Key: Bb major
Verse 1
B
C#
I find the moment I
D#m
let a woman
F#
C#
she becomes jealous, exacting,
I find that the moment I let myself
become friends with a woman,
B
F#
C#
So here am I, a confirmed old bachelor,
D#m
After all, Pickering, I'm an ordinary man
F#
C#
who de sires nothing more than
B
A#
to live exactly as he likes
C#
G#
and do precisely what he wants.
G#
D#m
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#
B
C#
B
You want to talk of Keats or Norton,
Esus4
but she only wants to talk of love.
Oh!
B
F#
C#
Let them buy their wed ding bands
B
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#
B
A patient man am I,
C#
G#
D#dim
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,
B
C#
tie the knot around their necks.
F#
B
I'd prefer a new edition
of the Spanish Inquisition
C#
B
C#
than to ever let a woman in my life.
F#
C#
who prefers to spend the evenings
D#m
F#
as an undiscovered tomb,
G#
B
a pensive man of mine,
G#
C#
F#
of philosophic joys,
G#
D#m
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
B
C#
nerian mother,
with a voice that shatters glass!
F#
B
Oh, let a woman in your life!
D#
G#
C#
Let a wo man in your life!
G#
E#m
G#
C#
I shall never let a woman in my life.
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