Soap Opera chords by
Rupert Holmes

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Key: B minor•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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There was a time when I saw

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myself a flood- lit figure on the stage

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The Metropolitan Opera,

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the Daily Critic's latest rage

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But my voice went through a change

F#m

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about the same time as my skin

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Now the op era is gone and what

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is left is getting awfully thin

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Verse 2

There was a time when I saw myself

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a superstar upon the stage

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In someone's rock and roll opera,

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but then my throat began to age

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And I wound up working nights with

F#m

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afternoons when I'm awake

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So I watch the daily dramas as my life

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becomes a coffee break

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Verse 3

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Here's the story up to date

F#m

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Shirley's found another mate

C#m

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Though she'll wind up with

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her husband in the end

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But her husband's got no life

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He can't make it with his wife

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Though his secretary's more

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than just his friend

Verse 4

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It's a day- to- day routine and

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I watch the TV screen

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Letting Bob and Shirley

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live my life for me

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It's an opera made of soap using

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oth er people's hope

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And to morrow's show ain't

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soon enough for me

Verse 5

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There was a time when I saw myself

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a clean- cut cowboy on the screen

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A spurs- and- saddle horse opera,

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but that's a long- forgotten dream

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So I watch Let's Make a Deal

F#m

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and win the jackpot in my brain

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Then it's time to watch the show that's

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got my cerebellum half insane

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Verse 6

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Here's the story down to earth

F#m

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Shirley's finally given birth

C#m

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She's been carrying the

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baby for a year

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Though it don't belong to Bob

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Who's been fired from

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his job as a surgeon

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'Cause he's got this sudden fear

Verse 7

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He can't stand the sight of blood

F#m

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Meanwhile Shirley's mining Judd

C#m

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Who's the father of the kid

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but he won't give

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And tomorrow's show will say

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what they left out yesterday

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And that gives me one good reason I should live

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Interlude 1

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Bdim

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Bdim

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Here's the story

Verse 8

in a shell

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Bobby's mind is shot to hell

C#m

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'Cause he can't recall

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his name or how he feels

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He's a lost amnesiac

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While his wife is in the back of her station

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wagon notching up her heels

Verse 9

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Meanwhile Bob's assistant nurse

F#m

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has some pois on in her purse

C#m

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And she's gonna slip into

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Shirley's soup

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Good old Judd thought up the scheme

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Good old Judd is Shirley's dream

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But old Judd don't want

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to share her chicken coop

Verse 10

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And the nurse would like to keep Shirley's

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C#m

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body six feet deep in her grave

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And chase him to the Baltic Sea

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For she sees herself his wife to poor Bob

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Who's found a life as a farmer

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since he lost his memory

Verse 11

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So to give a resume

F#m

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Bobby's bail ing up the hay

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While his wife is in the straw

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with Bill and Fred

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But she don't feel great inside

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It's that dose of cyanide that the nurse and

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Judd will feed her til she's dead

Verse 12

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There's a baby who just grew

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fifteen years in only two

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C#m

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And she has her eyes on

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Judd who is her dad

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But of course she can't know that

She just knows just where it's at

As her mother says,

"It's good to be so glad"

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A#
G#
E
Am
F
G
Dm
Em
F#m
Gm
Bm
A
C#m
D
Bdim
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Capo: 2

Transpose: 0

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A#
G#
E
Am
F
G
Dm
Em
F#m
Gm
Bm
A
C#m
D
Bdim
F#
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