| A | |
| Well let me tell you something let me tell you so |
| This could be the one thing that you really need to know |
| D | |
| You've got to s | top once in a while |
| A | |
| And shake off that f | ace of yours |
| F#m | C#m | |
| Cause nothing comes easy n | o it just comes free |
| Em | C#m | E | |
| You could sing it better if you'd si | ng it for me oh s | ister |
| A | |
| Well I cannot claim this advice as my own |
| I learned it in the gutter one night crawling home |
| D | |
| She said " | Don't you look ridiculous" |
| A | |
| I checked her out metic | ulously |
| F#m | |
| I don't wanna' stop to argue but my |
| C#m | |
| Teeth were broke |
| F#m | |
| I said " I'd | love to contradict you |
| C#m | E | |
| But my l | ife's a joke oh s | ister" |
| A | |
| She said I | 'm no genius and I've lost myself |
| The books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf |
| D | |
| And it's | one time keep it slow wind them up and here we go |
| A | |
| Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow |
| E | |
| Some said she was saintly to some she was a swinger |
| D | A | |
| Me I only knew here as an acid jazz singer come | on |
| A | |
| Well I'm a lucky man and maybe so is she |
| And maybe this is just the way it has to be |
| D | |
| It's all ba | sed on speculation seems a crazy occupation to me |
| F#m | C#m | |
| And though I didn't much believe her | I was bound to call |
| F#m | C#m | E | |
| I really didn't want to mi | ss a single thing at all oh s | ister |
| A | |
| She said I | 'm no genius and I've lost myself |
| The books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf |
| D | |
| And it's one time keep it slow wind them up and here we go |
| A | |
| Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow |
| E | |
| Some said she was saintly to some she was a swinger |
| D | A | |
| Me I only knew here as an acid jazz singer come o | n |
| A | |
| She said I'm no genius and I've lost myself |
| The books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf |
| D | |
| And it's | one time keep it slow wind them up and here we go |
| A | |
| Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow |
| E | |
| Some said she was saintly to some she was a swinger |
| D | |
| Me I only knew here as an acid jazz singer |
| E | |
| I haven't seen her lately man I have to ring her |
| D | A | |
| Put your hands together for the Acid jazz singer c | ome on... |