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