Tonart: Eb major
Verse 1
E
C#
F#
B
I find the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous,
exacting, suspicious and a damn nuisance.
I find the moment that I make friends with a woman,
E
D#
I become selfish and tyrannical.
G#m
C#
So here I am, confirmed old bach
E
B
elor and likely to remain so.
After all,
E
Pickering, I'm an ordinary man,
B
Who desires nothing more than
just the ordinary chance
Baug
E
D#
To live exactly as he likes and
G#m
do precisely what he wants
C#
E
An average man of mine,
C#m
B
of no eccentric will
C#
G#dim
Who likes to live his life free of strife
G#m
C#
Doing whatever he
B
thinks is best for him
F#
B
Just an ordinary man
E
But, let a woman in your life,
and your serenity is through.
A
B
She'll redecorate your home
A
from the cellar to the dome,
Em
then go on to the enthralling fun
Edim
B
Cdim
B
of overhauling you.
E
Oh, let a woman in your life,
C#m
and you're up against a wall.
B
Make a plan and you will find she has
something else in mind,
and so rather than do either,
you do something else
E
that neither likes at all.
If you want to talk of
D
Keats or
E
Milton,
Asus4
she only wants to talk of love.
E
F#
You go to see a play or bal let
and spend it searching for her glove.
B
E
Or let a wo man in your life
C#m
F#
and invite eternal strife.
B
Let them buy their wedding bands
D
for those anxious little hands.
E
I'd be equally as willing
for a dentist to be drilling,
G#m
F#
E
C#m
F#
than to ever let a wo man in my life.
B
I'm a very gentle man, even -tempered and good -natured,
whom you never hear complain,
Baug
E
who has the milk of human kind
D#
G#m
ness by the quart in every vein.
C#
E
A patient man am
C#m
B
I, down to my fingertips,
C#
the sort who never could, ever would,
G#dim
C#
Let an insulting remark
B
F#
escape his lips.
B
He's a very gentle man.
E
But let a woman in your life
F#
Patience hasn't got a chance.
A
B
She will beg you for advice,
your reply will be concise,
and she'll listen very nicely,
E
Caug
E
then go out and do precisely what she wants.
D
E
You are a man of grace and polish,
Asus4
Who never spoke above a hush
A
F#
E
F#
Now all at once you're using language
That would make a sailor blush
B
E
Oh, let a woman in your life
A
And you're plunging in a knife
F#
B
Let the others of my sex
D
Tie the knot around their necks
E
I'd prefer a new edition
Of the
Spanish
Inquisition
F#
B
E
C#
F#
Than to ever let a woman in my life
B
I'm a quiet living man who prefers to spend
the evenings in the silence of his
E
D#
B
C#
room, who likes an atmosphere as restful as an undiscovered tomb,
E
a pensive man
C#m
B
C#
of mine, of philosophic joys, who likes to med itate,
G#dim
C#
contemplate, free from
F#
B
F#
Humanity's mad in human noise.
B
Just a quiet living room.
E
But let a woman in your life,
F#
And your sabbatical is through.
A
B
In a line that never ends,
Come an army of her friends,
Come to jab her and to chatter,
And to tell her what the
E
C#
matter is with you.
E
C#
She'll have a booming,
E
boisterous family,
A
Who will descend on you en masse?
F#
She'll have a large
Wagnerian mother
C#
F#
B
With a voice that shatters glass!
E
Oh, let a woman in your life!
F#
Let a woman in your life!
C#
F#
C#
Let a woman in your life!
A#m
I shall never let a
F#
G#m
C#
F#
woman in my life.
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