Gardenia

E5

Emaj7                    D#m      
I kinda like the way you dot your 
 A
"J"s
     C#m   G#m    C#m      G#m
With giant circles    of naïveté
    C#m     G#m     E    
The kind of circles include 
   A    B
everything
Emaj7                           
Don't mean to damn you with the 
D#m      A
faintest praise
     C#m    G#m    C#m        
It's just a symptom    of the blithe
G#m
 age
C#m    G#m       E        A   B
Walter Lippmann, he would be amazed.
G#m                     F#m
So you've got some curb appeal
G#m                             
But can you cook a three course 
F#m
meal?
G#m                       F#m    
Or are you just a present waiting
                     B
 to be opened up and parceled out 
again? Hey!

Interlude B riff:
E|-4-2-0-4-2-0-| etc.----| 
B|---------------------|   

Continues after the ad
A   G#m   F#m   E
You are a gardenia, pressed
A      G#m      F#m     B
in the campaign journal in the
A        G#m   F#m E
rucksack of an Afrikaner
A    G#m      F#m    B
candidate for mild reform.

Emaj7                      D#m    A
It's like we're at a Ponzi scam-inar
        C#m     G#m  C#m          
There's no escaping      without a
 G#m
 door prize
C#m         G#m   E      A      
They're operating at significant 
 B
loss.
Emaj7                    D#m     
And now the way that you watch 
   A
your weight,
C#m     G#m      C#m          
Richard Avedon,       Richard 
G#m      C#m
Avedon would,
        G#m    E         A    B
Richard Avedon would surely approve.
G#m                     F#m
So much for your curb appeal.
G#m                          F#m
So much for the three course meals.
G#m                       F#m    
'Cause I am not a present waiting
                     B
 to be opened up and parceled out 
again. Hey!

<B riff>

A   G#m     F#m     E
The torture of the Van Wyk
A     G#m     F#m  B
Expressway at 5  p.m. on
A      G#m       F#m    E
Friday gives you some idea of
A     G#m     F#m      B
how rejection makes me feel.
A        G#m   F#m    E     A  
Well you are a gardenia,
G#m  F#m  B

A   G#m   F#m   E     A  G#m  
You are a gardenia.
F#m  B       E