Key: Bb major
Verse 1
A
B
I find the moment I
C#m
let a woman
E
B
she becomes jealous, exacting,
I find that the moment I let myself
become friends with a woman,
A
E
B
So here am I, a confirmed old bachelor,
C#m
After all, Pickering, I'm an ordinary man
E
B
who de sires nothing more than
A
G#
to live exactly as he likes
B
F#
and do precisely what he wants.
F#
C#m
who likes to live his life free of strife,
B
E
They're just an ordinary man.
from the cellar to the dome,
B
fun
she has something else in mind,
And so rather than do either,
you do something else
B
A
B
A
You want to talk of Keats or Norton,
Dsus4
but she only wants to talk of love.
Oh!
A
E
B
Let them buy their wedding bands
A
E
for those anxious little hands.
for a dentist to be drilling
E
B
even -tempered and good -natured,
Who has the milk
of human kindness
F#
A
A patient man am I,
B
F#
C#dim
The sort who never could, ever would,
F#
E
Let an insulting remark escape his lips.
B
E
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,
A
B
tie the knot around their necks.
E
A
I'd prefer a new edition
of the Spanish Inquisition
B
A
B
than to ever let a woman in my life.
E
B
who prefers to spend the evenings
C#m
E
as an undiscovered tomb,
F#
A
a pensive man of mine,
F#
B
E
of philosophic joys,
F#
C#m
who likes to meditate, contemplate,
B
E
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
A
B
nerian mother,
with a voice that shatters glass!
E
A
Oh, let a woman in your life!
C#
F#
B
Let a wo man in your life!
F#
D#m
F#
B
I shall never let a woman in my life.
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