Kunci: F major
Verse 1
Bb
C
F
Life is like an ocean voyage and our
bodies are the ships
C
And without a moral compass
Dm
we would all be cast adrift
F
Bb
C
So to keep us on our bearings
C
And like most gifts ya get it was a book
Verse 2
Dm
F
I only read one book but it's a
Bb
Good Book don't you know
C
I act the way I act because
F
the Good Book tells me so
C
F
If I want to know how to be good it's
Bb
Bbm
to the Good Book that I go
C
'Cause the Good Book is a book
F
and it is good and it's a book
Verse 3
F
I know the Good Book's good because
Bb
the Good Book says it's good
C
I know the Good Book knows it's good because
C
F
You couldn't cook without a cookbook
Bb
and I think it's understood
Bbm
C
You can't be good without
a Good Book
F
'Cause it is good and it's a book
and it is good for cooking chook
Verse 4
Dm
I tried to read some other books
A
but I soon gave up on that
Bb
The paragraphs ain't numbered
F
C
and they complicate the facts
A
I can't read Harry Potter 'cause they're
Dm
Bb
Dm
worshipping false gods and that
G
Bb
G
And Dumbledore's a poofter and that's
C
Dm
D
Em
C
bad 'cause it's not good
Verse 5
F
Morality is written there
Bb
in simple white and black
C
I feel sorry for you heathens got
F
C
to think about all that
F
Bb
Good is good and Evil's bad and goats
Bbm
are good and pigs are crap
C
F
You'll find which one is which in the Good
Book 'cause it's good
And it's a book and it's a book
Verse 6
Dm
A
had a cat she gave birth to a litter
Bb
The kittens were adorable and
F
C
they made my family laugh
Bb
Dm
G
C
Bb
So I drowned the little fuckers
G
C
Dm
Ebdim
in the bath
Em
A
When the creatures in your care
Bb
Dm
G
Am
Bb
The answers can be found
G
C
Dm
right there in Genesis
Eb
C
D
(Chaptersix,
C
F
D
G
verses five to seven, yee haw!)
Verse 7
C
Swing your partner by the hand
Have a baby if you can
D
But if the voices in your head
G
Say to sacrifice your kid
To satiate your loving God's
C
Fetish for dead baby blood
D
It's simple faith the book demands
Dm
G
C
So raise that knife up in your hands
Verse 8
F
Before the Good Book made us good
Bb
there was no good way to know
C
If a thing was good or not that
F
good or kind of touch and go
C
F
So God decided he'd give
Bb
Bbm
writing allegoric prose a go
C
And so he wrote a book and it was
Bb
generally well-received
Verse 9
F
Bb
The The Telegraph said,
F
C
"This God is reminiscent of the Norse"
Bb
The Times said, "Kind of turgid,
F
C
but I liked the bits with horses"
A
The Mail said "Lots of massacres“ a
G
A
G
"If you only read one book this year,
C
Dm
Ebdim
C
D
Em
G
Then this one is a book and it is good and it's a book,
yee haw!"
Verse 10
G
Swing your daughter by the hand
C
But if she gets raped by a man
D
And re fuses then to marry him
Dm
D
Stone her to death
Verse 11
Em
If you just close your eyes
C
To the ac cumulated knowledge
G
D
of the last 2000 years
B
Then morally, guess what,
C
A
And thank Christ you only
Verse 12
Dm
A
Just because the book's contents
Were written generations hence
Dm
By hairy desert-dwelling gents
Dm
Squatting in their dusty tents
Em
Just because what heaven said
B
Was said before they'd leavened bread
Em
Just cos Jesus couldn't read
B
Doesn't mean that we should need
C
When ma nipulating human genes
G
To alleviate pain or fight disease
it's wrong or right
G
To help the dying let go of life
D
Or to stop a pregnancy when it's
Just a tiny blastocyst
D
C
G
At any other book but the Good Book
A
Bm
B
cos it is good and it's a book
A
D
Em
And it's a book and it's
F
D
quite good
Interlude 1
G
C
D
G
Verse 13
G
C
Good is good and evil's bad and kids
Cm
get killed when God gets mad
D
G
look at the Good Book
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