Kunci: C# minor•
Intro 1
C#m
B
A
C#m
Verse 1
B
tock on your electric clock
A
But still your life runs down.
C#m
Verse 2
There's no tick tock on
A
But still your life runs down.
Interlude 1
C#m
E
F#m
G#m
A
E
F#m
G#m
F#m
Verse 3
E
F#m
I'm halfway to heaven and
G#m
A
my home in Forest Hills
B
C#m
It's half past eleven and
D
C#m
B
I've got some time to kill.
E
F#m
I missed my bus connection
G#m
A
my train got in too late
B
And I'm forced into reflec
C#m
D
A
tion by this half hour wait.
Verse 4
A
E
F#m
Now I have been a straight man
E
G#
A
and I've played it by the rules
B
C#m
I been a good man, a good husband,
D
C#m
B
a good old fashioned fool.
E
F#m
I have a fine wife and two children
G#m
E
A
just like every body's got
B
C#m
But after fifteen years of marriage
D
C#m
A
the fires don't burn too hot.
Verse 5
A
B
E
Ahh someone played a trick on me.
G#
C#m
They set me up so perfectly
A
B
They Gave me their morality
C#m
rules they set for me.
A
B
E
Someone must be laughing now,
G#
Though it don't seem
C#m
A
funny somehow,
B
E
B
How the world's accepting now
G#
C#m
What they once would not allow
F#
Back in my younger days.
B
E
The world has changed in so many ways.
Verse 6
E
B
E
My mother once said to me so
F#m
G#m
many years ago now
A
Don't you touch those bad girls,
G#m
A
so I never had girls
G#m
A
Until I had my Mary
G#m
A
My Mary then had my two sons
G#m
A
My life as a lover was already done
G#m
A
D
It was over before it had really begun.
A
Verse 7
B
E
Ahh someone played a trick on me.
G#
C#m
They sent this little girl to me,
A
E
She is my new secretary
G#
C#m
And she's something to see.
F#
yeah She's a nice girl,
E
A
And she lives her life so free,
E
and she sure gets through to me
Interlude 2
A
E
A
G
B
Verse 8
E
F#m
She brings her pad into my office,
G#m
A
she wears a sweater and a skirt
B
C#m
And somewhere deep inside of
D
C#m
B
me something starts to hurt.
E
F#m
She's wearing nothing underneath,
G#m
A
and I can see what's there to see
C#m
D
A
"You wanted me?" I'd have to agree.
Verse 9
A
B
E
You know how much I want her,
G#
C#m
And I know that I could have her.
A
G#
C#m
I know I could, I know she would
F#m
F#
B
Make love to me, so wonderfully.
C#m
F#m
God damn, I'm one crazy
B
mixed up mixture of a man.
C#m
Verse 10
E
A
In my head all my life I've
E
A
been a sinner,
E
And in my bed with just my
A
E
A
wife I'm still a beginner,
E
A
E
F#m
But to morrow night I'm taking that little girl out to
C#m
dinner!
Interlude 3
C#m
B
A
C#m
B
F#
B
A
B
C#m
B
A
Verse 11
C#m
B
A
There's no tick tock on
C#m
B
your electric clock
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C#m
B
But still your life runs
Outro 1
down.
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C#m
B
A
C#m
B
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