Tonart: Eb major
Verse 1
F#
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,
F#
E#
I become selfish and tyrannical.
A#m
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
C#aug
F#
E#
To live exactly as he likes and
A#m
do precisely what he wants
D#
F#
An average man of mine,
D#m
C#
of no eccentric will
D#
A#dim
Who likes to live his life free of strife
A#m
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.
B
C#
She'll redecorate your home
B
from the cellar to the dome,
F#m
then go on to the enthralling fun
F#dim
C#
Ddim
C#
of overhauling you.
F#
Oh, let a woman in your life,
D#m
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
E
Keats or
F#
Milton,
Bsus4
she only wants to talk of love.
F#
G#
You go to see a play or bal let
and spend it searching for her glove.
C#
F#
Or let a wo man in your life
D#m
G#
and invite eternal strife.
C#
Let them buy their wedding bands
E
for those anxious little hands.
F#
I'd be equally as willing
for a dentist to be drilling,
A#m
G#
F#
D#m
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,
C#aug
Gb
who has the milk of human kind
F
Bbm
ness by the quart in every vein.
Eb
F#
A patient man am
D#m
C#
I, down to my fingertips,
D#
the sort who never could, ever would,
A#dim
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.
B
C#
She will beg you for advice,
your reply will be concise,
and she'll listen very nicely,
F#
Daug
F#
then go out and do precisely what she wants.
E
F#
You are a man of grace and polish,
Bsus4
Who never spoke above a hush
B
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
B
And you're plunging in a knife
G#
C#
Let the others of my sex
E
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
Gb
F
Db
Eb
room, who likes an atmosphere as restful as an undiscovered tomb,
Gb
a pensive man
Ebm
Db
Eb
of mine, of philosophic joys, who likes to med itate,
Bbdim
Eb
contemplate, free from
G#
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.
B
C#
In a line that never end s,
Come an army of her friends,
Come to jab her and to chatter,
And to tell her what the
F#
D#
matter is with you.
F#
D#
She'll have a booming,
F#
boisterous family,
B
Who will descend on you en masse?
G#
She'll have a large
Wagnerian mother
Eb
Ab
Db
With a voice that shatters glass!
Gb
Oh, let a woman in your life!
Ab
Let a woman in your life!
Eb
Ab
Eb
Let a woman in your life!
Cm
I shall never let a
Ab
Bbm
Eb
Ab
woman in my life.
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