G7M                         A
From the courtyard, I floated in
     Bm
And watched it go down
A/F#m
Heard the cup drop

Thought, "Well
                F#m
That's why they keep them around."
     C#m7                  /B
The blackguard sat hard, down
        A
With no head on him now
    D7M
And I felt so bad
        G7M
Cause I didn't know how
    F#/D    Em
To feel bad enough
              D ( D7M  D7  D5+(7) )
To make him proud

G7M
By the time you read this
             Bm
I will be so far away
A/F#m
Daddy longlegs, how in the world
           F#m
Am I to be expected to stay?
C#m7
In the night—
           B         A
In the night, you may hear me call
D7M
Pa, stay your hand
G7M
And steel your resolve
F#/D           Em
Stay where you are
            D
So long and tall

( D7  D5+(7) )

D               C
Here's Lola--ta da!--to do
     Bb           F
Her famous Spider Dance for you!
G               A
Lighten up your pockets!
F                    Eb
Shake her skirts and scatter, there
  Bb                    Gm
A shrieking, six-legged millionaire
       C
With a blight in his sockets

D
Miss Montez
    C             Bb
The Countess of Lansfeld
F               G       A
Appealed to the King of Bavaria
         F
Saying, "Pretty papa
        Eb
If you are my friend—
       Bb                       Gm
Mister daddy longlegs, they are at

It again!—
       C
Can I see ya?"

D             C
Poor Lola! A tarantula mounting
Bb
Countess Lansfeld's

F             G
Handsome brassiere
                A
While they all cheer
         F                 Eb
And the old king fell from grace
             Bb
While Lola fled
        Gm           C
To save face and her career

Am           Em    B7      C
You caught a fly, floating by
D               F
Wait for him to drown in the dust
E7                               C
Drown in the dust of other flies
Am                     Em
Whereby the machine is run
B7              C
And the deed is done
D              F
Heaven has no word
            E7
For the way you and your friends
     C                  D
Have treated poor Louis
C         Bb        F          D  A
May god save your poor soul, Lo-la!

( D  A )

      G      F     Eb        Bb
(But there is nothing I adore
Cm              G       F
Apart from that whore's black
C
Heart.)

      D                      C
Well, doesn't that just beat all!

Miss Gilbert
Bb              F
Called to Castlemaine
              G
By the silver dollar and the gold
 A
Glitter!
      F
Well, I've seen lots
    Eb          Bb
But never, in a million years
       Gm               C
Would think to see you, here
            D
Though the long road
           C
Begins and ends with you
          Bb            F
I cannot seem to make amends
    G      A
With you, Louis
     F
When we go out
        Eb           Bb      Gm
They're bound to see you with me

   D                     C
At night, I walk in the park

With a whip
             Bb
Between the lines
                  F
Of the whispering Jesuits
        G             A
Who are poisoning you against me
          F
There's a big black spider
         Eb
Hanging over my door
         Bb           Gm
Can't go anywhere, anymore
          C
Tell me, are you with me?

   D                     C
I called to you, several times
          Bb
While the change took place
     F                 G
And then arrived, all night
      A
And I died
    F
But all these songs
     Eb                  Bb
When you and I are long gone
           Gm
Will carry on
            C
Mud in your eye

Am           Em
You asked my hand
B7       C
Hired a band
 D                      F
"In your heart is all that you need
E                C
Ask and you will receive," it is
Said
  B/C         Am
I threw my bouquet
                  Em
And I knocked 'em dead
          B7               C
Bottle of white, bottle of red
D              F
Helpless as a child
              E
When you held me in your arms
        C
And I knew that no other
               B/C        Am
Could ever love me as you loved
               Em
Love me as you loved
    B7           C
But help me! I'm leaving!
D            F
I remember everything
E                        C
Down to the sound of you shaving--

The scrape of your razor
    B/C   Am
The dully-abrading black hair
      Em
That remained
        B7           C
When you clutched at me
 D                 F
That night I came upstairs

Half-dead
E
And, in your kindness
        C
You put me straightaway

In the cupboard
       B/C       Am
With a bottle of champagne
                      Em
And then, later, on a train

       B7               C
It was dark out, I was half-dead
D                          F
I saw a star fall into the sky
       E
Like a chunk of thrown coal
      C
As if god himself spat
                B/C
Like a cornered rat
      Am                         Em
I really want you to do this for me
         B7            C
Will you have one on me?
D                  F
It was dark; I was drunk and

Half-dead
E
And we slept, knocking heads
        C
Sitting up in the star-smoking air
          B/C         Am
Knocking heads like buoys
                   Em
Don't you worry for me!
          B7          C
Will you have one on me!
D                                    F
Meanwhile, I will raise my own glass
E
To how you made me fast
     C
And expendable
                         B/C
And I will drink to your excellent
 Am
Health
          Em
And your cruelty
          B7         C
Will you have one on me?
 D              F
--Helpless as a child,
              E
When you held me in your arms
       C
And I knew that no other
                 B  D  A  B
Could ever love me--

Oooh oooh ooh part

( B  D  A  B )

G7M                           A
From the courtyard, I floated in
     Bm
And watched it go down
A/F#m
Heard the cup drop

Thought, "Well
                F#m
That's why they keep them around."
     C#m7                  B
The blackguard sat hard, down
        A
With no head on him now
    D7M
And I felt so bad
        G7M
Cause I didn't know how
    F#/D    Em
To feel bad enough
             D
To make him proud

      D7                  D
Well daddy longlegs, are you?
D7                  D
Daddy longlegs, are you?
D7                      G7M
Daddy longlegs, are you proud?

( F#/D  Em )