Key: Bb major
Verse 1
E
F#
I find the moment I
G#m
let a woman
B
F#
she becomes jealous, exacting,
I find that the moment I let myself
become friends with a woman,
E
B
F#
So here am I, a confirmed old bachelor,
G#m
After all, Pickering, I'm an ordinary man
B
F#
who de sires nothing more than
E
D#
to live exactly as he likes
F#
C#
and do precisely what he wants.
C#
G#m
who likes to live his life free of strife,
F#
B
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#
E
F#
E
You want to talk of Keats or Norton,
Asus4
but she only wants to talk of love.
Oh!
E
B
F#
Let them buy their wedding bands
E
B
for those anxious little hands.
for a dentist to be drilling
B
F#
even -tempered and good -natured,
Who has the milk
of human kindness
C#
E
A patient man am I,
F#
C#
G#dim
The sort who never could, ever would,
C#
B
Let an insulting remark escape his lips.
F#
B
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,
E
F#
tie the knot around their necks.
B
E
I'd prefer a new edition
of the Spanish Inquisition
F#
E
F#
than to ever let a woman in my life.
B
F#
who prefers to spend the evenings
G#m
B
as an undiscovered tomb,
C#
E
a pensive man of mine,
C#
F#
B
of philosophic joys,
C#
G#m
who likes to meditate, contemplate,
F#
B
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
E
F#
nerian mother,
with a voice that shatters glass!
B
E
Oh, let a woman in your life!
G#
C#
F#
Let a wo man in your life!
C#
A#m
C#
F#
I shall never let a woman in my life.
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TunerE A D G B E
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