Tonart: Eb major
Verse 1
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D
G
C
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,
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E
I become selfish and tyrannical.
Am
D
So here I am, confirmed old bach
F
C
elor and likely to remain so.
After all,
F
Pickering, I'm an ordinary man,
C
Who desires nothing more than
just the ordinary chance
Caug
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E
To live exactly as he likes and
Am
do precisely what he wants
D
F
An average man of mine,
Dm
C
of no eccentric will
D
Adim
Who likes to live his life free of strife
Am
D
Doing whatever he
C
thinks is best for him
G
C
Just an ordinary man
F
But, let a woman in your life,
and your serenity is through.
Bb
C
She'll redecorate your home
Bb
from the cellar to the dome,
Fm
then go on to the enthralling fun
Fdim
C
Dbdim
C
of overhauling you.
F
Oh, let a woman in your life,
Dm
and you're up against a wall.
C
Make a plan and you will find she has
something else in mind,
and so rather than do either,
you do something else
F
that neither likes at all.
If you want to talk of
Eb
Keats or
F
Milton,
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she only wants to talk of love.
F
G
You go to see a play or ballet
and spend it searching for her glove.
C
F
Or let a wo man in your life
Dm
G
and invite eternal strife.
C
Let them buy their wedding bands
Eb
for those anxious little hands.
F
I'd be equally as willing
for a dentist to be drilling,
Am
G
F
Dm
G
than to ever let a wo man in my life.
C
I'm a very gentle man, even -tempered and good -natured,
whom you never hear complain,
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F
who has the milk of human kind
E
Am
ness by the quart in every vein.
D
F
A patient man am
Dm
C
I, down to my fingertips,
D
the sort who never could, ever would,
Adim
D
Let an insulting remark
C
G
escape his lips.
C
He's a very gentle man.
F
But let a woman in your life
G
Patience hasn't got a chance.
Bb
C
She will beg you for advice,
your reply will be concise,
and she'll listen very nicely,
F
Dbaug
F
then go out and do precisely what she wants.
Eb
F
You are a man of grace and polish,
Bbsus4
Who never spoke above a hush
Bb
G
F
G
Now all at once you're using language
That would make a sailor blush
C
F
Oh, let a woman in your life
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And you're plunging in a knife
G
C
Let the others of my sex
Eb
Tie the knot around their necks
F
I'd prefer a new edition
Of the
Spanish
Inquisition
G
C
F
D
G
Than to ever let a woman in my life
C
I'm a quiet living man who prefers to spend
the evenings in the silence of his
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E
C
D
room, who likes an atmosphere as restful as an undiscovered tomb,
F
a pensive man
Dm
C
D
of mine, of philosophic joys, who likes to meditate,
Adim
D
contemplate, free from
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C
G
Humanity's mad in human noise.
C
Just a quiet living room.
F
But let a woman in your life,
G
And your sabbatical is through.
Bb
C
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
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D
matter is with you.
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D
She'll have a booming,
F
boisterous family,
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Who will descend on you en masse?
G
She'll have a large
Wagnerian mother
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G
C
With a voice that shatters glass!
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Oh, let a woman in your life!
G
Let a woman in your life!
D
G
D
Let a woman in your life!
Bm
I shall never let a
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Am
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G
woman in my life.
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