Tonalità: A major
Verse 1
E
Virginia Woolf
G#
She leaves me cold
C#m
I recognize the genius
G#
But I'm twice as bold
Verse 2
A
I have more to say
E
Than Hemingway
B
F#
Lord knows, compared to Faulker
I say it in a better way
F#sus4
F#
Verse 3
E
Graham Greene
G#
He loves me
C#m
He loves my poetic
G#
Sensibility
Verse 4
A
Katherine Anne Porter
B
E
Might be the best one now
F#
But in about a year
G#sus4
I'm gonna show her how
C#m
A
Yes I will
G#
C#m
Verse 5
G#
E
Said to Reeves the other day
G#
Proust really is the man
C#m
Who comforts me in a way
G#
No other writer can
Verse 6
A
The timeless quality of the work
E
The length! Is very long
F#sus4
F#
Believe me Marcel Proust goes on
Verse 7
And on and on and on. 7 volumes
E
Oh, Harper. Harper
G#
Lee. Lee. Lee
C#m
She only wrote that one book
A
G#
I've written more than three
Verse 8
A
Darling Tennessee Williams
B
E
It's anybody's guess
F#
Why "Streetcar" made millions
And "Wedding" so much
less
G#sus4
C#m
Verse 9
A
C#m
A
C#m
I will forever be pondering that one
Verse 10
G#
Caug
A
Oh, Harper. Harper
G#
Lee. Lee. Lee
C#m
E
Why do they always compare her to me
Interlude 1
To me
A
Verse 11
E
Won't even talk about
G#
Eudora Welty
C#m
As for F. Scott, my Sad Cafe
G#
Is greater than his Gatsby
A
I'm just telling you
E
What someone told me they read
F#
I never look at my reviews
They might give me the big head
E
Now Truman Capote was
G#
hypnotized
C#m
Mesmerized. Cause he realized
That I knew that he knew
G#
That he had plagiarized
Verse 12
A
My cadences!
B
E
Imagine his surprise,
F#
You'll see it in his eyes
Verse 13
When I win that Nobel Prize
G#
A
E
A
Thank you. Thank you so very
much
G#
C#m
A
C#m
G#
Verse 14
A
Harper. Harper
G#
Lee. Lee. Lee
C#m
E
Why do they always compare her to me
To me
A
Verse 15
E
She always seems to be receiving
G#
More than she deserves
C#m
Honey, she's poaching on
G#
My literary preserves
Verse 16
A
Yes from Harper Lee
B
E
B
E
We have seen and we've heard and
F#
I'd like to kill more than just
That mockingbird
G#
Verse 17
A
G#
A
E
You know, sometimes I really would
G#
A
C#m
So you just wait until next year
Outro 1
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C#m
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