And Tthey're Off chords by William Finn

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
 C majorC G+G C majorC G+G

Verse:
C majorC       G+G
Ponies in the sun
A minorAm         G+G
The race is soon beginning
C majorC             G+G
My father bet the family fortune
    A minorAm     G+G
On a sleek brown horse
A minorAm     E MajorE
My father had a hunch
FF
We gave up lunch
  DmDm      E MajorE   A minorAm
So Daddy could make a wager
C majorC     G+G
Ma would scoff
G+G
She would scoff
G+G
Hear her scoff

Chorus:
       C majorC
And they're off!
    A minorAm
(La la la la la)
        G+G
Yeah, they're off!
      FF
(La la la la la)
     C majorC
And they move in a herd
    A minorAm
Like a four letter word
       G+G
And they're off!
       E MajorE
(La la la la la)
     A minorAm G+G    FF  D MajorD
Tickets float to the ground
     C majorC       A minorAm
And the band starts to play
    G+G
As the horses go round
       C majorC   G+G
And they're off!

C majorC G+G

Verse:
C majorC       G+G
Mommy sat and cried
A minorAm       G+G
But Dad was unaffected
G+G
He said
  C majorC           G+G
"Have you ever had a better two minutes
    A minorAm      G+G
In the last three years?"
G+G
She said
 A minorAm      E MajorE
"But Joe, the dumb horse lost!"
E MajorE
He said
 FF          DmDm   E MajorE
"Sometimes joy has a terrible cost
  A minorAm    C majorC A minorAm
I know that"
     G+G
We would laugh
G+G
We would sneer
G+G
We would scoff

Chorus:
       C majorC
And they're off!
     A minorAm
(La la la la la)
     G+G
Yeah, they're off!
      FF
(La la la la la)
      C majorC
Mommy's biting his neck
      A minorAm
As they roll on the deck
     G+G
And they're off
     E MajorE
(La la la la la)
     A minorAm G+G     FF D MajorD
There is blood on the ground
     C majorC        A minorAm
And the band starts to play
     G+G
As the horses go round
And they're off!

Bridge:
G#G#
  Isn't life funny?
People lose money
     C minorCm
And have fun
G#G#
Betting, of course, is

Hell on the horses
     G+G
And on families where the betting is done
    G+G
It's a joke to believe someone's won

Verse:
 C majorC       G+G
All we did was fight
 A minorAm      G+G
Plus they discussed the weather
   C majorC           G+G
My father bet the family fortune
    A minorAm   G+G
Till it disappeared
  A minorAm    E MajorE
We also laughed a lot
 FF          E MajorE       A minorAm   D MajorD
That was a thing I often forgot to tell you
     G+G
But it's true
G+G
Yes, it's true
G+G
It is true

Chorus:
     C majorC
And he's off!
    A minorAm
(La la la la la)
     G+G
Daddy's off!
     FF
(La la la la la)
     C majorC
We get letters from Maine
      A minorAm
Where he tries to explain
  G+G
Why he's off
     E MajorE
(La la la la la)
     A minorAm G+G     FF D MajorD
What was lost was not found
     C majorC       A minorAm
And the band starts to play
     G+G
As the horses go round

Chorus:
       C majorC
And they're off!
              A minorAm
(I hear the bell at the starting gate)
     G+G
They are off!
               FF
(We're salivating as we're moving, moving down the track)
      C majorC
And they move in a herd
    A minorAm
Like a four letter word
    G+G
And they're off!
         E MajorE
(Coming down the stretch)
     A minorAm G+G     FF D MajorD
There is blood on the ground
     C majorC       A minorAm
And the band starts to play
     G+G
As the horses go round

Outro:
   A minorAm
And round and round
A minorAm
And round and round
A minorAm
And round and round
A minorAm
And round and round
A minorAm
And round and round
     G+G
And round and round
And round and round
      C majorC