Key: E minor
Intro 1
Em
C
Em
C
Em
C
Verse 1
Em
Mr.
Pugh, in the schoolhouse opposite,
takes up the morning tea to
Mrs.
D#dim
Ddim
Em
on the stairs.
A
Asus4
Here's your arsenic, dear,
G
Em
Am
Em
C
Fm
Db
Fm
I've spat in the vases,
I've put cheese in the mouth
Gdim
-holes.
Nice tea, dear.
Too much sugar.
G
C
You haven't tasted it yet, dear.
Too much milk, then.
Admit it,
Why, yes, dear.
Then it's time to get up.
Give me my glasses.
G
C
No, not my reading glasses.
I want to look out.
Em
C
Am
I want to see.
G
C
In the blind, drawn,
Fm
Em
dark dining room of
Schoolhouse, dusty and echo
C
Em
ing as a dining room in a vault,
Mr. and
Mrs.
Am
Ebdim
Ddim
Em
Am
Em
grainy cottage pie.
Mr.
Am
Pugh reads, as he forks the shroud meat in,
Bb
Fm
G#
from the lives of the great poisoners.
Bbm
Fm
Bb
brown paper cover on the book.
Fm
Em
Slyly, between slow mouthfuls,
G
Am
he sidespies up at
Mrs.
A
Asus4
He goes on reading.
Em
Fm
He underlines certain passages and smiles
Db
Bbm
Db
Fm
Ab
Gdim
Em
in secret.
C
Do not read a table,
Mrs.
She swallows a digestive tablet
as big as a horse's
Some persons were brought
up in pig -styles.
Bitterly she flicks dust from the broken court.
C
It settles on the pie in a thin, gnat -wing.
G
Em
C
D#dim
I know one who can.
G#dim
Ddim
Em
Alone in the hissing laborat
Pugh minces among bad -bats
and geroborums,
C
Em
tiptoes through spinnies of murdering herbs,
C
Fm
Bbsus4
Fm
agony dancing in his crucibles,
and mixes, especially for
Mrs.
Pugh, the venomous potage
Am
Em
She will scald and bite her finger
A
Em
Her toes grow big and black as balloons,
Fm
Bbsus4
Fm
Db
Gdim
Em
and steam comes screaming out of her neck.
Mrs.
Pugh smiles.
An icicle forms in the cold
air of the dining vault.
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