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Key: G major
Verse 1
Bb
Bb

Elsewhere in the temple
C
C

Cm
Cm

the llamas are gearing up
Bb
Bb

To assault a tiger mountain when
Cm
Cm

the sun comes up
Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

Verse 2
Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

We sat around whispering
Cm
Cm

in the candle light
Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

Missing a game plan for the night
Bb
Bb

Learning about the difference
Cm
Cm

between north and south
Bb
Bb

Keep a gun in your pocket and your
Cm
Cm

tongue in your mouth
Verse 3
Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

You'd be doing it (doing the thing)
Bb
Bb

Doing it (doing the thing)
Cm
Cm

Doing it (doing the thing)
Eb
Eb

F
F

The thing you'd do in Denver
Bb
Bb

when you're dead
Verse 4
Bb
Bb

A month is a Saturday,
Cm
Cm

Wednesday is a week
Bb
Bb

I saw the way you looked at her
Cm
Cm

Charlie Brown good grief
Bb
Bb

She pulled you into the shadows
Cm
Cm

and taught you how to love
Bb
Bb

Patted you on the head
Cm
Cm

and gave you a shove
Verse 5
Bb
Bb

And you were doing it
(doing the thing)
Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

Doing it (doing the thing)
Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

Doing it (doing the thing)
Eb
Eb

F
F

Bb
Bb

The thing you do in Denver when you're dead
Interlude 1
Gm
Gm

Cm
Cm

Gm
Gm

Dm
Dm

Gm
Gm

Cm
Cm

Eb
Eb

F
F

Verse 6
Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

The sexual exuberance of a concubine
Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

checks my carburetor one more time
Bb
Bb

With the passion of a thorough-bread
Cm
Cm

and and the sensitivity of a moose
Bb
Bb

I rarely make a move unless
Cm
Cm

I've got some proof
Verse 7
Bb
Bb

That I'll be do ing
Cm
Cm

it (doing the thing)
Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

Doing it (doing the thing)
Cm
Cm

Eb
Eb

Doing it (doing the thing)
F
F

The thing you do in Denver
Bb
Bb

when you're dead
Verse 8
F
F

You live in Paris, I live in France
Bb
Bb

Things are expensive when
you live first class
F
F

I learnt Latin, you learnt Greek
Cm
Cm

When you've got a minute
Eb
Eb

F
F

let's meet in Crete
Verse 9
Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

We'll be doing it (doing the thing)
Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

Cm
Cm

Doing it (doing the thing)
Eb
Eb

F
F

Doing it (doing the thing)
Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

F
F

The thing you do in Den
Bb
Bb

ver when you're dead
Verse 10
Eb
Eb

F
F

Doing it in Denver when you're
Bb
Bb

dead
Outro 1
Eb
Eb

F
F

Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

F
F

Bb
Bb

Bb
Bb

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