An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer

The Rest Of Tom Lehrer

That Was The Year That Was

Thomas Andrew &quot;Tom&quot; Lehrer (born 9 April 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater.  Before attending college, Lehrer graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut. As an undergraduate student at Harvard University, he began to write comic songs to entertain his friends, including Fight Fiercely, Harvard (1945).

G         E7              A7      D7      
Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
G       E7           A7      D7      
Life is skittles and life is beer.
G           D7        G           D7          G 
I think the loveliest time of the year is the 
spring.
     E7   A7         D7    
I do, Dont you? Course you do.
           Am                          G                 
But theres one thing that makes spring complete for me,
    A7                   D         D7    
And makes every Sunday a treat for me.

        G                    
All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon,
                                   D7      
When were poisoning pigeons in the park.
      Am                 
Every Sunday youll see
My sweetheart and me,
      D7                        G      
As we poison the pigeons in the park.

     C                       G                        
When they see us coming, the birdies all try anhide,
         A7                        D7                     
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
    G                     
The suns shining bright,
Everything seems all right,
          A7        D7             G      
When were poisoning pigeons in the park.

     D7                  
Weve gained notoriety,
    G                    
And caused much anxiety
       D7                
In the Audubon Society
         G       
With our games.
     E7                 
They call it impiety,
And lack of propriety,
And quite a variety
              A       
Of unpleasant names.
        A7                D       
But its not against any religion
   A7                   D7        
To want to dispose of a pigeon.

D7    G                   
So if Sunday youre free,
Why dont you come with me,
                                   D7      
And well poison the pigeons in the park.

    Am              
And maybe well do
In a squirrel or two,
           D7                       G      
While were poisoning pigeons in the park.

     C                    G                        
Well murder them all amid laughter and merriment,
   A7                       D7                    
Ex cept for the few we take home to experiment.
   G                       
My pulse will be quikenin
With each drop of strychnine
   A7        D7        
We feed to a pigeon.
   A7           D7         
It just takes a smidgen!
   A7       D7            G      D7    G 
To poison a pigeon in the park.

Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

C                            G7
I always will remember twas a year ago November
       C                A7        D                  G
I went out to hunt some deer on a morning bright and clear
  C                 C7          F               Fm
I went and shot the maximum the game laws would allow
         C              G7             C
Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow

 

      C                           G7
I was in no mood to trifle I took down my trusty rifle
C                    A7          D                G
Went out to stalk my prey what a haul I made that day
  C               C7           F                   Fm
I tied them to my fender and I drove them home somehow
         C              G7             C
Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow


    Em                    B7
The law was very firm it, took away my permit
    Em              Em        B7
The worst punishment I ever endured
          Em                      B7
It turned out there was a reason, cows were out of season
    Em                Em*       B7     G
And one of the hunters wasn't insured


       C                        G7
People ask me how I do it and I say there's nothing to it
         C                   A7            D                   G
You just stand there looking cute and when something moves you shoot
            C           C7          F                 Fm       
And there's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now
         C              G7             C         Fm       C
Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a pure-bred guernsey cow

The Hunting Song

Fm
When you attend a funeral,
      C7
It is sad to think that sooner or'l
      Fm                  Db7             C7   Db7  C7
Later those you love will do the same for you.
        Fm
And you may have thought it tragic,
       C7
Not to mention other adjec-
          Fm               G7                C7
Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do.
(But don't you worry.)

        Fm    
No more ashes, no more sackcloth,
       Gb
And an arm band made of black cloth
     C7                         F
Will some day nevermore adorn a sleeve.
                              F7
For if the bomb that drops on you
          Bb                    G7
Gets your friends and neighbors too,
            C7                    F
There'll be nobody left behind to grieve.

C7  Gm/D C  F                    F+ Bb
And  we  will  all go together when we go.
                  Gm              C7
What a comforting fact that is to know.
   F         F7
Universal bereavement,
   F+  Bb        Gm
An inspiring achievement,
     B       C7                      F    Db7
Yes, we will all go together when we go.

        Gb                  Gb+ Cb
We will all go together when we go.
                     Abm          Db7
All suffused with an incandescent glow.
            Gb         Gb7
No one will have the endurance
   Gb+ Cb           Abm
To collect on his insurance,
        C  Db7                             Gb  D7
Lloyd's of London will be loaded when they go.

           G                        F
Oh we will all fry together when we fry.
                                      E   Eb  E
We'll be French fried potatoes by and by.
           E
There will be no more misery
         F
When the world is our rotisserie,
             B7                       E
Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.


    Gm C  F                     F+ Bb
And  we  will all bake together when we bake.
                   Gm             C7
There'll be nobody present at the wake.
         F           F7
With complete participation
   F+   Bb          Gm
In that grand incineration,
    B   C7                               F     Db7
Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak.

           Gb                    Gb+ Cb 
Oh we will all char together when we char.
                    Abm            Db7
And let there be no moaning of the bar.
          Gb       Gb7
Just sing out a Te Deum
     Gb+ Cb          Abm
When you see that I.C.B.M.,
    C   Db7                       Gb    D7
And the party will be come-as-you-are.

            G                         F
Oh, we will all burn together when we burn.
                                           E   Eb  E
There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn.
          E
When it's time for the fallout
          F
And Saint Peter calls us all out,
           B7                       E      E7
We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn.


    Gm C  fF                    F+ Bb
And we   will  all go together when we go.
                     G        C7
Every Hottentot and every Eskimo.
         F            F7
When the air becomes uranious,
        Bb          Gm   
We will all go simultaneous.
     B  C7
Yes, we all will go together
        D7
When we all go together,
       Gm             C7            F
Yes we all will go together when we go.

We Will All Go Together When We Go

Em                        Am
I ache for the touch of your lips, dear
     D7                              G
But much more for the touch of your  whips, dear
B7                             Em
You can raise welts like nobody else
      B7                     Em
As we dance to the masochism tango

    Em                          Am
Let our love be a flame, not an ember
         D7                     G
Say it's me that you want to dismember
B7                             Em
Blacken my eye, set fire to my tie
      B7                     Em
As we dance to the masochism tango
           Am          D7         G
At your command before you here I stand
   Em             Am
My heart is in my hand - yecch
      Ebdim           Em  E7
It's here that I must be
           Am           D7                G
My heart entreats, just hear those savage beats
     Em             Am         D7              G   B7
And go put on your cleats and come and trample me
     Em                          Am
Your heart is hard as stone or mahogany
       D7                        G
That's why I'm in such exquisite agony
   B7                                  Em
My soul is on fire, it's aflame with desire
         B7                     Em
Which is why I perspire when we tango
              C    C7
You caught my nose
                F
In your left castanet, love
               B7
I can feel the pain yet, love
                  Em
Ev'ry time I hear drums

               C     C7
And I envy the rose
                      F
That you held in your teeth, love
                     B7
With the thorns underneath, love
                   B7
Sticking into your gums

C7 B7 C7 B7 C7 B7 C7 B7
     Em                       Am
Your eyes cast a spell that bewitches
    D7                        G
The last time I needed twenty stitches
   B7                                      Em
To sew up the gash that you made with your lash 
      B7                      Em
As we danced to the masochism tango
           Am        D7                  G
Bash in my brain and make me scream with pain
     Em           Am          Ebdim         Em    E7
Then kick me once again and say we'll never part
  Am         D7                      G
I know too well I'm underneath your spell
    Em              Am              D7               G     B7
So, Darling, if you smell something burning, it's my heart

Hic! Excuse me
     Em                        Am
Take your cigarette from its holder
    D7                       G
And burn your initials in my shoulder
B7                                      Em
Fracture my spine and swear that you're mine
      B7                     Em
As we dance to the masochism tango

B7  Em

The Masochism Tango

#If I left out any chords, please leave a comment, thanks :)


#Intro- D D A7 A7 D D A7 A7 

           D
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
       A7
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
      D
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
     A                   E7        A
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
   A7                   Dm
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
        C7                      F
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
     Am                        Dm
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
      Bb7                     A7
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
           D
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
      A7
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
      D              A7          D          A7
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
       D                 G         A7           D
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.


#I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz next period. 

           D 
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
        A7
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
        D
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
     A                        E7         A
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
     Am                        Dm
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
   C7                      F
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
       Am                    Dm
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
      Bb7                      A7
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

          D                
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
     A7
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
     D               A7            D                A7
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
       D                 G               A7                D 
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.

       D                              A7
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
           D             G               D      A7      D
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.

#End- D A7 A7 D G A7 D

The Elements Song

---------2-3---------------------------------
----3------------5-----2------1---------0----
---------------------------------4---2-----0-
-0-----2------4-----0------------------------

The Element Song

G7
First, you get down on your knees,
C6
Fiddle With your Roseries
G7
Bow your head with great respect and
C       C#dim    Dm          G9
Genuflect, Genuflect, Genuflect!

G7
Do whatever steps you want if
C6                               A7
you have cleared them with the pontiff
F         F#dim       C     A7
Everybody say his own Kyrie Eleison,
D7        G7      C
Doin' the Vatican Rag.

G7
Get in line in that processional,
C                            C#dim
Step into that small confessional,
G7
There the guy who's got religion'll
C                            G7
tell you if your sin's original.
F
If it is, try playin' it safer,
Fm
Drink the wine and chew the wafer.
F#dim
Two, Four, Six, Eight.
G7
Time to transubstantiate.

G7
So get down on your knees,
C6
Fiddle with your Roseries
G7
Bow your head with great respect and,
C     C#dim        Dm         G9
Genuflect, Genuflect, Genuflect.
G7
Make a cross on your ab-domen,
C9
when in Rome, do like a Roman.
F          C                A7
Ave Maria, Gee it's good to see ya!
D7          G7       D7         G7
Gettin' Ecstatic-an, sorta dramatic-an
D7       G7      C
Doin' the Vatican Rag!

Vatican Rag

C   
Jaja, okay okay
                  F
Ya sé qué pasa aquí
   A#                            C
Encuentras la grandeza frente a ti
             C
Y no sabes bien qué sentir
       F            A#                      C
Es adorable, que jamás los humanitos cambiarán
           C       F
Despierta ya, oye bien, 
           A#                   C
este como ves es Maui, de verdad
             C                F
Sé que como yo no encuentras dos
        A#          C
Lo que miras es un semi Dios

[Coro 1]
Am         F           C
  Yo solo sé decir de nada
        E7               Am
Por el mar, el cielo, el sol
                F            C
No hay de que agradecer, de nada
     E7                    C
Soy sólo un ordinario semi yo

[Estrofa 2]
C                                F  
Hey, ¿qué fortachón el cielo elevó?
                        A#
Cuando eras de esta altura, éste
C                  C
  Si la noche enfrió, 
                  F
¿quién fue quien fuego te llevó?
       A#          
¿Qué, alguien me nombró? 
C              C       F
  Oh, yo sólo lazo el sol
          A#                    C
De nada, para estirar tu diversión
          C       F
Brisa yo hago soplar, de nada, 
   A#           C
y así tus velas elevar

[Coro 2]
Am        F            C
  Yo sólo sé decir de nada, 
        E7                  Am
por las islas que traje del mar
              F                  C
No ruegues jamás, nunca más, de nada
         E7                     Am
¡Ha! Genial es mi manera de servir, 
    F
de nada, 
    C
de nada

[Parte Rap]
C
De nada dudes ya
Hey, honestamente te explicaré 
de natural modo cada fenómeno
El mar, el sol, el gas, 
oh, ese es Maui hablando de más
Anguilas que, yo las enterré, 
de la palmera los cocos creé
Un consejo, una lección te doy
No me molestes si en mi descanso estoy
Am
  El tapiz que en mi piel se ve, 
F
  es el mapa de lo que gané
C
  Por donde fui provoqué mil sucesos
E7
  Ve al pequeñín mini Maui nomás zapateando,
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ¡Hey!

[Coro 3]
Am          F              C
  Yo sólo puedo decir, de nada (de nada)
           E7              Am
Por el mundo especial que doy
                 F           C
No hay de que agradecer, de nada (de nada)
    E7                     Am
De nada hablaré, que ya me voy
          F            C
Te toca a ti decir de nada (de nada)
       E7             Am
Pues quiero esa barca ya
             F          C
Muy lejos navegaré, de nada (de nada)
       E7               Am
Pues Maui nada sabe de nadar
              F                 C  F C
(De nada) De nada (De nada) de nada
         C
Y gracias

De Nada

G      Em
I found a love for me
               C                         D
Darling just dive right in, and follow my lead
                G                 Em
Well I found a girl beautiful and sweet
          C                                  D
I never knew you were the someone waiting for me

                                 G
Cause we were just kids when we fell in love
              Em                     C               G  D
Not knowing what it was, I will not give you up this ti-ime
                   G                         Em
But darling just kiss me slow, your heart is all I own
             C                  D
And in your eyes you’re holding mine

       Em   C            G          D              Em
Baby, I’m dancing in the dark, with you between my arms
C                G     D                Em
Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
          C                G                 D              Em
When you said you looked a mess, I whispered underneath my breath
         C                G        D             
But you heard it, darling you look perfect tonight

               G                    Em
Well I found a woman, stronger than anyone I know
                C                                        D
She shares my dreams, I hope that someday I’ll share her home
           G             Em
I found a love, to carry more than just my secrets
         C                              D
To carry love, to carry children of our own

                              G                     Em 
We are still kids, but we’re so in love, fighting against all odds
                  C               G  D
I know that we’ll be alright this ti-ime
               G                            Em 
Darling just hold my hand, be my girl, I’ll be your man
          C              D
I see my future in your eyes



       Em   C            G          D              Em
Baby, I’m dancing in the dark, with you between my arms
C                G     D                Em
Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
          C                G                 D               Em
When you said you looked a mess, I whispered underneath my breath
         C                G        D             
But you heard it, darling you look perfect tonight

G Em C D 


       Em     C            G          D              Em
Baby, I’m dancing in the dark, with you between my arms
C                G     D                Em
Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
          C                G                 D               Em
When you said you looked a mess, I whispered underneath my breath
         C                G        D             
But you heard it, darling you look perfect tonight


Perfect

BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP


C         G
Baa, baa, black sheep,
F            C
Have you any wool?

F        C
Yes sir, yes sir,
G          C
Three bags full.

C           G
One for the master,
F           C
One for the dame,

F               C
And one for the little boy
G                  C
Who lives down the lane.

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Intro (2X):
Am	G	F	C

Verse 1:
                C	               Am		
There's so much craziness surrounding me
                F	 	             G		            
There's so much going on it gets hard to breathe
     Am     F		                          C
When all my faith has gone you bring it back to me
Am	         G	       F   C
You make it real for me

             C	             Am		
When I'm not sure of my priorities
               F	 	             G		
When I've lost sight of where I meant to be
     Am   F		            C
Like holy water washing over me 
Am	         G	       F   C
You make it real for me

Chorus:
    G	    Am	   F	             C
And IIIIIIIII'm running to you baby
G    Am	              F	           C
  Youuuuuuuuu are the only one who saved me
       G     Am	         F	               C
That's    whyyyyyyy I've been missing you lately
      Am	         G	       F   C
Cause you make it real for me 

Verse 2:
          C	                   Am		
When my head is strong but my heart is weak
              F	 	          G		
I'm full of arrogance and uncertainty
     Am      F				                          C
When I can't find the words you teach my heart to speak
Am	         G	       F   C
You make it real for me yeah

Chorus:
    G	    Am	   F	             C
And IIIIIIIII'm running to you baby
G    Am	              F	           C
  Youuuuuuuuu are the only one who saved me
       G     Am	         F	               C
That's    whyyyyyyy I've been missing you lately
      Am	         G	       F   C
Cause you make it real for me 

Bridge:
G                           F                 C
    Everybody’s talking in words I don't understand
G                                    F              C
    You got to be the only one who knows just who I am
Em                                    F	
    You’re shining in the distance I hope I can make it through
           D	                              G                                    
Cause the only place that I want to be is right back home with you 


Verse 3:
                 C	             Am		
I guess there's so much more I have to learn
               F	 	                       G		
But if you're here with me, I know which way to turn
        Am         F		                   C
You always give me somewhere, somewhere I can run
Am	            G	       F   C
   You make it real for me 

Chorus:
    G	    Am	   F	             C
And IIIIIIIII'm running to you baby
G    Am	              F	           C
  Youuuuuuuuu are the only one who saved me
       G     Am	         F	               C
That's    whyyyyyyy I've been missing you lately
      Am	         G	       F   C
Cause you make it real for me 
Am	         G	       F   C
You make it real for me

You Make It Real

G         Em		  
1) Almost heaven,   West Virginia,
2) All my mem'ries, gather round her, 

   D			 C                G
1) Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah       River.
2) miner's lady,         stranger to blue water.

                      Em  
1) Life is old there, older than the trees, 
2) Dark and dusty,    painted on the sky, 

   D
1) younger than the mountains
2) misty taste of moonshine

   C			G
1) growin' like a breeze.
2) teardrop in my eye.

              G              D            Em        C
       Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong.
	      G               D              C            G
     West Virginia, Mountain momma, take me home Country roads


           Em       D            G 
 	I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me,
            C        G              D 
        the radio reminds her of my home far away
            Em               D            C
        and driving down the road I get a feeling 
 	       G                     D          D7    G
        that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday.

Country Roads

Am      C              F              C
I had a dream, we were sipping whisky neat
        F              C                 G
Highest floor, the Bowery, and nowhere’s high enough
    Am              C                F             C
Somewhere along the lines, we stopped seeing eye to eye
         F               C           G
You were staying out all night and I had enough


      F           Am             F                    C       
No, I don't wanna know where you been or where you're goin’
      F               Am                 G
But I know I won't be home and you'll be on your own


            F                    C                G
Who's gonna walk you through the dark side of the morning?
            F                 C                 G
Who's gonna rock you when the sun won't let you sleep?
             F                C               G         E7   Am
Who's waking up to drive you home when you're drunk and all alone?
             F                    C                G
Who's gonna walk you through the dark side of the morning, it ain’t me


Am        C              G         F   
Ow-ow, ah-ah the Bowery, ow-ow, ah-ah whiskey neat
Am          C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

F         C              Am        G
Ow-ow, ah-ah the Bowery, ow-ow, ah-ah whiskey neat
F           C       G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

Am     C           G      F   
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
Am          C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

F      C           Am     G
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
F           C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)


Am  C  Am       C              F           C
       I had a dream, we were back to seventeen
       F                   C            G
Summer nights and the Libertines, never growing up
Am             C          F                 C
I'll take with me the polaroids and the memories
        F              C                G
But you know I'm gonna leave behind the worst of us


             F                    C                G
Who's gonna walk you through the dark side of the morning?
             F                 C                 G
Who's gonna rock you when the sun won't let you sleep?
             F                C               G         E7   Am
Who's waking up to drive you home when you're drunk and all alone?
             F                    C                G               
Who's gonna walk you through the dark side of the morning

         F      C     G
It ain’t me, no-o, no-o
         F      C     G
It ain’t me, no-o, no-o
         F      C     G  E7  Am
It ain’t me, no-o, no-o
             F                    C                G                
Who's gonna walk you through the dark side of the morning, it ain’t me


Am     C           G      F   
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
Am          C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

F      C           Am     G
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
F           C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

Am     C           G      F   
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
Am          C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

F      C           Am     G
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
F           C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

Am     C           G      F   
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
Am          C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

F            C           Am           G
No no, no no no, Bowery, no no, no no no, whiskey neat
F           C       G                     Am
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I, it ain’t me

It Ain't Me

Intro/Verse
A|--4--1--3--6---------------------------------------------------|
E|--------1--4---------------------------------------------------|
C|--8--5---------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus
A|--1--4--4--4--6------------------------------------------------|
E|--------2-----4------------------------------------------------|
C|--5--8-----8---------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|

Solo
A|--8-8-8-8-8-9-6-6-8-9-I----------8-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------9-9-9-9---4-4-4-------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

A|--8-8-8-8-8-9-6-6-8-9-I------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------9-9-9-9-------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

School Friends

S                     S        
A|-------------------------------------| 
E|--6------6-6---3-------------------1-| 
C|-------------5---5-------------------| 
G|-------------------------------------| 
                                                              
A|----------------------------------------------------------| 
E|--1--1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1------------------------------| 
C|-----4-4-4-4-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2------------------------------| 
G|----------------------------------------------------------| 

A|-----5--8--10--8--5--|--8-12--------12--|----5-8-10-8-5-------| 
E|--6------------------|------------------|--6------------------| 
C|---------------------|------------------|---------------------| 
G|---------------------|-------5--7-5-----|---------------------| 
     S      S      S      S            
A|----------------7------7-8----8---| 
E|--5-6----5-6------1----5-6----6---| 
C|--4-5------2------2-----------2---| 
G|---------6------6-----------------|

King Creole

Verse 1:
G                                    Em        G        Em
There was a girl who lived in London town.
G                                 Em                   G      Em
The scenes and sounds, they would only bring her down
C                                   D
She had polkadots and rubies in her dreams,
C                   D
French fantasies on cinema screens...
        C             G/B    Am     G
And she knew from the finish to the start
C      G/B      Am   G
It was bound to fall apart
C         G/B     Am   Em
Thanks to Cupid's lazy dart.
Em                                D
Wouldn't it be sweet if she could die from a broken heart?

G     Em      G      Em

Verse 2: (the same chords)
There was a boy who lived inside his head.
He couldn't face the world, so he turned his back instead.
He couldn't see in front of his eyes;
His fantasies of outlaws had him hypnotised...

And he knew from the finish to the start
It was bound to fall apart
Thanks to Cupid's lazy dart.                        F
Wouldn't it be sweet if he could die from a broken heart?

   C              G           F
Behold his golden wings
       C              G         F
And behold his bronze bow.
                 C             G         F
Can you hear his silver arrows sing?
       C               G     
As his gaylied favours glow.

(then go back to the normal verse bit)

There was a boy and girl who fell in love:
They both were in love with the stars and sky above,
Cinderella, cigarettes and scenes from the past
Were chasing them too fast for this love to ever last...

And they knew from the finish to the start
It was bound to fall apart
Thanks to Cupid's lazy dart.                         F
Wouldn't it be sweet if they could die from a broken heart? 

C   G    F    C    G

Repeat F  C  G until the end. End on G.

Arrows Of Eros

Am
There's a sadness all around us
          F                         C
There are words we're too afraid to say
                                        Am
The things that I thought would last forever
    F              G
Are changing every day

          Am
There's a hunger can't be satisfied
        F                       C
And the streets are filled with rage
C                       Am
It's time to dig deep inside ourselves
F                       G
And face the life we've made

Am
It's gonna take two of us
C                           Am
Ijust can't do it all on my own
F				  C
I see the day gettin' brighter
G                    F
Hold me a little bit tighter

C                      Am      F
Out of the darkness in hand in hand
     Am               F        G
Baby together we will make our stand
C                             Am      F
Reach out and touch me we can win somehow
       Am              F                G
I know there's nothing that can stop us now
F              Am                 G   C
Oh, baby, come with me out of the darkness

...

Poisoning Pigeons In The Park	No rating	beginner	Chords	Full	Other versions
The Element Song	No rating	beginner	Tab	Intro
The Elements Song	No rating	beginner	Chords	Full
The Hunting Song	No rating	beginner	Chords	Full
The Masochism Tango	No rating	beginner	Chords	Full
Vatican Rag	No rating	beginner	Chords	Full
We Will All Go Together When We Go	No rating	intermediate	Tab	Full

Tom Lehrer songs

Popular tabs

Related artists

All songs (7)

No pending tabs

Discography

Biography