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The Good Book chords by 
Tim Minchin 
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Key: F major•BPM: 120
Verse 1
G
A
D
Life is like an ocean voyage and our
bodies are the ships
A
And without a moral compass
Bm
we would all be cast adrift
D
G
A
So to keep us on our bearings
D
the Lord gave us a gift
A
And like most gifts ya get it was a book
Verse 2
Bm
D
I only read one book but it's a
G
Good Book don't you know
A
I act the way I act because
D
the Good Book tells me so
A
D
If I want to know how to be good it's
G
Gm
to the Good Book that I go
A
'Cause the Good Book is a book
D
and it is good and it's a book
Verse 3
D
I know the Good Book's good because
G
the Good Book says it's good
A
I know the Good Book knows it's good because
D
a really Good Book would
A
D
You couldn't cook without a cookbook
G
and I think it's understood
Gm
A
You can't be good without
a Good Book
D
'Cause it is good and it's a book
and it is good for cooking chook
Verse 4
Bm
I tried to read some other books
F#
but I soon gave up on that
G
The paragraphs ain't numbered
D
A
and they complicate the facts
F#
I can't read Harry Potter 'cause they're
Bm
G
Bm
worshipping false gods and that
E
G
E
And Dumbledore's a poofter and that's
A
Bm
B
C#m
A
bad 'cause it's not good
Verse 5
D
Morality is written there
G
in simple white and black
A
I feel sorry for you heathens got
D
A
to think about all that
D
G
Good is good and Evil's bad and goats
Gm
are good and pigs are crap
A
D
You'll find which one is which in the Good
Book 'cause it's good
And it's a book and it's a book
A
I
Verse 6
Bm
F#
had a cat she gave birth to a litter
G
The kittens were adorable and
D
A
they made my family laugh
F#
But as they grew they
Bm
started misbehaving
G
Bm
E
A
G
So I drowned the little fuckers
E
A
Bm
Cdim
in the bath
C#m
F#
When the creatures in your care
Bm
start being menaces
G
Bm
E
F#m
G
The answers can be found
E
A
Bm
right there in Genesis
C
A
B
(Chaptersix,
A
D
B
E
verses five to seven, yee haw!)
Verse 7
A
Swing your partner by the hand
Have a baby if you can
B
But if the voices in your head
E
Say to sacrifice your kid
To satiate your loving God's
A
Fetish for dead baby blood
B
It's simple faith the book demands
Bm
E
A
So raise that knife up in your hands
Verse 8
D
Before the Good Book made us good
G
there was no good way to know
A
If a thing was good or not that
D
good or kind of touch and go
A
D
So God decided he'd give
G
Gm
writing allegoric prose a go
A
And so he wrote a book and it was
G
generally well-received
Verse 9
D
G
The The Telegraph said,
D
A
"This God is reminiscent of the Norse"
G
The Times said, "Kind of turgid,
D
A
but I liked the bits with horses"
F#
The Mail said "Lots of massacres“ a
Bm
violent tour de force
E
F#
E
"If you only read one book this year,
A
Bm
Cdim
A
B
C#m
E
Then this one is a book and it is good and it's a book,
yee haw!"
Verse 10
E
Swing your daughter by the hand
A
But if she gets raped by a man
B
And re fuses then to marry him
Bm
B
Stone her to death
Verse 11
C#m
If you just close your eyes
G#
and block your ears
A
To the ac cumulated knowledge
E
B
of the last 2000 years
G#
Then morally, guess what,
C#m
you're off the hook
A
F#
And thank Christ you only
B
have to read one book
Verse 12
Bm
F#
Just because the book's contents
Were written generations hence
Bm
By hairy desert-dwelling gents
F#
gents
Bm
Squatting in their dusty tents
C#m
Just because what heaven said
G#
Was said before they'd leavened bread
C#m
Just cos Jesus couldn't read
G#
Doesn't mean that we should need
A
When ma nipulating human genes
E
To alleviate pain or fight disease
A
When deciding whether
it's wrong or right
E
To help the dying let go of life
B
Or to stop a pregnancy when it's
Just a tiny blastocyst
G#
There's no reason that
C#m
we should take a look
B
A
E
At any other book but the Good Book
F#
G#m
G#
cos it is good and it's a book
F#
B
C#m
And it's a book and it's
D
B
quite good
Interlude 1
E
A
B
E
Verse 13
E
A
Good is good and evil's bad and kids
Am
get killed when God gets mad
B
You'd better take a good
B
E
look at the Good Book
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