Buy more stock in roses
Millionaires will always woo
Don't be shocked if roses
make a millionaire of you
(The only requirement, when playing this song, is that you wear sunglasses)
Love is like jazz
You make it up as you go along
and you act as
if you really knew the song
but you don't
and you never will
so you flaunt your mistakes
and you make them until
they were you
Love is like jazz
the same song a million times
in different ways
"Strange Fruit" with
and without wind chimes
It's divine
It's asinine
It's depressing
and it's almost entirely
window dressing
but it'll do
3. When My Boy Walks Down the Street
D:x00232 A:002220 C:032010 G:320033
Grand pianos crash together
D A
G D
when my boy walks down the street
D A
C G
There are whole new kinds of weather
D A
G A
when he walks with his new beat
Everyone sings hallelujah
when my boy walks down the street
Life just kind of dances through ya
from your smile down to your feet
D
(C): Amazing
G
D A
he's a whole new form of life
D
blue eyes blazing
A
D A C G D A G A
and he's going to be my wife.
The world does the hula-hula
when my boy walks down the street
Everyone thinks he's Petula
so big and yet so petite
Butterflies turn into people
when my boy walks down the street
Maybe he should be illegal
He just makes life too complete (C)
G
D A
C
Oh, shadows of echoes of memories
G
D
002230 A
Oh, things that he brings that he found in the sea
Oh, shadows of echoes of memories of songs
Oh, how could he know that it won't be long (C)
Grand pianos crash together
when my boy walks down the street
There are whole new kinds of weather
when he walks with his new beat
Everyone sings hallelujah
when my boy walks down the street
Life just kind of dances through ya
from your smile down to your feet
4. Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
Bb:688766 Eb:668886
Bb
There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old
We can rock all day in rocking chairs of gold
Eb
Bb
but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing
F:8-8-10-10-10-8 Bb F Eb F Bb
There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old, my love
There'll be time enough for talk in the nursing home
Darling, time enough to write an epic poem
but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing
There'll be time enough for talking in the home, my love
There'll be time enough for sleeping when we're dead
You will have a velvet pillow for your head
but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing
There'll be time enough for sleeping when we're dead, my love
There'll be time enough for sex and drugs in Heaven
when our pheromones are turned up to 11
but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing
There'll be time enough for sex and drugs in Heaven, my love
and time enough for rocking when we're old
D:x00232 A:002220 G:320033 F#m:244222
Everybody knows but me
Em:022000 A:002220 Em
A
when you go where you shouldn't be
Everybody knows but me
where you go when you're feeling free
Em A
D A G F#m Em A
Everybody knows but me
So you go there for a laugh
You just go to take photographs
To believe that, I'd be daft
but yes I think you go for a laugh
D
A
And you say, I love you honey
G
Very funny
INTRO, INTERLUDE: D:x00232, G:320033, D, G, D
D G
D
If I was the Grand Canyon
G A:002220
I'd echo everything you say
G D
but I'm just me
F#:244322 G
I'm only me
D
A G
and you used to love me that way
D
A D
so you know how to love me that way
If I was Paul Bunyan
I'd carry you so far away
but I'm just me
I'm only me
and you used to love me that way
so you know how to love me that way...
Am:002210
G:320033
If you don't
mind
F:133211
why don't you
mind
Where is your sense of indignation
You are too kind
Much too kind
C:032010
G
F
Where is the madness
that you promised me
C
G
F E:022100
Where is the dream for which I paid dearly
When things go wrong I sing along
It is the nature of the business
But you're not here to make my sad songs more sincere
No one will ever love you honestly
No one will ever love you for your honesty
No one will ever love you honestly
No one will ever love you for your honesty
INTRO, INTERLUDE: C:032010, G:320033, F:133211, C, F, G
C G
Dm:x00231 Em:022000
Softly the crystals falling on 17th
Street
Am:002210
F G
do their dance and die and are gone
Em C
G Dm
Millions of crystal balls roll around your feet
Em
G
and nothing gets done
C
An hour goes by
F
She doesn't
Dm F C
G
(C): If you don't cry it isn't love
Dm F G
C
If you don't cry then you just don't feel it deep enough
Dying all day in thousands of little ways
Dancing alone and drinking a lot
Closing the clubs and haunting the cabarets
looking for what
Another five years off your life (C)
A year goes by
She doesn't (C)
G:320033 C:032010
D:x00232
I will stay if
you let me stay
C
Em
and I'll go if you let me go
but I won't go far away
because you're my only home
I will hide what you want hidden
and I'll roam if you say roam
but I'd just as soon you didn't
because you're my only home
G C
Em D
When you cancel dinner plans
When you cross the street and you don't take my hand
When you make impossible demands
Em
G D
I wish I didn't understand, but...
10. (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
Eb:668886
Ab:466544
I built a ship with my own hands
to take us to the moon
I took a pen in my own hand
and wrote you a hundred tunes
Bb:688766 Ab
Eb Bb
(C): Now I'm crazy for you but not that crazy
Ab
(Eb Bb - played in 3rd chorus)
I'm crazy for you but not that crazy.
I pretended you were Jesus
you were just dying to save me
I stood beneath your window
with my ukulele
I made my yard a playground
just in case we had a baby (C)
I treated you like radium
I treated you like God
You were my glass menagerie
Did you not find that odd
I dwelt within and went without
and broke my virgin flesh
I performed acts of devotion
as if you were Ganesh, but (C)
Db:446664 Eb:668886
Billie you're a miracle
Ab:466544
Db
and God knows I need one
Eb
Sing me something terrible
Ab
Db
that even dawn may come
Bbm:688666
Db
You and me, we don't believe
Eb
in happy endings
Eb
Ab
(C): Hey, Lady Day,
Db
Eb
can you save my life this time
Can you cry so beautifully
you make my troubles rhyme
Hey, Lady Day,
can you save my life again
Eb Ab
Db
My only love has gone away
Eb
Bb:688766
Will you be my only friend.
Billie you're a genius <-- since
this verse has one more line
enough to be a fool
than the first, simply repeat the
a fool to gamble everything C# D# G# C#
sequence one more time
and never know the rules
before the A#m C# D# sequence.
Some of us can only live
in songs of love and trouble
Some of us can only live in bubbles (C)
F#:244322 B:224442 F# C#:446664
What if the show couldn't go on
F# C#
What if we all got jobs
B F#
C#
and got to bed before dawn
What if Old Joe had to retire
What if all the stage hands were let go or fired
C#
B F#
That's just like what the world would be
C#
B
If you fell out of love with me
F#
(C): I can't let this happen to you
B
Don't you let it happen to me
C#
B
What would our friends and family say
F# C#
if they could only see
If you let this happen to us
don't think you'd be setting me free
C#
B F#
(Wasn't it you and I who made) <-- only in the 3rd chorus
Wasn't it you and I who made
promises of eternity? <-- don't end on C# in 3rd chorus
What if the lights didn't go on
What if the velvet curtain
had to be taken down
What if the clowns couldn't be clowns
and all those painted smiles
gave in to plaintive frowns
What if no show ever happened again
<-- for the extra line,
No Seven, no 8 1/2, no Nine, and no "10"
play the sequence
All numbers and no mystery
F# B F# C# F# C# B F# C#
No promise of eternity (C) (C)
INTRO: G:320033, Am:002210, C:032010, D:x00232
G Am
C
When the rhythm calls the government falls
D
G Am C D
Here come the cops
From Tokyo to Soweto
viva la musica pop
We are black & white and we dance all night
down at the hop
and the letters were tall on the Berlin Wall
viva la musica pop
So if you're feeling low
stuck in some bardo
I, even I know the solution
love, music, wine and revolution
love, love,
love, music, wine and revolution
This too shall pass so raise your glass
to change and chance
and freedom is the only law
shall we dance...
W! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.!
W! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.!
G:320033 D:x00232 C:032010
G
Washington, D.C., it's paradise to me
Am:002210
C
G D
It's not because it is the grand old seat
of precious freedom and democracy, no no no
C
Em:022000 Am
It's not the greenery turning gold in fall
G D
D7:x00212
the scenery circling the Mall
Am
C
G
It's just that's where my baby lives, that's all
Washington, D.C., it's the greatest place to be
It's not the cherries everywhere in bloom
It's not the way they put folks on the Moon, no no no
It's not the spectacles and pageantry
the thousand things you've got to see
It's just that's where my baby waits for me
W! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.!
W! ASH! ING! TON, baby, D.C.!
Washington, D.C., it fits me to a T
It's not the people doing something real
It's not the way the springtime makes you feel, no no no
It ain't no famous name on a golden plaque
that makes me ride that railroad track
It's my baby's kiss that keeps me coming back
C
D
G
It's my baby's kiss that keeps me coming back
B:224442
If someone told me you'd be here
G#m:466444
whispering these familiar things
E:022100
F#:244322
talking to my little pets
E F#
smoking the same old cigarettes
B
I would have laughed
I saw you last in summertime
You said you hated long goodbyes
You said there's nothing to explain
in every life a little rain
et cetera
B
E B
(C): And a long-forgotten fairytale
E B
F#
is in your eyes again
and I'm caught inside a dream world
where the colors are too intense
B
and nothing is making sense
There's a floating town of eiderdown
in a mist of mystery
There's an old enchanted castle
and the princess there is me
decked out like a Christmas tree.
I guess you've had your little joke
but I have lost my sense of humor
My medication's wearing off
or it's just not strong enough
to cover this
and then you kiss me like before
and I find myself wanting more
and you tell that little lie
that kept me hypnotized:
another kiss (C)
If someone told me I'd succumb,
if someone said I'd be so dumb
after all the sleepless nights
when I turned on all the lights
I would have hit them
but I have turned the other cheek
My voice trembles, my knees are weak
and you beat me once again
and I know what happens then:
you raise the ante (C) <-- only the first half of the chorus
Db:446664 Gb:244322
Db
He is my lord, He is my saviour
(Gb) Db Gb
Ab:466544 <-- (Gb) only played in 1st verse
and He rewards my good behavior
Gb Db
Gb
My secret soul, I know He's seen it
Db
Ab
Gb
He says, come here baby and kiss me like you mean it
Db
Ab
Gb
He calls me baby, says kiss me like you mean it
INTERLUDE: Db Gb Db Gb Db Gb Db
He is my light and salvation
He's always right, He's always patient
I pinch myself It's like I'm dreaming it
He says, come here baby and kiss me like you mean it
He calls me baby, says kiss me like you mean it
INTERLUDE
Gb Db
Cb:224442 Gb
He is my love, He's always been it
He says, come here baby and kiss me like you mean it
He calls me baby, says kiss me like and you mean it
Note: this is not a direct transcription, just an interpretation
E------3-------3-------3-------3----
B------3-------3-------3-------3----
G----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--
D--------------------------0--------
A-----------------------------------
E--3-------2-------0----------------
I like your twisted point of view, Mike <-- play the above for this line
C:032010
Em:022000 Am:002210 D:x00232
I like your questioning
eyebrows
You've made it pretty clear what you like
It's only fair to tell you now
Em
D
C Em
that I leave early in the morning
Am
D
and I won't be back till next year
I see that kiss-me pucker forming
but maybe you should plug it with a beer, cause
G:320033 D
(C): Papa was a rodeo
C
G
Mama was a rock'n'roll band
D
I could play guitar and rope a steer
C
D
before I learned to stand
G
D
Home was anywhere with diesel gas
C
G
Love was a trucker's hand
G
D <-- in the 2nd
and 3rd choruses, instead
Never stuck around long enough of playing G D
C Em here, play the
tab from above
C
Em
for a one-night stand
Am
G <-- in the 2nd and 3rd choruses,
Before you kiss me you should know
play C instead of Am
C D
play tab from above, then C D x00233 D (1st chorus)
Papa was a rodeo.
or C Em Am D (2nd chorus)
or C D G (3rd chorus)
The light reflecting off the mirror ball
looks like a thousand swirling eyes
They make me think I shouldn't be here at all
You know, every minute someone dies
What are we doing in this dive bar
How can you live in a place like this
Why don't you just get into my car
and I'll take you away I'll take that kiss now, but (C)
And now it's 55 years later
We've had the romance of the century
After all these years wrestling gators
I still feel like crying when I think of what you said to me (C)
What a coincidence, your Papa was a rodeo too
Db:446664 Gb:244322
Ab:466544
"Caution: to prevent electric shock
Db
Ab
do not remove cover
Gb
Ab
No user-serviceable parts inside
Gb
Ab
Refer servicing to qualified
Gb Ab Db
service personnel"
Bbm:688666 Db Ab
Let this be the epi - taph for my heart
Eb
Bbm Db
Ab Eb
Cupid put too much poison in the dart
Bbm Db Ab
This is the epitaph for my heart
Eb Db
Ab Eb
because it's gone, gone, gone
Bbm Db Ab Eb
and life goes on and on anon
Bbm Db
Ab Eb
and death goes on, world without end
Db Ab Eb
and you're not my friend
Bbm Db Ab Eb
Who will mourn the passing of my heart
Bbm Db
Ab
Will its little droppings climb the pop chart
Eb Db Ab
Eb
Who'll take its ashes and, singing, fling
Db Ab Eb
them from the top of the Brill Building
And life goes on, and dawn, and dawn
and death goes on, world without end
and you're not my friend
G:320033 C:032010 G
I've seen you laugh at nothing at all
D:x00232 Em:022000
I've seen you sadly weeping
C G
C G
The sweetest thing I ever saw
D
C
was you asleep and dreaming
G D
Well you may not be beautiful
C
Em
but it's not for me to judge
G
D
I don't know if you're beautiful
C
because I love you too much
I've seen you laugh at nothing at all
I've seen you sadly weeping
The sweetest thing I ever saw
was you asleep and dreaming
I've seen you when your ship came in
and when your train was leaving
The sweetest thing I ever saw
was you asleep and dreaming
20. The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
Db:446664 Ab:466544
Gb:244322 Db Ab
So the sun goes down and the world goes dancing
and the stars come out and they all go dancing
Gb Db
Ab
and there is nothing I'd like more
Gb
Bbm:688666 Ebm:668876 Ab
than a twirl across this rickety old floor
Well I don't know why but I just feel like dancing
I can't imagine why but I feel like dancing
and there is nothing in this world
Gb Db Ebm
that I'd like better than a twirl
Bbm
Ebm Ab <-- second time
through, play Gb
across your rickety old floor instead of
Ebm
Db
Ab
Maybe it's you
Ebm
You know your eyes are awful blue
Maybe it's more
Maybe you're all I've ever waited for
Db Bbm
Db
after all the endless nights
Gb
Ab
when I wished I could still cry...
21. The Way You Say Good-Night
C#:446664
So faraway and so alone
how could I ever take you home
F#:244322 C#
You're beautiful, beautiful
You've a got a devastating point of view
and everything you say is true
You're beautiful, beautiful
B:224442
F#
C#
The nightbirds start to sing their favorite song:
B
F# C#
"The Way You Say Good-Night"
The nightbirds start to sing their favorite song
and the moon begins to sing
I kiss you and the sun goes down
How come it's always dark when you're around
You're beautiful, beautiful
The nightbirds sing their favorite song
The moon begins to sing
You're beautiful, beautiful
The stars begin their Busby Berkeley dance:
"The Way You Say Good-Night"
and the night becomes a musical extravaganza:
The Way You Say Good-Night
C#
F#
The way you say good-night
C#
I dream of all day long
F#
C#
Oh, I could write a song about the way you say good-night...
22. Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
G:320033
Abigail
C:032010 G
D:x00232
can you feel my heart in the palm of your hand
Em:022000
C:032010
G D
and do you understand
why I can't stay
Abigail
and evil wind is blowing through the land
and they need every man to drive it away
C
Em
(C): When I come home if I come home
G D
you'll be a grown woman
C
Em
When I come home if I come home
C
don't be alone,
G
D G
Abigail, belle of Kilronan.
Abigail
's gonna be the beauty of County Galway
and she will live always in a world of love
G
Abigail
C
Em
I'm off to the war but you can be sure
G
D
I will know you're what I'm fighting for
I'm off to the war but you can be sure
I will know you're what I'm fighting for
I'm off to the war but you can be sure
I will know you're what I'm fighting for (C)
G:320033
A:002220
Bang there was
you
C:032010 G
too gold too blue
You told the truth
I cried You flew
(C):You called me mad (and I am mad)
as a hatter
Some fall in love
I shatter.
You make it rain
Too bleak, too stark
Should night not fall
you make things dark (C)
Bang here am I
No one nowhere
no ground no sky
no light no air (C)