69 Love Songs volume three
 
1. Underwear
2. It's a Crime
3. Busby Berkeley Dreams
4. I'm Sorry I Love You
5. Acoustic Guitar
6. The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
7. Love in the Shadows
8. Bitter Tears
9. Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
10. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
11. Experimental Music Love
12. Meaningless
13. Love is Like a Bottle of Gin
14. Queen of the Savages
15. Blue You
16. I Can't Touch You Anymore
17. Two Kinds of People
18. How to Say Goodbye
19. The Night You Can't Remember
20. For We Are the King of the Boudoir
21. Strange Eyes
22. Xylophone Track
23. Zebra

1. Underwear

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A-------------------------------0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-------------------------------------------
E-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-------------------------0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-
  A     pretty    girl          in    her   un  - derwear

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A-------0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-------------------------------------------
E-0---0-------------------------------------------------0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-
  A     pretty    girl          in    her   un  - derwear

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A-------2---2-2---2-2---2-2---2-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-------------------------------------------
E-0---0-------------------------------------------------0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-
If there's anything better      in this world     who cares

(During the chorus, the following passage is played twice.  Then it is played twice again,
but with the treble guitar part played up one octave.)

E-3---------0-------------------------------------------------------0-----------------------------
B-------------------------1-----------------------4---------0-------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------2-------------------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A-------------------------0-2-3-0-2-3-0-2-3-0-2-3-2-3-5-2-3-5-2-3-5-2-3-5-------------------------
E-0-2-3-0-2-3-0-2-3-0-2-3-------------------------------------------------0-2-3-0-2-3-0-2-3-0-2-3-

La mort, c'est la mort
mais l'amour, c'est l'amour
La mort, c'est seulement la mort
mais l'amour, c'est l'amour

A pretty boy in his underwear
A pretty boy in his underwear
If there's a better reason to jump for joy who cares...
 



 
2. It's a Crime

G:320033 Em:022000  C:032010 D:x00232
It's  a  crime  to  fall in  love
heart and mind and soul in love
It's a crime to fall in love

   G   C     G
so hard so hard

  G
I shouldn't have bothered cause you're just like all the others,

      C                             G
now I know and I won't do that again
I should have guessed that you'd be just like all the rest,
but now I know not to go though that again

Em          C          G                D
  I'm still crying all night and all day
but if I show it someone lock me away cause...

My Mama said gently, you can buy her a Bentley,
but my child she'll only drive it away
I didn't listen cause my brain was missing
and I only found it today
I was a man but now I'm only a child
and if it kills me I am going to smile because...

You won't be hearing from me anymore
cause I can't see through my tears anymore

Em            C        G         D        C
  If it takes years to be any more than a jellyfish

           D
I will not tell you this, because...
 



 
3. Busby Berkeley Dreams

INTRO:  G:320033, D:x00232, C:032010, G, D

 G               D          C
I should have forgotten you long ago

                       D
but you're in every song I know

G           D         C
 Wining and pining is wrong and so

      Am:002210     Bm:224432
on and so forth, of course, of course

    C                 D
but no you can't have a divorce

  G                    D
I haven't seen you in ages

    C                           Em:022000
but it's not as bleak as it seems

D        G                   D
We still dance on whirling stages

      C     G        D
in my Busby Berkeley dreams
The tears have stained all the pages
of my True Romance magazines
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful
Busby Berkeley dreams

And now you want to leave me for good
I refuse to believe you could
You forget we're not made of wood
Well, darling you may do your worst
because you'll have to kill me first...

INTERLUDE:  G, D, C, D, G, D, C, D

G                  D
Do you think it's dangerous

        C     G        D
to have Busby Berkeley dreams?
 



 
4. I'm Sorry I Love You

         Ab:466544           Db:446664
A single rose in your garden dwells

         Ab              Eb:668886
Like any rose it's not itself

         Ab                  Db
It is my love in your garden grows

             Ab Eb            Ab
but let's pretend it's just a rose

         Ab                Db
Well I'm sorry that I love you

       Ab              Eb     Db
It's a phase I'm going through

         Ab                 Db
There is nothing that I can do

        Ab  Eb            Ab
and I'm sorry that I love you

Do not listen to my song
Don't remember it, don't sing along
Let's pretend it's a work of art
Let's pretend it's not my heart...
The rose will fade when summer's gone
The song will fade and I'll be gone
because my heart is dying too
and it's all the same to you...
 


5. Acoustic Guitar

INTRO:
E-------------------------------------0-------------------------------3-2-
B-------------3-2-------------0---------3-----3-2-----------------0-3-----
G-----------2---------2-0-------2---2-------2---------2-0-------0---------
D-------020---------2-------0-----0-------0---------2---------0-----------
A----024----------0-------------------------------0---------2-------------
E-023---------------------3-------------------------------3---------------

E-----------------------------0-----------------------------------
B-----3-2-------------0---------3-----3-2-----3-2-----------------
G---2---------2-0-------2---2-------2-------2---------2-0-----2-0-
D-0---------2-------0-----0-------0-------0---------2-------2-----
A---------0---------------------------------------0-------0-------
E-----------------3-----------------------------------------------
Acoustic guitar, I'm gonna make you a star
Get your picture all over the world

E-------------------------------------------------------------3-2-
B-----3-2-------------0-------3-2-----3-2-----------------0-3-----
G---2---------2-0-------2---2-------2---------2-0-------0---------
D-0---------2-------0-----0-------0---------2---------0-----------
A---------0-------------------------------0---------2-------------
E-----------------3-------------------------------3---------------
Acoustic guitar, you can have your own car
Just bring me back my girl

D:x00232     002222    G:320033         D
  She always loved the sound of your strum

                           G             A:577655 or 002220
You made her think maybe I wasn't so dumb

D              002222       G            D
  She tends to faint at the sound of a drum

E-------------------------------
B-----0------0-------0------0---
G-------2------2-------2------2-
D---0------2-------0------2-----
A--------0--------------0-------
E-3--------------3--------------
cause she's folk
so play and maybe she'll come

Acoustic guitar, how lovely you are
with your inlays of mother of pearl
Be a good guitar and you can go far
Just bring me back my girl
She always said that you were the one
who could make her move her cute little bum
You understand where she's coming from
which I obviously don't
or she wouldn't be gone

INTERLUDE:
E-------------------------------------0-------------------------------0----
B------------23-2-------------0------2--3----23-2-------------0------2--3--
G-----------2--2-2---02-0-------2---2--2-2--2--2-2---02-0-------2---2--2-2-
D-------0204--------2--2-2--0-----04------04--------2--2-2--0-----04-------
A----024----------04------------------------------04-----------------------
E-023---------------------3-------------------------------3----------------

Acoustic guitar, if you think I play hard
well, you could have belonged to Steve Earle
or Charo or Gwar
I could sell you tomorrow
so bring me back my girl

                          This and all subsequent notes are
                          played as harmonics.  Place your
                          finger lightly right over the fret.
                          Hex notation:  C = 12
                          |
                          V
E-------------------------------------
B-----3-2-----------------C-----5-----
G---2---------2-0-------0-----5-----5-
D-0---------2---------0-----5-----5---
A---------0---------2-----------------
E-----------------3-------------------
You'd better bring me back my girl
 


6. The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure

A:002220      G:320033 D:x00232
  I met Ferdinand de Saussure
on a night like this
On love he said "I'm not so sure
I even know what it is
No understanding, no closure
It is a nemesis
You can't use a bulldozer
to study orchids," he said, "so
we don't know anything
you don't know anything
I don't know anything about love
But we are nothing
you are nothing
I am nothing without love"
I'm just a great composer
and not a violent man
but I lost my composure
and I shot Ferdinand
crying, "It's well and kosher
to say you don't understand
but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland!"
His last words were...
His fading words were...
 



 
7. Love in the Shadows

G:320033               F:133211
   The woman with no nose

C:032010              G
   I know where she goes
The old guy with the gold eye
we go back, he and I

G             F
  Don't smile

Eb:668886     F
  We don't do that here, baby

(Repeat the following for the chorus.)
E---------------------------------
B-------3---------------1-----0---
G---------------------------------
D-----5---------------3-----------
A---5---------------3-------------
E-3---------------1---------------

Love in the shadows was never hard to find
but sometimes the moonglow
plays tricks on your mind
Love in the shadows is the only kind

The whispers you hear
are not sweet nothings
Let's have one more beer
and I'll tell you something
Don't laugh
I think you're beautiful...
 



 
8. Bitter Tears

       Gb:244322 Ab:466544         Db:446664 446676 Db
Bitter tears               keep me going
through the years, freely flowing

              Bbm:688666
What have you done

       Ab        Gb         Ab     Db
Only a gun could stop these bitter tears

    Db      Eb:668886 Db    Eb
The endless streets I walk along

    Db        Eb       Bb:688766
you made them seem pretty
but now I dream in country songs
and wake in New York City

        Ab   Eb     Bb
And the only beauty here
is the moon seen through a tear...

I cry because it looks so good
I cry, why not, it's free
and there's nothing more interesting
than crying constantly
and as I tell everyone
crying all the time is fun...
 



 
9. Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget

INTRO:  B:224442 F#:244322 E:022100 B E F# B

B        F#        E        B
Wi' nae  wee bairn ye'll me beget

E     B       F#
Untwinkle, little ee

B     F#      E     B
My ainly pang'll be regret

E    F#    B
A maiden I will dee

INTERLUDE: B F# E B E F# B

(Verses are played exactly like the chorus.)

But I'll turn into a nightingale
My song will warm thy heart
Well I'll turn into a threshing machine
and tear thy bird apart...
But I'll turn into a vampire
and kiss you on the neck
Well I'll turn into a siller cross
and send thee back to Heck...
But I'll turn into a hydrogen bomb
and atomize the air
Well I'll turn into a cockroach
and you'll see if I care...
But I'll turn into a supernova
and burn up everything
Well I'll turn into a black little hole
and you'll turn into string...
But I'll turn into God Himself
and then you'll come to me
Well I will not believe in you
and then where will you be...
My ainly pang'll be regret
A maiden I will dee
 


10. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!

         E:022100          B:224442
Are you out of love with me?

         Dbm:446654       A:002220
Are you longing to be free?

      E                 B
Do I drive you up a tree?

    A       E
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!

Do I drive you up the wall?
Do you dread every phone call?
Can you not stand me at all?
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
Though I need you more than air
is it true you just don't care?
Are you having an affair?
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!

        E                B             A
When we met I thought money was everything

      E                B                  Gb:244322
so I let you buy the house, the car, the ring

       E                  B        A
but I can't take your perpetual whining

                 B
and you can't sing

I thought if we lived apart
we could make a brand-new start
Do you want to break my heart?
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
I've enjoyed making you miserable for years
found peace of mind in playing on your fears
How I loved to catch your gold and silver tears
but now my dear
What a dark and dreary life
Are you reaching for a knife?
Could you really kill your wife?
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
Oh, I die, I die, I die!
So it's over, you and I
Was my whole life just a lie?
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!


11. Experimental Music Love

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12. Meaningless

B:224442
Meaningless?

                       G#m:466444
You mean it's all been meaningless?

              E:022100
Every whisper and caress?

F#:244322                     B
Yes yes yes it was totally meaningless

Meaningless
like when two fireflies fluoresce
Just like everything I guess
it was utterly meaningless
Even less
a little glimpse of nothingness
sucking meaning from the rest of this mess
Yes yes yes it was thoroughly meaningless

E                               F#
  and if some dim bulb should say

                          B
we were in love in some way

                            E
kick all his teeth in for me

             F#               E                F#
and if you feel like keeping on kicking feel free

Meaningless
Who dare to say it wasn't meaningless
Shout from the rooftops and address the press
Ha ha ha it was totally meaningless

B
Meaningless

                    G#m
Meaning less than a game of chess

                               E
Just like your mother said and mother knows best

                           F#
I knew it all the time but now I confess

E         F#                   B
Yes yes yes how deliciously meaningless

          F#                  E
Yes yes yes effervescently meaningless

          F#                      B
Yes yes yes it was beautifully meaningless

          F#                     E
Yes yes yes it was profoundly meaningless
Yes yes yes definitively meaningless
Yes yes yes comprehensively meaningless
Yes yes yes magnificently meaningless
Yes yes yes how incredibly meaningless
Yes yes yes unprecedentedly meaningless
Yes yes yes how mind-blowingly meaningless
Yes yes yes unbelievably meaningless
Yes yes yes how infinitely meaningless


13. Love is Like a Bottle of Gin

(This song is played in the Drop D tuning, where
the lowest E string is tuned down one step to a D)

E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A---------4-----4-----4-----2-----2---2-2-----5-----4-----4-----4-----2-----2---2-2-
D-0-7---0-7-----7---0-7---0-5-----5---5-5---0-7---0-7-----7---0-7---0-5-----5---5-5-

It makes you blind, it does you in
It makes you think you're pretty tough
It makes you prone to crime and sin
It makes you say things off the cuff

E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------------------------7-----7---7-7-
A---A-----9-----9-----9-----7-----7---7-7-----A-----9-----9-----9-----0-----0---0-0-
D---C-----C-----C-----C-----B-----B---B-B-----C-----C-----C-----C-------------------
    ^
    |
    hex notation:  A = 10, B = 11, C = 12

It's very small and made of glass
and grossly overadvertised
It turns a genius to an ass
and makes a fool think he is wise

It could make you regret your birth
or turn cartwheels in your best suit
It costs a lot more than it's worth
and yet there is no substitute

E---------------------------------------------------------------------------C-------
B-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D---------------7-----------------7-----------------------7-----------7-----7---7-7-
A---A-----9-----9-----9-----7-----7---7-7-----A-----9-----9-----9-----0-----0---0-0-
D---C-----C-----C-----C-----B-----B---B-B-----C-----C-----C-----C-------------------
                ^                 ^                       ^                 ^
                |                 |                       |                 |
                These three sevens on the (higher) D string and this C on the E string
                are played as harmonics.  Place your finger lightly right over the fret.
 

They keep it on a higher shelf
the older and more pure it grows
It has no color in itself
but it can make you see rainbows
You can find it on the Bowery
or you can find it at Elaine's
It makes your words more flowery
It makes the sun shine, makes it rain
You just get out what they put in
and they never put in enough

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D---------------7-----------------7-----------C-----------------7-----------------C--- <- all notes on the
A---A-----9-----9-----9-----7-----7---7-7-----5-----------5-----7-----------7-------9-    (higher) D string
D---C-----C-----C-----C-----B-----B---B-B-----9-----------9-----B-----------B-----C---    here are harmonics

Love is like a bottle of gin
but a bottle of gin is not like love


14. Queen of the Savages

G:320033                    C:032010
My girl is the Queen of the Savages

             D:x00232                   G
She don't know the modern world and its ravages

                                    Am:002210
Instead of money she's got yams and cabbages

    D
She lives in a dome

                  D7:x00212 G
I don't care if I never get home

My girl is the queen of the jungle folk
You should see the things we see when we smoke
We think all of life is a funny joke
She's sharp as a tack
I don't care if I never get back
My girl is the queen of ten villages
We live on the fruits of her pillages
She eats other queens, she's very religious
She doesn't use a fork
I don't think I'll go back to New York


15. Blue You

    Em:022000 B:224442               Em   B
The moon             was singing the blues

    Am:002210
The stars in the sky harmonized

           B
singing it too

    Am       B
and I, far below

    Am
was singing low and slow

    B
for you

      Am
and I know

        B                     Em   B Em B
all the world was singing the blues

    Em   B                Em   B
The Queen was singing the blues

    Am
The President played the saxophone
sounded so alone

              B
it was on the news

    Am        B
And from Ursa Minor

        Am                       B
in what looked like an all-night diner

     Em              B
came lonely luminous creatures

      Am         B
whose only human feature

                Em   
was singing the blues

         B  Em B
soft and low

(The interlude and following verse have the same chord
progression as the first verse.)

The blues was singing the blues
The dead in their graves
and the gods in their caves,
they'd been waiting so long
to sing the blue song
about you


16. I Can't Touch You Anymore

              Em:022000
You want to know

        Am:002100       Em  B:224442
if we fell in love too fast

              Em
You want to know

              Am               Em  D:x00232
if this is, well, too good to last

       C:032010           D
You're asking the wrong questions

        G:320033           C
You're opening the wrong doors

    Am
I love you

            A:002220   Em
I can't touch you anymore

            Em         C
I can't touch you anymore

             G                C
There's so much to hate you for

    Am
I love you

            A          Em
I can't touch you anymore

You want to tell me
50 ways you've left your lovers
You want to tell me
how you loved 200 others...


17. Two Kinds of People

E-------------------------------------------------
B---------3-----1-----------------1---------------
G---3-----------------------2-----------3---------
D-3-----------------------3-----------------------
A-------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------

There are two kinds of people:
a) my love and I
b) other
two kinds of people:
1) the gray
and 2) me and my lover
All people fall into two camps
that ever twain shall be:
those lost in darkness without lamps,
and then,
my love and me...
 



 
18. How to Say Goodbye

    Ab:466544        Db:446664   Ab
The only thing that I could ever feel

           Db             Ab
I can't believe it wasn't real

    Db                           Ab
The only thing that I could ever feel

          Db              Ab
I can't believe it wasn't real

    Bbm:688666      Db           Ab         Eb:668886
You can't open your mouth without telling a lie

    Bbm            Db             Ab Db Ab
but baby, you know how to say goodbye

The thing I spent my whole life waiting for
has just walked out and locked the door
The thing I spent my whole life waiting for
has just walked out and locked the door
You can't feel a thing and you won't even try
but baby, you know how to say goodbye
I'm overjoyed to hear about your wedding
I'm writing you to wish you every blessing
I'm overjoyed to hear about your wedding
I'm writing you to wish you every blessing
and I'm so happy I could cry
Oh baby you know how to say goodbye
and I'm so happy I could cry
Oh baby you know how to say goodbye
 


19. The Night You Can't Remember

INTRO: F:133211, Bb:113331, F, C:032010
       Dm:x00231, C, Bb, F, Gm:355333, C, F

  F        C         Bb   F
Before you left your garrison

      Gm                 C
you'd had a drink, maybe two

    F       C      Bb     F
You don't remember Paris, hon

    Gm   C       F
but it remembers you

     Bb       (C)     F           <- C played in second and third verses
It's true, we flew to Paris, dear

 Gm            C
aboard an Army jet

    F                 Bb
the night you can't remember

    Gm      C        F  Bb F C Dm C Bb F Gm C F
the night I can't forget

You said I was terrific, it
meant zilch to you, ah, but I
have our marriage certificate
'n I'll keep it till I die
You were an Army officer
and I just a Rockette
the night you can't remember
the night I can't forget

No rose conveyed your sentiments
not even a petunia
but you've got vague presentiments
and I've got little Junior
You said, Nobody loves me
and I said, Wanna bet?
the night you can't remember
the night I can't forget


20. For We Are the King of the Boudoir

INTRO, INTERLUDE: F:133211, G:320033, C:032010, G

            C
Should time allow us

                G
to describe our prowess

         C                    G
it would be quite hard to overrate

       C                      G
for we are the king of the boudoir, old thing

        F            G       C
and the king doesn't like to wait

C   G     F    C
One tryst with me

F             C               G
and you'll be spinning like a gyroscope

C   G     F    C  F             C   G
One tryst with me and you'll be Pope

Should modesty allow us
to describe our prowesslessnesslessness
'twould be quite hard to overstate
for we are the king of the boudoir, it's true
and the king doesn't like to wait
One kiss from me
and you'll be overjoyed and overawed
One kiss from me and you'll see God
for we are the king of the boudoir, we are
and the king doesn't like to wait


21. Strange Eyes

Em:022000  A:002220  Em                  C:032010
   Strange eyes,     blue clocks without hands
two lives lived in distant lands
little blue mysteries
what did they see in me
Strange eyes, early Picassos
call me even when you don't
if only from pictures
it having been three years
They follow me in all my dreams
Oh God I'm still in love with you
Strange eyes, two little star charts
plunge knives into my poor heart
As lovely as a tree they endlessly recede
Strange eyes, two little whirlpools
made by God to destroy fools
two pearls of inf'nite cost
two paradises lost
They swallow me in all my dreams
Oh God I'm still in love with you
 


22. Xylophone Track

      Bb7:686766        Eb7:668686
To my dear, dear mother

             Bb7
I leave my only shoes

      Eb7
To my dear, dear mother

             Bb7
I leave my only shoes

       F7:131211          Eb7
By the time you read this

                Bb7
I will have died of the blues

Scream little choo-choo
Bang your xylophone track
Keen, stupid choo-choo
Clang your xylophone track
You can wail all night long
but you can't bring her back
I've done so much crying
the flesh has left my bones
I've done so much crying
the flesh has left my bones
I can play my ribcage
like a xylophone



 
23. Zebra

INTRO: Ab:466544, Eb:668886, Db:446664, Ab, Db, Ab, Eb, Ab

Ab
So we got married in Venice in June

Db
So what?

   Eb
We circled the Earth in a hot air balloon

Ab
So what?

and the rest of our lives
is one long honeymoon

      Eb                         Ab   A:577655
well, that doesn't mean we're in love

   Bb:688766
If you really loved me

                         Eb
you'd buy me a beautiful pearl

           F:133211
but you've already bought me

                         Bb
all of the pearls in the world
so there's one thing I crave
                               Eb   F
when my days become ho-hum and blah

           Bb  A
I want a zebra

          Ab
We've got so many tchotchkes

                              Db
we've practically emptied the Louvre

   Eb
In most of our palaces

                         Ab
there's hardly room to manœuvre
Well, I shan't go to Bali today

                     Db
I must stay home and Hoovre

Ab          Eb
up the gold dust

                           Ab   A
That doesn't mean we're in love

   Bb
If you really loved me

                           Eb
you'd buy me the Great Pyramid

    F                             Bb
Oh, I'm so forgetful, you already did
But there's one thing I need

                                  Eb   F
if you won't think I'm greedy, my deah

          Bb
another zebra

            F                  Bb   D:557775
Zelda looks lonely, I want a zebra



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