Like Animals chords by Leslie Bricusse
Verse 1
G
I do not understand the human race.
C
G
It has so little love
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A
for creatures with a different face.
D
G
Treating animals like people
D
Em
A
is no madness or disgrace.
D
Em
I do not understand the human race.
Bm
D
I wonder,
G
why do we treat animals like animals?
Ab
Animals treat us so very well.
D
The devoted way they serve us,
G
and protect us when we're nervous.
Eb
Oh, they really don't
D
deserve us.
All we give them is hell.
G
Tell me, how else man repays them?
C
Do we ever think to praise them?
G
No, we don't, and this dismays them,
you can tell.
C
We're riddled with ingratitude.
G
Eb
We give no love or latitude.
Em
G
In every way our attitude
D
G
is, well, like animals.
D
No, no, that's not what I mean.
G
I mean, why do we treat animals
D
like animals?
G
Ab
How can people be so inhumane?
Eb
D
Cows and chickens work to feed us.
G
Dogs and horses show they need us.
Em
And though cats don't always heed us,
D
their affection is plain.
G
What do we do?
We neglect them.
C
We do nothing to protect them.
D
We reject them.
G
Don't expect them to complain.
C
We ignore them, or we
C#dim
beat them.
G
When we're hungry, then
Eb
we eat them.
Em
It's appalling how we treat them.
Ebdim
It's insane.
D
G
D
Ebdim
Like animals!
Eb
We humiliate and murder and
confine them.
We create their wretched status.
Then we use it to malign them.
Eb
Ab
I mean, why should we say,
Eb
G
treat him like a dog?
Eb
Why should we say, working like a horse?
Eb
Ab
Why should we say, eating like a hog?
C#
Ab
B
When what we mean is, eating like a man,
don't we?
Eb
Bbm
Of course.
Eb
A man of ill repute
is called a weasel or a rat.
Ab
A woman you dislike be
F
Eb
comes a fixin' or a cat.
Ab
Db
C
A fam ily that is blessed
F
with healthy reproductive
Eb
habits
Occasion's a remark,
Cm
well you know them,
Eb
they breed like rabbits.
He's as stubborn as a mule,
he's as stupid as an ox,
he's as slimy as a snake,
he's as crafty as a fox.
Remarks like that really
G
get my goat.
Ab
Eb
Ab
Why don't we say, noble as a frog?
Eb
Or why can't we say,
Cm
Eb
wealthy as a hare?
Ab
Db
True, we say, devoted as a dog,
C
but what we should say is,
Eb
Ebdim
chic as a gir affe.
Eb
Pretty as a pig, eh?
That'll be the big day, won't it?
Ebsus4
But when?
Eb
But when?
Em
But when?
D
A
When will we stop
Eb
treating them like animals?
A
Bb
Is the human race entirely mad?
Em
A
Women see a baby goatskin,
or a namskin, or a stoatskin,
B
And to them it's just a coat -skin,
Em
C
oh, it's terribly sad.
E
A
When you dress in suede or leather,
D
or some fancy fur or feather,
Ebdim
Do you stop and wonder
A
G
whether, for a fact,
A
D
Ebdim
You have killed some beast or other?
A
F#m
That you're wearing someone's
A
brother?
Ebdim
Or perhaps it's
G
someone's mother
Bm
in which you're clasped?
A
Like animals!
F
A
Like animals!
D
A
Ebdim
Ebm
Like an imals.
G#
G#m
Well, it's true.
Bm
We do not live in a zoo.
Gb
But man is an animal, too. So why can't you,
F#
like me, like animals?
Animals.
Like Animals
Leslie Bricusse
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