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Intro 1
(A major) (E major) (E minor) (B major) (C major) (G major)
(F major) (E major) (A minor)
Verse 1
I'm going
(F major) to (D minor) (E major) (C sharp major) play you I'm (C major)
When (F major) we (D major) were small,
our mother (C major) used to make us (F major) play the Diabel (D minor) li Variation (G major) s,
Op. 33. (C major) we (F major) gave our (D major) all and
on (G major) our first re (E major) cital
I play the vital Chopin
an (A major) d I (D major) played the Jardin sous
(A major) la pluie
by Debussy
(A minor) now (G major) you all know who Debussy
is
(D major) don't you miss Carter of
(G major) course I do well
maybe some people here don't know who
he was
Claude Jacques -Pierre
Debussy was born (C major) in Saint -Germain (G major) -en -Laye,
(C major) outside of (G major) Paris, in the year 1862.
He died in Paris in (C major) the year 1918.
(G major)
His major works
include the (C major) wonderful cantata
(A minor) Le Martyr (C major) de Saint -Sebastien,
translated into English (G major) as The Martyrdom (C major) of Saint -Sebastien.
(A minor) The (D major) lovely opera Pelléas et Mélis (A minor) ande,
(C major) translated into (G major) English as Pelléas
(C major) and Mélisande.
Thank you, thank you.
And countless beautiful (A major) piano pieces,
the most (C sharp major) fam ous of which is (F sharpdim) (F major) (B flat minor)
(G sharp major) (E flat minor) ["Claire de (G sharp major) Lun (D major) (F major) (F sharp major) e"] (B flat minor)
(D major) (G sharp major) Translated as (A minor) Clara the (C major) Loon. (G major)
(B major) But now we're grown up.
We (E minor) must own (A minor) up.
We love (D major) the gutter music,
(A minor) not the music of the (E minor) spheres.
Though (F major) many folk (D minor) prefer
symphon (F major) ic (C minor) dances,
We'd (E flatdim) (D major) rather fill our (D minor) ears
(F major) with (A minor) Con (D major) nie Fran (G major) cis.
Give us (D minor) some (D major) (G minor) cheap, (C major) decadent (A minor) drivel,
The (D major) kind (E major) that sloshes (D minor) all (D major) around all day,
In your (G major) supermarket,
or (E minor) in your (A minor) of fice elevator,
(D major) All over (A minor) the (G major) USA.
We love to hear a (D major) talk of (G minor) rock and roller (C major) .
I like a little (F major) bit of dinner music
(C major) in the after (F major) noon
We (E major) (A minor) just love a raspy scratchy old Victro (D major) la
And we just ad (C major) ore a little bit more
that moon in June is boo.
Give us some swill, vulgar but (A minor) simple.
(F major) A mediocre tun (D minor) e is such a (D major) tease
(E major) Now (D major) Jo (A major) han Strauss
(A minor) preferred the (D major) flavor of musk,
but we ain't as (G major) easy to please.
(D major) We take after mother,
we like to (C major) buy classical (A minor) re (A major) cord
(A minor) don't (A major) you (D major) just so we can
smash (D minor) them on (D major) the wall
it's such a (G major) thrilling feeling
to hurl (D minor) Caruso (C major) at the (A minor) ceiling
an (D major) d to desec (G major) rate Barstaphal
some (D major) times (G major) we have (G minor) a
private (D major) conflag (C major) ration
it's just a (F major) tiny little personal (C major) caprice
(D minor) we (E major) (A minor) start a fire
with Wagner's (D major) immolation
and all the while we (D minor) smile
and (B major) sing along with
(D minor) I (G major) (C major) hear the sound of sirens,
(E flatdim) their (B major) fire engine (E flatdim) sirens.
We (D major) love the (C major) tone, smoky but (A minor) dul cet.
That (C major) (D minor) is sues from the
(B flat major) throat of (D minor) Leslie (E major) Gore.
Now (A minor) you could (A major) keep your jewel song.
(D major) Give us a cool song
who (D minor) could ask for (G major) anything (G minor) more.
(G major) One (D major) more time.
(Ddim) Give (D minor) us a (C major) cheap, decadent (A minor) drivel.
To (D major) keep us (E major) feeling rotten (D minor) and de (D major) based.
Now you take your (G major) Aaron Copland,
you're Winnie (C major) -Ninnie
-Binnie -Schu (A minor) mann
Then (D major) people don't got no taste
and (D minor) now we (D major) turn (D minor) to Mr.
Leonard (C major) Bernstein
He's the contrapunt
(F major) al homophon (C major) ic tease.
(G major) Listen, (E major) Lenny, baby,
keep (A minor) him fused uptown at
Lincoln Center (D major)
Lock the (G major) door, prevent the spread
of musical (D minor) disease.
Give us some (C major) slob, tacky (A minor) but tempting
Such joy (F major) the kind of music
(D minor) al ways (A minor) bring (E major) s
And (D minor) you can keep (A minor) your fid (A major) dlers
and your (D major) classical nuts
(D minor) And (D major) be like a (G major) singer with (C major) guts
(G major) Like Sonny Bono (A major) (D minor) (A minor)
Some (D minor) body groovy (C major) who swings
Like Anaconda (A major)
An (D major) d you can (D minor) send Joan Sutherland
back (D major) to her (E flatdim) motherland
Send (D minor) Luciano back (D major) (E flatdim) to Milano
They (C major) just (E major) do not be (A minor) long
Give (A major) (D minor) us the cheap jacket and dribble
to make us like a swivel.
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Outro 1
Give us the second -rate socks, oh!
(C major)
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