Key: Bb major
Verse 1
G
Dm
G
It's 1960 and a time
of theater innovation.
Dm
G
All commercial gimmicks,
Dm
Am
all theatrical sensation.
Dm
Bb
There's theater in the park,
Bb
Dm
theater undersea,
Em
C
Theater in a tent,
theater in a horseshoe,
Am
F#m
D
But all this simply leaves me
B
Em
C
There's just one kind of theater,
Em
E
G
Am
for the theater in my blood.
D
G
E
Am
For I was born to play the tuaté,
D
Am
D
G
The hoke, the corn, the empty matinee.
Dm
G
And so I know that
C
Cm
vaudeville's just asleep,
G
E
Am
and so I gotta keep on dancin'
D
till I rake it up and dig it up and wake it up.
G
E
Am
I get no thrill from this atomic cage
D
Am
B
Em
My home is still upon the
B
Em
G
palace stage
C
Cm
G
Bm
E
Where life's a song, as long as I can say
Am
Abaug
I belong to the wonderful world
Am
D
G
Em
E
Am
of the two a day
D
G
I am only excited and only impressed
E
Am
and a checkerboard vest
Vaudeville thrills me
D
Am
How can I ever begin to explain
C
G
all the noise that people make
Cm
C
G
How can it possibly compare
Em
E
to the electric in the air
Am
C
when the guy in spots yells,
Am
D
B
E
B
E
C#
F#m
C#aug
F#m
First break, two, three!
B
F#m
B
E
Bm
E
Bm
E
Am
E
C#
F#m
A
F#m
A
C#
F#
Bm
Daug
I get no thrill from this atomic age
Bm
E
Bm
C#
My home is still upon
F#m
A
the palisade
D
Dm
A
C#m
Where life's a song as long as I can say
F#
Bm
B
I belong to the wonderful
Bm
C#
F#m
world of the today
F#
Bm
B
F#
where I can tell my jokes,
Bm
Cdim
sing my song,
Am
A
D
F#m
show the folks that I belong
F#m
Bm
to the wonderful world
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