The Jaded Gamer's Song

lyrics (c)1983 by Nancy Louise Freeman
tune: "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procal Harum


(Intro: C em am C F am F   G dm G G7 C F  G)

     C  em             am        C
We tripped the vorpal hampsters
F                 am             F
And squished the roaches on the floor
G        dm             G         G7
We were feeling pretty bored by then
     C  em           am  am7
And wished it were a war
           F     am        F
While our sixteenth-level cleric
G               dm          G   G7
And our twenty-ninth-level mage
      C     em      am      C
Took one look at the treasure
             F    am         F
And said it wasn't to their taste

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G         C em am C
And so it was, later,
F       am            F
As the game began to pale
G         dm              G   G7
That the warriors in our party
          C     F          C     (G)
Donned a lighter grade of mail.

(Repeat Intro)

They said, "There is no reason
That we shouldn't look for more."
So we wandered through the dungeon halls
And the DM began to snore
And the players slowly joined him
As if some curse had been imposed
And though my eyes remained open
They might just as well be closed

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