What Do You Want

Intro: [bass synth]

       Bb       Bb       Bb      
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A|-1h3-3-3--1h3-3-3--1h3-1h3-----
E|---------------------------1h3-
  F
E|-----| 
B|-----| 
G|-----| 
D|-----| 
A|-----| 
E|1h3--| 


       [acoustic, doubled on piano]
                                  
E|-3-----------------------------
B|---6-4-3---6-4-3-----4-3-------
G|-----------------5-------5-3---
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     Cm
E|-----------| 
B|3----------| 
G|--5-3------| 
D|------6-5--| 
A|-----------| 
E|-----------| 

Verse 1:

   Cm                   F
      What do want from life?
         G#                  
      To kidnap an heiress or 
 G
threaten her with a knife
   Cm                   F
      What do want from life?
         G#               G
      To get cable TV and watch it 
every night


Chorus 1: [faster, honky tonk]

      Cm                   F
      There you'll sit - a lump in 
your chair
                   G#              
      Where do you sleep and what 
      G                     F
do you wear when you're sleeping.


Verse 2: [original tempo]

   Cm                   F
      What do want from life?
         G#             G
      An Indian Guru to show you the
 inner light
   Cm                   F
      What do want from life?
        G#                         
      A meaningless love affair 
    G                         A->Bb
with a girl that you met tonight


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Bridge 1: [stately]

   Bb                              F
                   [bkgrnd]
      How can you tell when you're 
doin' all right?   (do-do-do-do)
                C                  
      Does your bank account swell 
              G            G->A->Bb
while you're dreaming at night?
   Bb                             
      How do you know when you're 
F
really in love?     (do-do-do-do)
         C                        
      Do violins play when you're 
C#                           G#
touching the one that you're loving?
      
A                G#
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....


Verse 3: [modulates up a tone]

   C#m                  F#
      What do want from life?  (what
 do you want from life)
      A                   G#
      Someone to love and somebody 
you can trust
   C#m                  F#
      What do want from life?  (what
 do you want from life)
         A                         
      To try and be happy while you
 G#
 do the nasty things you must


  [Bass Synth Interlude, funky, over
 C#]

  [Wah Guitar solo over C#]


   C#m                  F#    
      What do want from life ?  
   A                     G#
(what do you want from life ?)
   C#m                  F#    
      What do want from life ?  
   A                     G#
(what C  you WANT from LIFE ?)


   [Spoken faster & faster & faster 
over changes. Alternate
    spoken lines between two 
"voices", huckster style.]

      Well, you can't have THAT - 
BUT if you're an American
      Citizen you AD  intitled to:
    - a heated kidney shaped pool
    - a microwave oven (don't watch 
the food cook)
    - a DynaGym (i'll personally 
demonstrate it in the privacy
                 of your own home)
    - a king-size Titanic unsinkable
 Molly Brown waterbed with
      Polybendum
    - a fool-proof plan and an 
air-tight alibi
    - Real Simulated Indian Jewelery
    - a Gucci Shoe Tree
    - a year's supply of 
anti-biotics
    - a personally autographed 
picture of Randy Mantooth (*)
        and Bob Dylan's new unlisted
 phone number
    - a beautifully restored 3rd 
reich swizzle stick
    - RoseMary's Baby!
    - a dream date, in kneepads, 
with Paul Williams
    - a new Matador, a new Mastedon,
 a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego
    - a Merc Montclair,
    - a Mark 4, a Meteor, a 
Mercedes, an MG or a Malibu
    - a Mork Moriarti, a Maserati, a
 Mack Truck
    - a Mazda, a new Monza, or a 
Moped
    - a Winnibago, hell, a herd o' 
Winnibagos, we're givin' 'em away!
    - or, how 'bout a McCullough 
Chain saw         [vocal near manic]
    - a Las Vegas wedding, a Mexican
 divorce       [band stops]
    - a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee
 pot           [descending drums]
      or, a Baby's arm holding an 
apple.           [end cold]