Tonart: Ab major
Verse 1
G
F#m
G
Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
Gm
F#m
As I enter a doctor's office
G
F#m
on 57th between 8th an d 9th,
G
Gm
a rat comes zigzag towards me
G
like a powder fuse towards
a keg.
F
Every three months I'd meet
Gm
Émile in Le Petit Prince
F#m
or another high -end restaurant in Algiers.
Gm
G
C
In Le Normand, we bought foie
G
F#m
gras by the ounce,
even as we rearranged the deck chairs.
G
It seemed rats given a high dosage
Gm
of the amaranth dye found in maraschino
G
cherries would develop tumours,
so he favoured mint
F#m
to garnish his creme de menthe.
G
Bottoms up, old boy. Cheers.
If he didn't have fresh mint,
he'd extemporise.
If he didn't have fresh mint,
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he'd extemporise with something from
the diplomatic pouch
G
to simultaneously pep up and
put dampers on our spirits.
F#m
C
G
One woman flashed the badge of a nipple,
but looked askance when I took it in.
G
F
Once it was all cloak and dagger,
F#m
G
we were all under cover once,
until Emile's headstrong creed occur against my using the
hand he kept in the fridge of his apartment on Rue Tagore
Am
to plant a fingerprint on a doorknob,
F#m
G
In those years it was so much easier
G
to fudge the evidence before DNA
and my own dodgy ticker,
Gm
G
the years spent chained to a briefcase.
The years I spent with a briefcase
F#m
G
chained to my wrist are as
nothing now.
Gm
Those most pervacatious
young creatures
Gm
F
I encouraged to do their worst,
Gm
F
having long since re nounced their claims
or fallen foul of special ups.
F
Every October,
Emile would make a syrup of quince.
been toodle -pipped
F
at the boast by the mediocrity,
F#m
F
the closest I now come to a stab of joy it
G
F#m
self being somewhat amorphous.
the fleeting smile,
F
the blood test proving negative
that lends a bounce to my step
as I leave a doctor's office.
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