The Nun's Litany

Chords

Standard

B, E, F#, G#m, E, F#, B

B               E         F#
 I want to be a playboy's bunny.
G#m                      E       F#
   I'd do whatever they asked me to.
B                     E       F# 
 I'd meet people with lots of money,
G#m                            E  F#   B    E
   and they would love me like I loved you.

I want to be a topless waitress.
I want my mother to shed one tear.
I'd throw away this old sedate dress,
slip into something a tad more sheer.

E                B        F#
 I want to be an artist's model,
E                 B   F#
 an odalisque, au naturel.
B                    E        F#
 I should be good at spin-the-bottle
G#m                               E    F#  B    E
   while I've still got something left to sell.

I want to be a cobra dancer,
with Little Willy between my thighs.
I may not find a cure for cancer,
but I'll meet plenty of single guys.

I want to be a brothel worker.
I've always been treated like one.
If I could be a back-street lurker,
I'd make more money and have more fun.

I want to be a dominatrix,
which isn't like me, but I can dream
learn S, and M, and all those gay tricks,
and men will pay me to make them scream.

I want to be a porno starlet.
(For that I'll wait till Mama's dead.)
I'll see my name in lights of scarlet
and get to spend every day in bed.

I want to be a tattooed lady,
dedicated -- as I am -- to art.
Characters bold, complex, and shady
will write my memoirs across my heart.