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