Dr. Benway Is Operating In An Auditorium (1959) chords by
William S. Burroughs

N/A

Key: Db major

Verse 1
Dr.
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Benway is operating in an auditorium
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filled with students.
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Now, boys, you won't
see this operation performed
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very often.
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There's a reason for that.
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You see, it has
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absolutely no medical value.
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No one knows what the purpose
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of it originally was or
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if it had a purpose at all.
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Personally, I think it was a pure
artistic creation
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from the beginning.
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Just as a bullfighter with his skill
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and knowledge extricates
himself in danger.
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He has himself invoked.
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So in this operation the surgeon
deliberately
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endangers his patient and then, with incredible speed and celerity,
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rescues him from death
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at the last possible split second.
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Did you ever see
Dr.
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Tetrazzini perform? I say perform
advisedly because his oper
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ations were performances.
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He would start by
throwing a scapel across
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the room into the patient and then make
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his entrance like a ballet dancer.
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His speed was
incredible.
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I  don't give them time to die,
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he would say.
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Tumors put him in a frenzy of rage.
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Fucking
undisciplined cells, he would snarl,
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advancing on the tumor like a knife fighter.
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The young man leaps down into the operating
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theater and whipping out a scapel advances
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on the patient, and es pontaneo,
stop him before he guts my patient.
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Espontaneo is a bullfighting term for a member of the
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audience who leaps down into the ring,
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pulls out a concealed cape,
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and attempts a few passes with the bull before he's dragged
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out of the ring.
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The orderly scuffle with the espontaneo
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is fi  nally ejected from the hall.
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The anesthetist takes advantage of the confusion
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to pry a large gold filling from the patient's mouth.

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