Key: Bb major•
Verse 1
Bb
G
Thank you very much.
Eb
Bb
G
Edim
Eb
Welcome to The New Morning.
Bb
G
Cm
F
C
F
Ebdim
B
Bb
F
Bb
Want to buy some illusions
Gm
Dm
Slightly used,
G
C
Cm
Baug
second hand
B
Bb
F
Bb
They were lovely illusions,
F
Gm
Dm
G
Ddim
G
reaching high, built on sand
Cm
Bb
Eb
Bb
They had a touch of paradise,
Gm
Dbdim
C
Faug
Gm
a spell you can't explain
A
D
Gm
For in this crazy paradise
C
F
Gbdim
D
You are in love with pain
Bb
F
Bb
Want to buy some il lusions
F
Gm
Dm
G
Cm
F
Slightly used, just like new
B
Bb
Such romantic illusions,
Bbdim
Eb
and they're all about you
Cm
Eb
Adim
Too bad they all fell apart,
D
Gm
D
C
like dreams often do
Bb
F
Dm
Gm
They were lovely illusions,
Cm
Gbdim
F
but they just would n't come
Bb
F
Bb
Baug
Bb
true.
Dm
G
C
Cm
B
Slightly used, just like new,
Eb
G
And they're all about you
Cm
Eb
Adim
D
I'd sell them all for a penny
Gm
C
They make pretty souvenirs
Bb
Dm
Gm
Take my lovely illusions
C
Cm
Ebdim
Some for laughs
Ebm
Cm
D
Bb
Gm
Eb
Some for tears
Ebm
Gm
Cm
Faug
Bb
This next song,
I'm using the translation,
a new translation done by one of my best,
best friends in Ireland,
the playwright and poet Frank McGuinness
and he did a new translation
of the Threatening Opera
about four or five years ago and
I played Pirate Jenny
in that production
at the Gate Theatre in Dublin
and I love this translation
I think it's so exceptional.
In this song Jenny who is
a prostitute
and a waitress
in a shitty hotel,
obviously on the docks,
and Mac Heath is her pimp,
is imagining,
is having a fantasy
of what she would do
to those who oppress her if she could.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb G Eb Edim Cm...
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