Tonart: Bb major
Verse 1
E
Bm
E
It's 1960 and a time
of theater innovation.
Bm
E
All commercial gimmicks,
Bm
F#m
all theatrical sensation.
Bm
G
There's theater in the park,
Bm
theater underground,
G
Bm
theater undersea,
B
and theater in the round.
C#m
A
Theater in a tent,
C#m
theater in a pool,
theater in a horseshoe,
F#m
D#m
B
But all this simply leaves me
F#m
with a rather heavy thud.
G#
C#m
A
There's just one kind of theater,
C#m
C#
E
F#m
for the theater in my blood.
B
E
C#
F#m
For I was born to play the tuaté,
B
F#m
B
E
The hoke, the corn, the empty matinee.
Bm
E
And so I know that
A
Am
vaudeville's just asleep,
E
C#
F#m
and so I gotta keep on dancin'
B
till I rake it up and dig it up and wake it up.
E
C#
F#m
I get no thrill from this atomic cage
B
F#m
G#
C#m
My home is still upon the
G#
C#m
E
palace stage
A
Am
E
G#m
C#
Where life's a song, as long as I can say
F#m
Faug
I belong to the wonderful world
F#m
B
E
C#m
C#
F#m
of the two a day
B
E
I am only excited and only impressed
C#m
by a corny routine
C#
F#m
and a checkerboard vest
Vaudeville thrills me
B
F#m
How can I ever begin to explain
B
why a shuffle like some of a hand
E
in the cave really kills me?
Bm
This current razzmatazz,
E
rock and roll and jazz,
A
E
all the noise that people make
Am
A
E
How can it possibly compare
C#m
C#
to the electric in the air
F#m
A
when the guy in spots yells,
F#m
B
G#
C#
G#
C#
Bb
D#m
Bbaug
D#m
First break, two, three!
G#
D#m
G#
C#
G#m
C#
G#m
C#
F#m
C#
A#
D#m
F#
D#m
F#
Bb
D#
G#m
Baug
I get no thrill from this atomic age
G#m
C#
G#m
Bb
My home is still upon
D#m
F#
the palisade
B
Bm
F#
Bbm
Where life's a song as long as I can say
D#
G#m
G#
I belong to the wonderful
G#m
Bb
D#m
world of the today
D#
G#m
G#
D#
where I can tell my jokes,
G#m
Adim
sing my song,
F#m
F#
B
D#m
show the folks that I belong
G#m
to the wonderful world of the Two -a,
D#m
G#m
to the wonderful world
C#
of the Two -a today!
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