And They're Off chords by William Finn

Intro:
 C G C G

Verse:
C              G
Ponies in the sun
Am                  G
The race is soon beginning
C                         G
My father bet the family fortune
       Am          G
On a sleek brown horse
Am          E
My father had a hunch
F
We gave up lunch
    Dm           E      Am
So Daddy could make a wager
C          G
Ma would scoff
G

She would scoff
G
Hear her scoff

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

C G

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Outro:
      Am
And round and round
Am
And round and round
Am
And round and round
Am
And round and round
Am
And round and round
         G
And round and round
And round and round
            C