science 
                  C               G 
Who turned up unwelcome at every World‘s Fair 
             Am              G 
Heavy with proverbs and corrections 
   Am 
Confusing the star-dazed tourists 
           F                     E 
With our incomparable sense of loss