Key: Ab major•
Verse 1
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Ab
While I lay me down to sleep,
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Ab
I worked through the worst day.
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Ab
Db
If I should die before I awake,
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Eb
Ab
Fm
Eb
would I still be a maid?
Fm
Eb
Ab
Would I still have to rise each day,
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Eb
Ab
while others lay in bed,
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Ab
and put an apron over my
and make the holy bread.
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Eb
Would I have to wash and iron
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Fm
the angels' dirty clothes?
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Eb
Would I have to clean
Fm
C
the heavens' floors?
Fm
Ab
And would I have to dump the garbage
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Ab
an d all the other slop?
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Ab
would such filthy duties stop?
Might I go to a movie
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Or will I have to polish stars
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and help to hang them out?
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Fm
Or will there be a chariot
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Db
Eb
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to carry me about?
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Db
I know I would be discouraged,
if I should be a maid in heaven
and still be underpaid.
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Ab
Now, one very important thing,
very important,
when I have a sweetheart,
when I find him most divine?
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with his arms in mine entwined?
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Abdim
of those beautiful white wings?
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Ab
Or would our love affair
be just one of those broth
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erly love things?
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Ab
I'm a little bit wor ried about that.
Yes I am just a little worried
Oh well, how stupid can
you get anyway here
and not the least bit tired
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Ab
Eb
of this great big beautiful world
worrying about what would happen
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ah it's stupid isn't it oh me folks
this very minute
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Cm
and remain a Very much, much alive,
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Bbm
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Ab
robust it's made.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsFm Ab Eb Db C...
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