Chords with lyrics
Key: D
Note: the Dadd(b5) is a transitional chord that is played 1,2,2,0 on ukulele
🎸 Verse:
G C D G C D
Something fam-il-iar, something pe-cul-iar
G C F D7
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
G C D G C D
Something ap-peal-ing, something ap-pal-ling
G C F D7
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
🎸 Chorus:
G B
Nothing with kings
nothing with crowns
F G Am C D7
Bring on the lov-ers, liars and clowns
G C D G C D
Old sit-uat-ions, new compli-cat-ions
G D#
Nothing por-tentous or po-lite
Am7 D G
Tragedy tomorrow, comedy to-night
🎸 Verse:
G C D G C D
Something con-vul-sive, something re-pul-sive
G C F D7
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
G C D G C D
Something aes-thet-ic, something fre-net-ic
G C F D7
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
🎸 Chorus:
G B
Nothing with gods, nothing with fate
F G Am C D7
Weighty af-fairs will just have to wait
G C D G C D
Nothing that's for-mal, nothing that's nor-mal
G D#
No reci-tations to re-cite
Am7 D G
Open up the curtain, comedy to-night
🎸 Verse:
G C D G C D
Something fam-il-iar, something pe-cul-iar
G C F D7
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
G C D G C D
Something that's gaudy, something that's bawdy
G C F D7
Something for everybody: comedy tonight
🎸 Chorus:
G B
Nothing that's grim, nothing that's Greek.
F G Am C D7
She plays Medea later this week.
G C D G C D
Stunning surprises! Cunning disguises
G D#
Hundreds of actors out of sight
🎸 Bridge:
Am7 D
Pantaloons and tunics
Am7 D
Courtesans and eunuchs
Am7 D
Funerals and chases
Am7 D
Baritones and basses
Am7
Panderers, philanderers
D
Cupidity, timidity
D7
Mistakes, fakes, rhymes, crimes
D Dsus4 Daddb5 D
Tumblers, grumblers, bumblers, fumblers!
🎸 Chorus:
Ab C
No royal curse, no Trojan horse
Gb Bbm Db Eb7
And there's a happy ending, of course!
Ab Db Eb Ab Db Eb
Goodness and badness, man in his madness
Ab E
This time it all turns out all right!
Bbm7 Eb
Tragedy tomorrow!
Eb Ebsus4
Comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy
Eb6 Eb7
Comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy
Eb7sus Ab
Comedy tonight!