A Summer In Ohio chords by Jason Robert Brown

Chords with lyrics

Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 Bb6Bb6 Bb majorBb Cm7Cm7 F7F7 Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 Bb6Bb6 Bb majorBb Cm7Cm7 F7F7 Eb/GEb/G F7F7

CATHY:
Bbmaj7Bbmaj7     Bb6Bb6  Bbmaj7Bbmaj7  Bb6Bb6
I could have a mansion on a hill
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7        Fm7Fm7 Bb7Bb7
I could lease a villa in Seville
    Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
But it wouldn't be as nice
   Dm7Dm7    G7G7
As a summer in Ohio
    Cm7Cm7 Bb majorBb C majorC   C7C7    F7F7
With a gay--- midget named Karl
         Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 Bb6Bb6 Bb majorBb Cmin7 F7F7 Eb MajorEb F7/A
Playing Tevye and Porgy

 Bbmaj7Bbmaj7    Bb6Bb6
I could wander Paris after dark
 Ebmaj7Ebmaj7           Fm7Fm7   Bb7Bb7
Take a carriage ride through Central Park
    Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
But it wouldn't be as nice
   Dm7Dm7    G7G7
As a summer in Ohio
     Cm7Cm7  Bb/DBb/D C/Eb
Where I'm sharing a  room
C7/EC7/E  F7F7            Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 Bb6Bb6
With a "former" stripper and her snake:

Wayne

E minor 7Em7      A7A7            D6D6  Dmaj7Dmaj7
I could have a satchel full of dollar bills
 D6D6        Dmaj7Dmaj7   Eb7Eb7
Cures for all the nation's ills
 Ab13Ab13         Dbmaj7Dbmaj7 Db6Db6 Dbmaj7Dbmaj7 Db6Db6
Pills to make a lion purr;
Gm7Gm7      C7C7            Fmaj7Fmaj7
I could be in line to be the British Queen
        F6F6   Cm7Cm7
Look like I was seventeen
 Gb7Gb7           F7F7
Still I'm certain I'd prefer

To be going slowly batty
E/F#E/F#
Forty miles east of Cincinnati

 Bbmaj7Bbmaj7     Bb6Bb6   Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
I could shove an ice pick in my eye
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7           Fmin7 Bb7Bb7
I could eat some fish from last July
    Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
But it wouldn't be as awful
   Dm7Dm7    G7G7
As a summer in Ohio
      Cmin7    C7C7
Without cable, hot water

Vietnamese food
  Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 Bb6Bb6 Bb majorBb Cmin F7F7 Bb6Bb6
Or you

           Ab/Bb
I saw your book at a Borders in Kentucky
Bb7Bb7           Ebmaj7/Bb
Under a sign that said "New and Recommended"
Eb6/Bb         Gb/Ab         Ab13Ab13
I stole a look at your picture on the inside sleeve
           Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 Bb7Bb7 Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 Bb6Bb6
And then I couldn't leave

Dbmaj7Dbmaj7
Richard, who was with me, got uncharacteristically quiet
Abmaj7Abmaj7
Then he said, "All things considered, I guess you don't have to buy it."
   Dm7Dm7             G7G7      Ab7Ab7 Ab13Ab13
So I smiled like Mona Lisa and I lay my Visa down!
 Dbmaj7Dbmaj7
He wants me, he wants me
  Abmaj7Abmaj7
But he ain't gonna get me!
   Dm7Dm7        G7G7
I've found my guiding light,
  DbDb         AbAb
I tell the stars each night:
      BbM7Bbm7 AbAb     BbM7Bbm7 AbAb
"Look at me!   Look at him!
BbM7Bbm7   AbAb
Son-of-a-b**ch!
 Db6Db6       AbAb    Bb7susBb7sus
I guess I'm doing something right!
            CsusCsus Csus/Bb Csus/A
I finally got something right!"

Gm7Gm7      C7C7           Fmaj7Fmaj7
No, it's not Nirvana, but it's on the way
F6F6    Fmaj7Fmaj7    F6F6
I play "Anita" at the matinee
     Gb7Gb7         F7F7
Then I'll get on my knees and pray

I can state in my next bio:
E/F#E/F#
I'm never gonna go back to Ohio!

BMaj7Bmaj7  B6B6        BMaj7Bmaj7   F7F7
I could chew on tin foil for a spell!
EMaj13Emaj13
I could get a root can*l in Hell
FF   EMaj13Emaj13
But it wouldn't be as swell
    D#7sus   D#7D#7  G#m7G#m7 C#7C#7
As this summer is gonna be!
     E6E6       FF
Cause the torture is just exquisite
     B6B6          G#min
While I'm waiting for you to visit
  B6/F#         Bmaj7/F#           Fm7Fm7 E7E7 D#9D#9
So hurry up, schmuck, get unstuck and get on the scene!
D MajorD
Love
     C#7C#7      D MajorD    B6/D#
The Midget, the Stripper, Wayne the Snake
     C#min9      F#F#
And Mrs. Jamie Wellerstein!
 BB   B/D#B/D# E MajorE FF B/F# C majorC BB
That's me!