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