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