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John Cale
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Key: G major
Verse 1
F
F

Elsewhere in the temple
G
G

Gm
Gm

the llamas are gearing up
F
F

To assault a tiger mountain when
Gm
Gm

the sun comes up
F
F

Gm
Gm

F
F

Verse 2
Gm
Gm

F
F

We sat around whispering
Gm
Gm

in the candle light
F
F

Gm
Gm

Missing a game plan for the night
F
F

Learning about the difference
Gm
Gm

between north and south
F
F

Keep a gun in your pocket and your
Gm
Gm

tongue in your mouth
Verse 3
F
F

Gm
Gm

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

Doing it (doing the thing)
Gm
Gm

Doing it (doing the thing)
Bb
Bb

C
C

The thing you'd do in Denver
F
F

when you're dead
Verse 4
F
F

A month is a Saturday,
Gm
Gm

Wednesday is a week
F
F

I saw the way you looked at her
Gm
Gm

Charlie Brown good grief
F
F

She pulled you into the shadows
Gm
Gm

and taught you how to love
F
F

Patted you on the head
Gm
Gm

and gave you a shove
Verse 5
F
F

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

F
F

Gm
Gm

Doing it (doing the thing)
F
F

Gm
Gm

Doing it (doing the thing)
Bb
Bb

C
C

F
F

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

Gm
Gm

Dm
Dm

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

C
C

Verse 6
F
F

Gm
Gm

The sexual exuberance of a concubine
F
F

Gm
Gm

checks my carburetor one more time
F
F

With the passion of a thorough-bread
Gm
Gm

and and the sensitivity of a moose
F
F

I rarely make a move unless
Gm
Gm

I've got some proof
Verse 7
F
F

That I'll be do ing
Gm
Gm

it (doing the thing)
F
F

Gm
Gm

F
F

Doing it (doing the thing)
Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

Doing it (doing the thing)
C
C

The thing you do in Denver
F
F

when you're dead
Verse 8
C
C

You live in Paris, I live in France
F
F

Things are expensive when
you live first class
C
C

I learnt Latin, you learnt Greek
Gm
Gm

When you've got a minute
Bb
Bb

C
C

let's meet in Crete
Verse 9
F
F

Gm
Gm

F
F

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

F
F

Gm
Gm

Doing it (doing the thing)
Bb
Bb

C
C

Doing it (doing the thing)
F
F

Bb
Bb

C
C

The thing you do in Den
F
F

ver when you're dead
Verse 10
Bb
Bb

C
C

Doing it in Denver when you're
F
F

dead
Outro 1
Bb
Bb

C
C

F
F

Bb
Bb

C
C

F
F

F
F

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