G C G Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the worldAm Em I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girlAm D How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?Am D How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?C Em Oh elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablazeAm D Em a trail for the devil to erase G C G San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will playAm Em Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?Am D We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stayAm D We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tellC Em G#out the saddest book you ever read, it always makes you cryAm D Em The statue’s crying too and well he may G C G I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring faceAm Em I love you my responsibility has found a placeAm D Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle wordsAm D Come wave upon me from the wider family net absurdC Em “You’ll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job”Am D Em Maybe, but not what she deserves G C G Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awakeAm Em We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificatesAm D a privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 styleAm D We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passer byC Em And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debateAm D Em In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare G C G The catcher hits for .318 and catches every dayAm Em The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidaysAm D He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floorAm D He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for a doorwayC Em Back into the life he wants and the confession of the benchAm D Em Life outside the diamond is a wrench G C G I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekendAm Em I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretendAm D a lady stepping from the songs we love until this dayAm D You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away, Renee”C Em The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower Am D Em Meet you at the statue in an hourAm D Em Meet you at the statue in an hour
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