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Intro
C/D | G | % | A | % |
(fade in)
Chorus
Look at the average person
Speak to the man in the street
A D A G/B [ C ]
Can you imagine the first one you'd meet?
Post-Chorus
| C | C G/B | A | A G/B |
| C | C G/B | A | % | % | % |
| A | % | % | % |
Verse 1
Well, I'm talking to a former engine driver (Dri-ver)
A | A Dm A |
Trying to find out what he used to do
Tells me that he always kept his engine (En - gine)
Spit and polished up as good as new
But he said his only great ambition
Was to work with lions in a zoo
Oh, to work with lions in a zoo
Bridge
Yes dear, you heard right
told me his ambition was to work with lions every night
Bridge
| Dm A/C# | Dm/B A |
(instrumental)
| Dm A/C# | Bm E | A |
(instrumental)
| A | % |
Chorus
Look at the average person
Speak to the man in the street
A D A G/B [ C ]
Can you imagine the first one you'd meet?
Post-Chorus
| C | C G/B | A | A G/B |
| C | C G/B | A | % | % | % |
Verse 2
Well, I met a woman working as a waitress (Waitress)
A | A Dm A |
I asked exactly what it was she did
Said she worked the summer crowd at seasides (Sea - sides)
Winter time she ran away and hid
Once she had a Hollywood audition
But the part was given to a kid
Yes, the part was given to a kid
Bridge
Yes, Sir, you heard right
Hollywood ambition made a starlet grown up overnight
Bridge
| Dm A/C# | Dm/B A |
(instrumental)
| Dm A/C# | Bm E |
(instrumental)
Interlude
| Fmaj7 | % | Cmaj7 | % |
(solo)
| Gm7 | % | Fmaj7 | % |
(solo)
| E7sus4 | % |
(I know someone, an engine driver)
| E | % |
(I know someone who'd been a boxer)
| E7sus4 | % |
(I know for sure, I know, I know that they are super!)
| E | E |
Verse 3
Well, I bumped into a man who'd been a boxer (Bo-xer)
A | A Dm A |
Asked him what had been his greatest night
He looked into the corners of his mem’ry (Mem’ - ry)
Searching for a picture of a fight
But he said he always had a feeling
That he lacked a little extra height
(Could have used a little extra height)
Bridge
Yes mate, you heard right
He always had a feeling that he might have lacked a little height
Bridge
| Dm A/C# | Dm/B A |
(instrumental)
| Dm A/C# | Bm E | A |
(instrumental)
Solo
= Bridge
| Dm A/C# | Dm/B A |
| Dm A/C# | Bm E |
Chorus
Look at the average person
Speak to the man in the queue
A D A G/B [ C ]
Can you imagine the first one is you?
Post-Chorus
| C | C G/B | A | A G/B |
| C | C G/B | A | A G/B |
Coda
| C | C G/B | A | A A/G |
(half-time)
| Fadd9 | % |
Look at the average person
(ritardando)
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