Tonalità: B minor
Intro 1
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E#
C#
Verse 1
F#m
There was a time when I saw
D
myself a flood- lit figure on the stage
F#m
The Metropolitan Opera,
E
the Daily Critic's latest rage
Bm
C#m
But my voice went through a change
D#m
Em
about the same time as my skin
E
C#m
F#m
Now the op era is gone and what
G#m
C#m
is left is getting awfully thin
F#m
Verse 2
There was a time when I saw myself
D
a superstar upon the stage
F#m
In someone's rock and roll opera,
E
but then my throat began to age
Bm
C#m
And I wound up working night s with
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Em
afternoons when I'm awake
E
C#m
F#m
G#m
So I watch the daily dramas as my life
C#m
becomes a coffee break
F#m
Verse 3
F#
Here's the story up to date
D#m
Shirley's found another mate
A#m
Though she'll wind up with
C#m
E
her husband in the end
B
But her husband's got no life
G#m
He can't make it with his wife
C#m
Though his secretary's more
F#
than just his friend
Verse 4
F#
It's a day- to- day routine and
D#m
I watch the TV screen
A#m
Letting Bob and Shirley
C#m
live my life for me
B
It's an opera made of soap using
G#m
oth er people's hope
C#m
And to morrow's show ain't
F#m
soon enough for me
Verse 5
F#m
There was a time when I saw myself
D
a clean- cut cowboy on the screen
F#m
A spurs- and- saddle horse opera,
E
but that's a long- forgotten dream
Bm
C#m
So I watch Let's Make a Deal
D#m
Em
and win the jackpot in my brain
C#m
F#m
Then it's time to watch the show that's
G#m
C#m
got my cerebellum half insane
F#m
Verse 6
F#
Here's the story down to earth
D#m
Shirley's finally given birth
A#m
She's been carrying the
E
C#m
baby for a year
E
B
Though it don't belong to Bob
G#m
Who's been fired from
C#m
his job as a surgeon
F#
'Cause he's got this sudden fear
Verse 7
F#
He can't stand the sight of blood
D#m
Meanwhile Shirley's mining Judd
A#m
Who's the father of the kid
C#m
E
C#m
but he won't give
B
And tomorrow's show will say
G#m
what they left out yesterday
C#m
F#
And that gives me one good reason I should live
B
G#m
Interlude 1
Bm
G#dim
Bm
F#
D#
G#dim
C#m
F#m
F#
Here's the story
Verse 8
in a shell
D#m
Bobby's mind is shot to hell
A#m
'Cause he can't recall
C#m
his name or how he feels
E
B
He's a lost amnesiac
G#m
C#m
While his wife is in the back of her station
F#
wagon notching up her heels
Verse 9
F#
Meanwhile Bob's assistant nurse
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has some pois on in her purse
A#m
And she's gonna slip into
C#m
Shirley's soup
B
Good old Judd thought up the scheme
G#m
Good old Judd is Shirley's dream
C#m
But old Judd don't want
F#
to share her chicken coop
Verse 10
F#
And the nurse would like to keep Shirley's
D#m
A#m
body six feet deep in her grave
C#
C#m
And chase him to the Baltic Sea
B
For she sees herself his wife to poor Bob
G#m
C#m
Who's found a life as a farmer
F#
since he lost his memory
Verse 11
F#
So to give a resume
D#m
Bobby's bail ing up the hay
A#m
C#
While his wife is in the straw
C#m
E
with Bill and Fred
B
But she don't feel great inside
G#m
C#m
It's that dose of cyanide that the nurse and
F#
Judd will feed her til she's dead
Verse 12
F#
There's a baby who just grew
D#m
fifteen years in only two
F#
A#m
C#
And she has her eyes on
C#m
Judd who is her dad
E
B
But of course she can't know that
She just knows just where it's at
As her mother says,
"It's good to be so glad"
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