## Whiter Shade Of Pale (Procul Harum) - STING 21411 (Paul Bristow)

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## (Opener): SIDES FACE GRAND SQUARE

#### We skipped the light fandango

#### - turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick

#### - but the crowd called out for more

#### FOUR LADIES CHAIN and so it was that later

#### CHAIN THEM HOME as the miller told his tale

#### Promenade that her face, at first just ghostly

#### - turned a whiter shade of pale

#### (Figure): FOUR LADIES CHAIN THREE QUARTERS and the HEADS PROMENADE HALFWAY

HEADS LEAD RIGHT and STAR THRU BOYS WALK, GIRLS DODGE I say SINGLE HINGE

GIRLS you TRADE and then you SWING THRU SWING your Girl and you PROMENADE

#### Her face, at first just ghostly

#### - turned a whiter shade of pale

## (Middle Break): SIDES FACE GRAND SQUARE

#### She said, 'There is no reason and the truth is plain to see'
- but I wandered through my playing cards

#### - and would not let her be

(Closer): SIDES FACE GRAND SQUARE

#### She said, 'I'm home on shore leave'

#### - though in truth we were at sea
- so I took her by the looking glass and forced her to agree

#### (Tag): You SWING your Girl That her face, at first just ghostly

#### - turned a whiter shade of pale

ORIGINAL LYRICS:

We skipped the light fandango - turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick - but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder - as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink - the waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later - as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, 'There is no reason - and the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cards - and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins - who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open - they might have just as well've been closed

She said, 'I'm home on shore leave,' - though in truth we were at sea
so I took her by the looking glass - and forced her to agree
saying, 'You must be the mermaid - who took Neptune for a ride.'
But she smiled at me so sadly - that my anger straightway died

If music be the food of love - then laughter is its queen
and likewise if behind is in front - then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard - seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly - and attacked the ocean bed