Roshi Bobo chords by Jay Rico

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
Hey guys  (E minor) 
Here's a wonderful
Zen story
It's about a monk called
Roshi- Fubo
Which in
English means
Master of
Fuck
Other titles shouldn't throw anyone, and
May not mean exactly what
people think
But there's one thing you can say about,
the
The whole story concerns a young man,
13 years of age, whose parents sent him to a
Zen monastery
To become a monk and of course
to receive enlightenment
He was a fairly bright young man, good looking, obedient,
and as far as anyone could see, good material
Em 
After a  (E minor) few years, nothing seemed to happen,
he didn't seem to be getting anywhere
5 years passed, nothing changed,
and even his masters began to despair of him
Em 
 (E minor) Finally after 13 years, he decided that he didn't have any,
he didn't have what it takes
F# 
Em 
 (F sharp major) And he would go out and enjoy the, uh,  (E minor) fun, you know,
Em 
the amount of the world that he couldn't be among  (E minor) 
Em 
 (E minor) So he slipped out one night with his bags of baggage,
D 
F# 
Em 
 (D major)  (F sharp major) and, uh,  (E minor) he  wandered into the red light district
There he encountered a girl who
appeared like a geisha
Em 
I heard  (E minor) you went to bed
F# 
with  (F sharp major) her
Immediately
Immediately
Immediately
B 
Em 
Immediately  (B major)  (E minor) 
B 
 (B major) 
Em 
Well,  (E minor) it  was his first experience with a wolf,
and, uh, instead of being horrible, though
And embarrassed and shy and so on,
B 
he seemed to be very adept at the senses be (B major) hind the
Em 
B 
Em 
He  (E minor) was aware  (B major) of her body, the touch,  (E minor) the smell, everything, even when the clothes dropped to the floor,
B 
G#m 
B 
Em 
B 
Em 
it cre (B major) ated a  (G sharp minor) sen   sation in him,  (B major)  (E minor)  (B major) that he had allowed himself to  (E minor) go to the very end of doubt and despair
B 
And he got it, you  (B major) see,
this could never have happened
Em 
But he  (E minor) went to the very end of the tunnel,
and saw the light
B 
 (B major) And this is, course,
Em 
something that does not happen to people in  (E minor) psychotic houses
B 
Em 
They make  (B major) the attempt to out- corrupt the  (E minor) world,
and they're finished
But they never reach
Satori, you see
B 
And they never  (B major) see things as they really are,
Em 
in my  (E minor) opinion
B 
Of course there's another aspect to it, but on a very wonderful point,  (B major) 
Em 
it's just like we have a lakeside view,  (E minor) you can reach heaven through hell
B 
It doesn't matter  (B major) what road
you take to reach paradise
Em 
F# 
B 
Em 
Be (E minor) sides that, unlike that, paradise is  (F sharp major)  (B major) not even  (E minor) just around the corner,
but right under your nose
Em 
You see, you know, I've got  (E minor) to be
B 
Em 
lucky an (B major) d aware of the  (E minor) world
And I think that's
Em 
the breakthrough advice  (E minor) 
F# 
B 
Em 
 (F sharp major) That one  (B major) should, uh  (E minor) 
Em 
One  (E minor) should,
B 
how should I say, accept his  (B major) doubts completely
I think all the words are fine
Em 
C 
Em 
Accept  (E minor) his fear and  (C major) his frustra (E minor) tion
B 
See him  (B major) through
G#m 
B 
You  (G sharp minor) don't go  (B major) to a dump,
Em 
you don't go to an alcoholist's bubble  (E minor) 