Dr. Benway Is Operating In An Auditorium Filled With Students chords by
William S. Burroughs

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Key: Db major

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Dr. Benway is operating
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in an auditorium filled with students.
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Now, boys,
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you won't see this operation
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performed very often.
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There's a reason for that.
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You see, it has absolutely
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no medical value.
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No one knows what the purpose
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of it originally was
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or 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
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with his skill and knowledge
extricates himself in danger.
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He has himself invoked.
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So in this operation the surgeon
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deliberately endangers his patient
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and then, with incred
ible 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. Tetrazzini
perform?
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I say perform advisedly
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because his operations were
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performances.
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He would start by throwing a scapel
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across the room into the patient,
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and then make 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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Tu mors 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
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like a knife -fighter.
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The young man leaps down in
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to the operating theatre,
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and whipping out a scaffold
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advances on the patient,
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and es pontaneo,
stop him before he guts my patient.
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Espontaneo is a bull
fighting term
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for a member of the audi
ence
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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
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before he's dragged 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
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of the confusion
to pry a large gold filling
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from the patient's mouth.

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