Chords with lyrics
Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)
Intro:
Eb Bb
In the city of drag queens,
Eb Bb
there's a fine line between being shady and being a lady.
Eb
This is Penny, which will she choose?
Verse 1:
Bb
I just got off the bus
Eb Bb
I don't drink or eat or cuss
Ab Bb Gm Cm
You're new in town it's time to knuckle down
Fm Bb
Start swimming to the top before you drown
Verse 2:
Bb
Who are you?
Eb Db
We are the pageant queens (oh, fancy)
Eb Db Ab
We're elegant machines in gowns
Bb Gm Cm
We strut we don't need corny smut (What?)
Fm Bb
Let's hold back and see which way she leans
Verse 3:
Bb
Who are you?
Eb Db
We are the comedy queens (oh, cute)
Eb Db
Humour always justifies the means
Ab Bb
While she's there telling a joke (look!)
Gm Cm
I'm right behind you poke (oh!)
Fm Bb
So don't listen to them 'cause there all full of beans (literally!)
Verse 4:
N.C
Who's that? (gasp) Wait!
Cm
She's the shady queen horrid queen
Cm
No one wants to see her
Fm
On her own all alone
Fm
No one wants to be her
G7
Listen up pretty pup
G7 Cm
She's on her way to six feet underground
Cm
Yes, and nothing nice
Cm
Nothing good ever goes her way, so -
Fm
Miss "Off the Bus"
Fm
Stick with us
Fm
Even Ru would say so
G
Who? (Gasp) Rupaul! Oh!
Cm
Turn around!
Ab
We are the better queens
Eb Bb
The safer queens, the lighter queens
Cm Ab
The brighter queens, the wiser queens
Eb Bb
Advisor queens, the ones who you should stick with
Verse 5:
N.C
Penny, you really wanna be a star?
N.C
Yeah I do!
N.C
No! Don't do it! Don't go!
N.C
No, girl. She's got testicles! I've seen them!
N.C
She's a man with one eye no!
N.C
Oh, we're losing her!
Ebm B
There's a hole in your heart
Db Ebm
There'a place in your soul
B
A passion so strong
Db
It makes your blood boil
Ebm B
All your dreams come alive
Db Ebm
All your wishes will grow
B Db
If you take a swig of this fish oil
Ebm B Db
Drink for me! (Oh, I'd really like to but I shouldn't I-)
Ebm B Db
Drink for me! (But I do want to be a big, big star)
Ebm B Db
Drink for me! (Don't do it! Don't do it!)
Ebm B Db
Drink for me! (You'll lose it! You'll lose it!)
B Abm
Well I'm gonna be the greatest star
B
And nothing and no one's gonna keep me down
Db
And you, and you, and all of you
Eb
I'll make you love me
Ebm
Don't do it! Don't do it!
Eb
Oh I can't get it open. Here!
Eb
Don't do it! Don't do it!
Ebm Eb
Watch me be your star
Verse 6:
N.C
Thanks to fish oil, our good little penny became one bad penny.
N.C
But, she got her fame
Cm Fm Ab
Because I'm the biggest star and I'm going far
Eb C
just a miracle in front of you
Fm Bb
Oh, and if you don't believe I will show you
Bbm
I'll teach you I'll school you I'll beat you
Bb
And punch you and crunch you I'll take you and make you thank me
Eb
When you love me
N.C Gbm
That's how you do it back rolls
Db Gbm Db Gbm
Did you see what she said to me! Back rolls! heard it!
Db Gbm
Can you believe, can you believe she even said that
Db Gbm
yes she really did oh yes she really, really went there
Db Gbm
Well I'm not gonna stick around and be a part of her show
Db Gbm
but you have to! Girl, the paycheck!
Db
Oh, right mmhmm.
Verse 7:
D A
No, I'll never love anyone else like I love myself
D A
Oh no, no, no, no I'll never love anyone else
Db
Ai dios mio! She's going down! too much fish oil!
Eb F
Now's our chance!
Bb
Watch us rise to the top 'cause we're the fresh fish on the scene
Gb
We're the new girls in town we're stepping right over this queen
Bbm
She's been throwing some shade and now we don't give a damn
Ab Gm Gb F
Take away her fish oil and there ain't nothing left there, man. Woo!
Bbm Fm Gb Bbm Fm Gb
Center stage another chapter time to turn the page
Bbm Fm Gb
And finally I'm the star no I'm the star!
Bbm Fm Gb Fm F
No, I'm the star! no girl! (mumbled fighting)
Verse 8:
N.C
Oh the shade the shade of it all
Bb F
Look at yourself shady ladies
Ab Eb
you should be ashamed of what you've become oh,
Bb F G
I never thought that you would do this
Cm Eb F Bb
so let me remind you of just one thing
Eb Gm F Dm
Take each other's hands and come together cause
Eb Gm F Dm Eb Gm F Dm
We are each other's family all 2 million 603 thousand 40 sisters
Ab Eb Bb C
This is our land and we are the queens
F Am G Em
Time to take a stand and come together (we come together) cause
F Am G C
We are each other's family (we're all family) all
F Am G C
2 million 603 thousand 40 sisters (many queens)
Bb F Ab
This is our land and we are the queens
Bb
So even if you're a pageant queen or a comedy queen
Ab Bb
or a fishy queen a shady queen or just a big damn girl
C
We are a family
C
Back rolls!