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[Verse]
C
They called me Margaretha the day that I was born
Dm                 C                   G
The day I died the soldiers called me H21
        Am                     F
In the circuses and palaces, a hundred names I've borne
         C                          G
From the Belle of the Epoque to the eye of the storm
       Am                             G       C
But if anybody asks, I named myself after the sun

        C
I was a teacher when I was young
      G             C
But I ran away from home
       F               G          F
To the East Indies and warm, warm sun
                   G   C
To wed a man I did not know
                  G  C
He called me Lady MacLeod
        G             C
But the times did not allow
       F         C        G       Em  F
My complaints as drinking dragged him down
                    G C
So in dancing peace I found


[Verse 2]
C
They called me a tourist when I began to dance
   Am          C                        G
An amateur and courtesan when I came to France
       Am                    F
On the stages, in the salons, I held my tongue
      C                          G
I was never owned by any man nor known by anyone
       Am                             G       C
And if anybody asks, I named myself after the sun

    Am                   G   C
I never cared much for their war
        G               C
I had seen men fight before
                       G           Em  F
Seen the sickness in their esprit de corps
                    G      C
I would dance for them no more
                   G   C
They came to take me away
            G           C
From the Hotel Champs Elysée
         F        C       G    Em  F
Told the soldiers I've nothing to say
                            D7
They wouldn't have listened anyway
 E7                        Am       A      F
Too many men had died, and somebody had to pay
                    G         C
They set a date for my dying day


[Bridge]
       Dm                                C
But as I stood in that killing field, refusing a blindfold
F                Am               D
Staring down the soldiers and the hatred of the world
           Dm                          Am             C 
I felt the warmth of the Malay sun and I smiled for them all
         Am                    
They all thought they had the best of me
        D                             G             G7
But not one of them could say what I was called


[Verse 3]

Just before the darkness came

I whispered my real name
                            F
I am Mata Hari, eye of the day
                      G       C
In the cells my body lay unclaimed

C     G     Am    F    C   G7

Am                         G              F
If anybody asks, I named myself after the sun
Am                          G              C
If anybody asks, I named myself after the sun