Bb
Bring your own lampshade - somewhere there's a party
 Cm
Here, it's never-ending; can't remember when it started
 Bb
Pass around the lampshade. There'll be plenty enough room in jail

   Cm
If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever 
    C                                                         Bb
if being strong's your kind, then I need help here with this feather
    Gm                                       Eb
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
         Cm                     Bb
at the swingin' party down the line

 Bb
Pound the prairie pavement, losing proposition
 Cm
quittin' school and goin' to work and never goin' fishing
 Bb
water all around; I never learned how to swim, now

   Cm
If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever 
    C                                                         Bb
if being strong's your kind, then I need help here with this feather
    Gm                                       Eb
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
         Cm                     Bb    Gm
at the swingin' party down the line
         Cm                     Bb
at the swingin' party down the line

 Bb
Bring your own lampshade - somewhere there's a party
 Cm
Here, it's never-ending; can't remember when it started
 Bb
Pass around the lampshade. There'll be plenty enough room in jail

   Cm
If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever 
    C                                                              Bb
if being strong is what you want, then I need help here with this feather
    Gm                                       Eb
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
         Cm                     Bb    Gm
at the swingin' party down the line
         Cm                     Bb
at the swingin' party down the line