Key: Bb major
Verse 1
Eb
F
I find the moment I
Gm
let a woman
Bb
F
she becomes jealous, exacting,
I find that the moment I let myself
become friends with a woman,
Eb
Bb
F
So here am I, a confirmed old bachelor,
Gm
After all, Pickering, I'm an ordinary man
Bb
F
who de sires nothing more than
Eb
D
to live exactly as he likes
F
C
and do precisely what he wants.
C
Gm
who likes to live his life free of strife,
F
Bb
They're just an ordinary man.
from the cellar to the dome,
F
fun
she has something else in mind,
And so rather than do either,
you do something else
F
Eb
F
Eb
You want to talk of Keats or Norton,
Absus4
but she only wants to talk of love.
Oh!
Eb
Bb
F
Let them buy their wed ding bands
Eb
Bb
for those anxious little hands.
for a dentist to be drilling
Bb
F
even -tempered and good -natured,
Who has the milk
of human kindness
C
Eb
A patient man am I,
F
C
Gdim
The sort who never could, ever would,
C
Bb
Let an insulting remark escape his lips.
F
Bb
Just a very gentle man.
your reply will be concise,
and she'll listen very nicely,
then go out and do
You were a man of grace and polish,
Absus4
who never spoke above a hush.
Eb
F
tie the knot around their necks.
Bb
Eb
I'd prefer a new edition
of the Spanish Inquisition
F
Eb
F
than to ever let a woman in my life.
Bb
F
who prefers to spend the evenings
Gm
Bb
as an undiscovered tomb,
C
Eb
a pensive man of mine,
C
F
Bb
of philosophic joys,
C
Gm
who likes to meditate, contemplate,
F
Bb
He's just a quiet living man.
comes an army of her friends
Come to jabber and to chatter
and to tell her what the matter is
She'll have a booming,
boisterous family
She'll have a large Wag
Eb
F
nerian mother,
with a voice that shatters glass!
Bb
Eb
Oh, let a woman in your life!
G
C
F
Let a wo man in your life!
C
Am
C
F
I shall never let a woman in my life.
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