George Iv Couldnt Stand My Wife

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[Verse 1]

    D              A
I'm George IV, the regent king
      C                G
Which means I was just standing in
Bb            D
Acting king because my dad
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George III had gone barking mad (Banana!)
      D         A
Great palaces I did design
C              G
Buckingham was one of mine
Bb               D
Art and fashion, I so rated
     G                  Asus4  A  Asus2  A
(And wives?)That's more complicated


[Chorus 1]

D             G
Actresses and duchesses
    D                 G
The great loves of my life
  Bm         A          G     Em
I loved more girls than I ate pies
     A                  D
But I couldn't stand my wife
                       Bm        A
(He couldn't stand his wife!) Go away!


[Verse 2]

  D                  A
I only married Queen Caroline
C               G
When my debts began to climb
       Bb             D
'Cause if I agreed to tie the knot
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(I said I'd pay off the lot)
        D                  A
But the wedding caused all sorts of strife
       C         G
'Cause I already had a wife
   Bb                  D
(A divorced Catholic?) Dad did sigh
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But the mad old goat just wouldn't die


[Refrain]

Bm
As true king, my reign began
G                      E
Though I was now older than your nan
    A
And as the ruler of our nation
  F#m                    E
I banned my wife from my coronation
    D                A
And knowing now that I did hate her
    D                  G
She promptly died just three weeks later
    Bb                  D
But all those pies that I got through
      G                A
Meant ten years later, I died too

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[Chorus 2]

E*         A*
Actresses, duchesses
    E                 A
The great loves of my life
  C#m                   A     F#
I loved more girls than I ate pies
     B
But I couldn't stand my wife
  E                  A
I had just ten years on the throne
   E            A
Do you remember that?
    C#m            A      F#   B
No, all that you remember is...
                 E  B  E
I was really fat