Biography:
Jack Hardy is "a more literate Celtic Townes Van Zandt, grave in his tone and generous in his ideals, as rooted in the present soil and sky of Ireland and America as he is fascinated by the legends of the past" (Roy Kasten, St. Louis Riverfront Times, February 3, 1999).
It is a strange mix of themes ranging from the American West to the ballads and jigs of Celtic ancestors that somehow seems to make sense in the musical world Jack Hardy has created.
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[Verse 1]
G C G
the king's guardsman's greedy
D G Em
he's underpaid he knows
C G
tailor sew me a cloak of indigo
G
that will disguise me well
D G Em
for the highwayman's game
C
no one will suspect evil
G F
and the king's cross are the same
C
i will pay you dearly
G Em
with half of what i claim
[Chorus 1]
D
no said the tailor
G D G
the tailor said no
D
a cloak will not hide
Em C
what your own eyes see
C
a cloak will not change
G F
what is hidden underneath
C
just as mine does not confine
G
the idea of what i am
D Em
i am not a tailor i'm a man
[Verse 2]
G C G
the king's queen is hungry
D G Em
for the pleasures adultery knows
C G
tailor sew me a cloak of scarlet
G
that will disguise me well
D G Em
for courting on the sly
C
that will make the fever
G F
transparent to the night's eyes
C
i will pay you dearly
G Em
with favors and with sighs
[Chorus 2]
D
no said the tailor
G D G
the tailor said no
D
a cloak will not hide
Em C
what your own eyes see
C
a cloak will not change
G F
what is hidden underneath
C
just as mine does not confine
G
the idea of what i am
D Em
i am not a tailor i'm a man
[Verse 3]
G C G
the king he is frightened
D G Em
with shadows behind his back
C G
tailor sew me a cloak of sable
G
that will disguise me well
D G Em
from the daggers of my foes
C
that will keep me far above
G F
those that are below
C
i will pay you dearly
G Em
if you fail on the gallows
[Chorus 3]
D
no said the tailor
G D G
the tailor said no
D
a cloak will not hide
Em C
what your own eyes see
C
a cloak will not change
G F
what is hidden underneath
C
just as mine does not confine
G
the idea of what i am
D Em
i am not a tailor i'm a man
G C G
the king's guardsman's greedy
D G Em
he's underpaid he knows
C G
tailor sew me a cloak of indigo
G
that will disguise me well
D G Em
for the highwayman's game
C
no one will suspect evil
G F
and the king's cross are the same
C
i will pay you dearly
G Em
with half of what i claim
[Chorus 1]
D
no said the tailor
G D G
the tailor said no
D
a cloak will not hide
Em C
what your own eyes see
C
a cloak will not change
G F
what is hidden underneath
C
just as mine does not confine
G
the idea of what i am
D Em
i am not a tailor i'm a man
[Verse 2]
G C G
the king's queen is hungry
D G Em
for the pleasures adultery knows
C G
tailor sew me a cloak of scarlet
G
that will disguise me well
D G Em
for courting on the sly
C
that will make the fever
G F
transparent to the night's eyes
C
i will pay you dearly
G Em
with favors and with sighs
[Chorus 2]
D
no said the tailor
G D G
the tailor said no
D
a cloak will not hide
Em C
what your own eyes see
C
a cloak will not change
G F
what is hidden underneath
C
just as mine does not confine
G
the idea of what i am
D Em
i am not a tailor i'm a man
[Verse 3]
G C G
the king he is frightened
D G Em
with shadows behind his back
C G
tailor sew me a cloak of sable
G
that will disguise me well
D G Em
from the daggers of my foes
C
that will keep me far above
G F
those that are below
C
i will pay you dearly
G Em
if you fail on the gallows
[Chorus 3]
D
no said the tailor
G D G
the tailor said no
D
a cloak will not hide
Em C
what your own eyes see
C
a cloak will not change
G F
what is hidden underneath
C
just as mine does not confine
G
the idea of what i am
D Em
i am not a tailor i'm a man
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