1. AS YOU TURN TO GO
Capo the first fret, or transpose down one half step and use
C (032010), F (133211), and G (320033) instead of C#, F#, and G#
C#
F#
G#
E------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------
G-----1-----1------------------------------------------
D---3-----3-----1-------------------------1-----1------
A-4-----4-----3-------1-4---1-4---------3-----3-----1--
E-------------------2-----2-----1-4---4-----4-----2----
C#:143121 or 446664
F#:244322
Let the camera linger on your perfect skin
C#
your widow's peak and your lucky grin
G#:466544
and the bluest eyes I know
F#
C#
as you turn to go
Let there be a record of your gorgeous voice
the turn of phrase that filled my days with joy
something like Bing singing soft and low
as you turn to go
F#
C#
G#
I know I'm not supposed to say I'm sorry
I know you've had more loves than Mata Hari
but you know you're the star of my life story
C#
and I'm so sorry
Let the poets struggle to describe your heart
your art of love and your love of art
Well, if you ever loved me tell me so
as you turn to go
G#
If you ever loved me tell me so
F#
C#
as you turn to go
If you ever loved me tell me so
as you turn to go
INTRO: use the chords from the chorus
A:002220 E:022100
Give me back my dreams
F#m:244222
D:x00232
I've been counting these sheep
A C#m:446654
since I can't remember when
A
E
Give me back my sleep
F#m
D
I'll be dreaming of you
A
E
till I wake up crying again
F#m D
A E
(C): I have lain awake through the longest hours
wondering whether to cry or scream
You can take my heart It was always yours
A
E D
but give me back my dreams
but give me back my dreams.
When the clock strikes three
I don't care anymore
about you or anything
When the clock strikes four
I could sell my soul
just to hear my telephone ring (C)
A
You don't have to talk to me
F#m
the way we used to talk for hours
D
We don't have to talk at all
E
A
but may I send you flowers?
INTRO: F:133211, G:320033, F, G, C:032010
C
Will you dance with me
Take my hands and lead me,
Dm:x00231
with all my faults
in the ballroom waltz
that we might have done
had we ever been young
G
It'll end in tears
but not for years
C
if you dance with me
Will you dance with me,
me, with two left feet
You'd be showing me how
I'm no dancer now
but soon you and I
could step into the sky
We'll go down in flames,
of course, but love remains
if you dance with me
F G
I'll make only sunny weather for you
F
G C
The sky will be blue forever
I'll make only sunny weather for you
to keep me and you together
and you'll dance with me
in the rain, maybe
but we won't really mind
In the end we'll find
it was just a dance
and our little romance
it'll fall to dust
but only just
if you dance with me
it'll fall to dust
but only just
if you dance with me
NOTE: These chords probably aren't exactly right, but they're the
best I could do. I would not recommend using these chords
while
playing along with the CD, nor while sober.
G:320033 F:133211
Surprise! It's me.
G
F
It's drunk. I'm three.
For a couple hours, the city was my dance floor
G
F G
Then I wandered around wondering why you don't love me anymore
Surprise! I'm real.
I think and feel.
And I used to be a person in some way
So I can't imagine why I'm wasting quarters on the telephone to
say:
F C:032010
I've got New York all to myself --
F
C
from the Great White Way to Little West Twelfth;
G
F
from the big blue bridge to the Hudson's swells --
C
I've got New York all to myself
The day is gone; the night is too
Everywhere to go, but nothing to do
I had a lover once, but that fell through
I've got New York, but I ain't got you
Got all New York to be lonely in
Got cigarettes and I've got gin
and thought I feel just like I've got no skin
I've got New York and the winter wind.
INTRO: use the chords from the chorus
E:022100 G#:466544
I spent all day
A:002220 E
C#m:446654 B:224442
dreaming of the way I'd like to hold
you
So I got absolutely nothing done
but it was so much fun and have I told you
A E B
(C): How beautiful you are tonight
just like a movie star
how beautiful you are tonight
just like a movie star.
Quit your job, dear
Then you can stay here at home beside me
You be James Dean
I'll be Sal Mineo, you can hide me (C) (C) (C) (C) (C) (C)
INTRO: C:032010, F:133211, G:320033, C, F, G
C F
G
It was a shallow ocean
C
It was a very blue sky
F
They're not too wide to get around
G
given the old school try
Em:022000
A:002220
and you must have had
F
G
nothing better to do
C F
G
I've been kissing my cigarette
C F G
wishing it was you
True, you gave me the moon
and the silver stars
They float outside the window
of this tedious bar
but just like their master
they just drift in the blue
I've been kissing the bottle
wishing it was you
So Gibraltar has tumbled
The world came to an end
and the joke was on me,
you're not even my friend
but with all my new lovers
and there've been twenty-two
I've been kissing the mirror
wishing it was you
G:320033 D:x00232
C:032010
I haven't got a diamond ring for you
G
D
I have not got a thing for you
All I can really do is sing for you
my lovely Lindy-Lou
Who would have thought that you could care for me
that you could walk on air for me
Say that you will always be there for me
my lovely Lindy-Lou
A:002220
D
and should it rain I'll hold the parasol
and call the raindrops falling stars
and though we'll never get to Paris I'll
build Paris wherever we are
I haven't got a diamond ring for you
I have not got a thing for you
All I can really do is sing for you
my lovely Lindy-Lou
8. NIGHT FALLS LIKE A GRAND PIANO
G:320033 D:x00232
G
Quiet, please: there are leaves falling
D
G D
G
Trees do their striptease, summer is ending
Em:022000
G A:002220
I wonder why you look so far away
Em G
A 002223
against the sky in fifty shades of gray
G D
G
Night falls like a grand piano
G D
G
Outside it could be China
Em G
A
Let's watch the trees that trickled toward the sun
Em G
A
dance in the rain dying to have some fun
G D
G
Thunder sings a requiem
D
G
Lightning is taking pictures
Em
G
A
of everything of every point of view
Em
G
A 002223
Let's go outside and have our picture taken too
G D G
D
I love you.
Cm:335543 G:355433 Bb:113331 F:133211
Priests and fools say
Ab:466544 Eb:668886 G Cm
we are but animate clay,
but rude vessels
housing immortal souls
G
Cm
But the dead only quickly decay
They don't go about being born and reborn
and rising and falling like soufflé
The dead only quickly decay
It would be swell
to see some folks burn in Hell
but when they go
it's just as pleasant to know
that the dead only quickly decay
They don't go about being born and reborn
and rising and falling like soufflé
The dead only quickly decay
10. THE SAILOR IN LOVE WITH THE SEA
Dm:x00231 F:133211 C:032010
Sigh and grow every day paler
Dm F
G
bowed by a mortal ennui
I fell in love with a sailor
a sailor in love with the sea
Cry like Elizabeth Taylor
out on the end of the quay
I fell in love with a sailor
a sailor in love with the sea
G:320033 F:133211
Tahitian hashish and
a vermillion moon
impure kiss of orchids
She's waiting for you
She'll drown you in hot lava
Volcana!
Volcana!
The luau, like, wow!
The limpid lagoons
She tries on your chevron
inflates your balloon
She'll drown you in hot lava
Volcana!
Volcana!
She'll drown you in hot lava
Oh oh in hot lava
Volcana!
Volcana!
12. WALTZING ME ALL THE WAY HOME
G:320033
D:x00232
You were a soldier from the war
C:032010 G
waltzing me all the way home
I'd never seen your kind before
Your every word was a poem
Am:002210
G
Thank you for giving me reasons for living
C
D
more reasons than I'd ever known
Am
G
Thank you for giving me new worlds to live in
D
C G
and waltzing me all the way home
Now that you're just a memory
waltzing me all the way home
I hope they treat you tenderly
in London, Paris and Rome
Am
G
You'll find a lover who looks like your mother
C
D
For heaven's sakes don't be alone
Am
G
and I'll find a lover who looks like your brother
C
but never another
D
C G
for waltzing me all the way home
waltzing me all the way home
INTRO: G:320033, D:x00232, G, D, G, D, G, D
G
Am:002210
Even though I met you only recently
C:032010 G
D
I find myself falling in love with you
I don't know quite how to put this decently
but what's the chance that you could love me too?
G
D G
(C): Who, who, who, who, who
C
G D
has made my dreams come true
G
D G
and turned my gray sky blue?
C
D G
Why it's you you you you you
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo
like amorous lovebirds do
Who made my world seem new?
'Tis, 'tis you you you you you.
You make me feel like I'm seventeen again
You make everything beautiful seem true
I can't wait to go to sleep and dream again
cause every dream I dream's a dream of dreamy little you (C)
G
D Am C
You make the world go round,
the sun go up and down,
the flowers bloom in May,
the children laugh and play
Shall we choose the day? (C)
ENDS WITH: C D G
G:320033
C:032010
I was the restless kind with a heart inclined to play games of
chance
until a dark-eyed girl from another world led me a dangerous dance
on the cliffs of Oahu
Oahu. Oahu. Oahu.
We became the slaves of the Pacific waves that come hard and slow
Sometimes a coral reef shelters a gentle beach, but there's an
undertow
on the shores of Oahu
Oahu. Oahu. Oahu.
It wasn't meant to be, she had no time for me cause she was writing
her novel
I'm just a haole now, but I'll go back somehow, and I'll stay there
forever
for the love of Oahu
Oahu. Oahu. Oahu. Oahu. Oahu. Oahu.
Oahu.
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