Onion Soup

INTRO:
F C Bb Am
F C Bb
F C Bb Am
F C Bb
F C Bb Am
F C Bb


VERSE:
F   C         Bb Am
  Thin and unshaved,
F   C           Bb
  Drunk and mysterious
F C            Bb Am
    Oh, I must sa-ay
 F    C       Bb
Lifestyle is curious


BDA K:
 Am                         Dm
With a little touch of the sniffles
 Bb          F
And filthy socks
 Am               Dm
Gnawed, crumbled fingernails
Bb                       C
  Never doing tomahawk chops


VERSE:
F C        Bb Am
   A flaky he-ad
F  C           Bb
  Dandruff is distinguished
F C           Bb Am
   Lacquer is re-d
 F C          Bb
Va-in is the varnish


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BDA K:
Am                Dm
  What is at the root of this
 Bb                  F
She'll say, whatcha got
 Am                Dm
What participle do you possess
 Bb                       C  Bb  C
She'll say, which I have not


VERSE:
F C             Bb Am
   One blustery da-ay
F        C
We rode out
        Bb
To the Meadowlands
F    C            Bb Am
 We saw and were ama-zed
      F         C         Bb
Then hauled it back into town again


BDA K:
Am                   Dm
   Mississippi is a mess sometimes
Bb                    F
And not only when it rains
     Am                       
How come you went back to that 
 Dm
malaria island
       Bb                   C     
'Cause our friendship is strained
Bb  C



INSTRUMENTAL:
F C Bb Am
F C Bb
F C Bb Am
F C Bb


VERSE:
F C                Bb
   Those were the days
      F       C     Bb
When you were so cosmopolitan
F C               Bb Am
    These are the da-ys
    F        C         Bb
My letters they're so maudlin


BDA K:
Am                       Dm
I wrote you an eloquent postcard 
once
            Bb                   F
About this most exquisite onion soup
Am                     Dm
But of course I never mailed it 
though
               Bb                C
'Cause it was your turn in the 
    Bb  C   F
loop, loop oh ah


VERSE:
  C             Bb
Those were the days
      F       C     Bb
When you were so cosmopolitan
F C               Bb Am
    These are the da-ys
    F        C                
My letters they're increasingly 
   Bb     Bb
maudlin