Tonart: Eb major
Verse 1
Ab
F
Bb
Eb
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,
Ab
G
I become selfish and tyrannical.
Cm
F
So here I am, confirmed old bach
Ab
Eb
elor and likely to remain so.
After all,
Ab
Pickering, I'm an ordinary man,
Eb
Who desires nothing more than
just the ordinary chance
Ebaug
Ab
G
To live exactly as he likes and
Cm
do precisely what he wants
F
Ab
An average man of mine,
Fm
Eb
of no eccentric will
F
Cdim
Who likes to live his life free of strife
Cm
F
Doing whatever he
Eb
thinks is best for him
Bb
Eb
Just an ordinary man
Ab
But, let a woman in your life,
and your serenity is through.
Db
Eb
She'll redecorate your home
Db
from the cellar to the dome,
Abm
then go on to the enthralling fun
Abdim
Eb
Edim
Eb
of overhauling you.
Ab
Oh, let a woman in your life,
Fm
and you're up against a wall.
Eb
Make a plan and you will find she has
something else in mind,
and so rather than do either,
you do something else
Ab
that neither likes at all.
If you want to talk of
Gb
Keats or
Ab
Milton,
Dbsus4
she only wants to talk of love.
Ab
Bb
You go to see a play or bal let
and spend it searching for her glove.
Eb
Ab
Or let a wo man in your life
Fm
Bb
and invite eternal strife.
Eb
Let them buy their wedding bands
Gb
for those anxious little hands.
Ab
I'd be equally as willing
for a dentist to be drilling,
Cm
Bb
Ab
Fm
Bb
than to ever let a wo man in my life.
Eb
I'm a very gentle man, even -tempered and good -natured,
whom you never hear complain,
Ebaug
Ab
who has the milk of human kind
G
Cm
ness by the quart in every vein.
F
Ab
A patient man am
Fm
Eb
I, down to my fingertips,
F
the sort who never could, ever would,
Cdim
F
Let an insulting remark
Eb
Bb
escape his lips.
Eb
He's a very gentle man.
Ab
But let a woman in your life
Bb
Patience hasn't got a chance.
Db
Eb
She will beg you for advice,
your reply will be concise,
and she'll listen very nicely,
Ab
Eaug
Ab
then go out and do precisely what she wants.
Gb
Ab
You are a man of grace and polish,
Dbsus4
Who never spoke above a hush
Db
Bb
Ab
Bb
Now all at once you're using language
That would make a sailor blush
Eb
Ab
Oh, let a woman in your life
Db
And you're plunging in a knife
Bb
Eb
Let the others of my sex
Gb
Tie the knot around their necks
Ab
I'd prefer a new edition
Of the
Spanish
Inquisition
Bb
Eb
Ab
F
Bb
Than to ever let a woman in my life
Eb
I'm a quiet living man who prefers to spend
the evenings in the silence of his
Ab
G
Eb
F
room, who likes an atmosphere as restful as an undiscovered tomb,
Ab
a pensive man
Fm
Eb
F
of mine, of philosophic joys, who likes to meditate,
Cdim
F
contemplate, free from
Bb
Eb
Bb
Humanity's mad in human noise.
Eb
Just a quiet living room.
Ab
But let a woman in your life,
Bb
And your sabbatical is through.
Db
Eb
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
Ab
F
matter is with you.
Ab
F
She'll have a booming,
Ab
boisterous family,
Db
Who will descend on you en masse?
Bb
She'll have a large
Wagnerian mother
F
Bb
Eb
With a voice that shatters glass!
Ab
Oh, let a woman in your life!
Bb
Let a woman in your life!
F
Bb
F
Let a woman in your life!
Dm
I shall never let a
Bb
Cm
F
Bb
woman in my life.
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