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Francesco Bugs Song by Jam Mechanics
Francesco Bugs Song
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:4th fret
[Verse]
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Franceso is the mayor of a city by the shore its
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on the southern tip of Italy known for tuna fish and tourists
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he books a meeting, sends an email, poses for the local paper
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one more email, has that meeting, off to dinner with his neighbors
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that's Francesco
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Francesco, he was named after a saint called Padre Pio
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who reportedly fought demons, claimed he parlato con dio
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He says a prayer, goes to mass, and poses with a little wafer
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one more prayer, one more sip of wine then pranzo with his neighbors
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that's Francesco
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And though he’s not producing miracles or guiding wayward spirits homes
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I wonder if Francesco thinks about it
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yeah, I wonder if Francesco thinks about it.
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But in March of 241 BC the Roman and Phoenician Fleets
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began a battle in the sea just off the coast of Sicily
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So many bodies on the beach, they turned it red, now theirs to keep
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they built a tower on the hill, passed back and forth through history
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The Romans and Aragonese, the Normans and the Genoese
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but now it's ruled by Angelo who runs the gift shop at its feet
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and now I think about that abandoned fort
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the bodies stacked on that bloody shore
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how long it took to clear the port
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2000 years of tug of war
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Now long after the Fall of Rome
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An office chair usurps the throne
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A modern mayor scrawls his name on
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permits for a loading zone
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It hasn’t always been this way
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it hasn’t always been this way
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and I wonder if Francesco thinks about it
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yeah I wonder if Francesco thinks about it
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