Key: Gb major
Verse 1
C#
D
Am
C
C#
D
C
I go
F#
C#
D
C#
to all the movies
Am
C
and I watch a lot of TV
D
C
I read all the newspapers,
B
F#
C#
I know what's happening about me
Yes, I've studied my Shakespeare
Am
B
C
and the poems of Ezra Pound.
D
C
I've read all the words of Tolstoy,
F#
C#
you could say I've been around.
D
C#
If you ask me about Picasso,
Am
C
I could tell you quite a lot.
D
C
No expert on the impressionist
F#
D
knows more than I've forgot.
I'm the perpetual audience
Bm
D
Am
G#m
B
for other people's dreams
C
D
C
I am a knowledgeable student
F#
D
of all their ways and means
Sometimes I get lonely
F#
Am
C
an d sometimes I get tired
D
C
TS Eliot's troubles,
F#
C#
D
well, they're not exactly mine
And it's very hard to find someone
Am
B
to listen to your blues
C
D
C
When they aren't told in a memorable way
F#
C#
or don't quite count as news
I'm sure the things that get me down,
B
C#
Just as bad as the things that happen
B
F#
C#
C#
to the people that I've read
F#
D
Am
B
C
D
C
F#
D
Am
B
it's marvellous to see
C
D
B
But with all the avenues open to them,
B
F#
C#
well, how about one for me?
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