Chords for Charles Aznavour - What makes a man a man (1982)

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_ _ [A] _ _ _ [A] _ [D] My mom and I, we live alone.
[Dm] _ Different apartments are our home. _
In the fair, [Gm] home towers.
_ _ _ I have to keep me company to cats, [A] a dog, a pair of keys. _ _
Some plants [Dm] and flowers.
_ _ _ I help my mother with the [E] chores.
I [Dm] wash, dry, do the floors. _ _
We work [Gm] together.
_ _ _ I shop and cook and [D] serve it.
[Gm] Though mom does too, I must admit, [Bb] I do [A] it better.
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At night I work in a [Dm] strange bar impersonating every star. _
I'm quite [Gm] deceiving.
_ _ The customers come in with [A] doubt and wonder what I'm all about. _
But leave [Dm] believing.
_ _ I do a very special show where I interview from head to toe. _ _ _
I have to [G] strip easy.
_ [Gm] Each night the men look so surprised.
[Em] I change my sex before their [Dm] eyes.
Tell me if you can what makes [D] a man [A] a man.
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_ [D] _ [Dm] Around three o'clock or so I meet with friends to have a bite to eat.
_ _ And conversation.
[D] _ [Gm] _ We talk and empty out our hearts on every subject from the [A] arts to liberation.
[Dm] _ _ We love to put apart someone and spread some gossip just for fun.
Or start [Gm] a rumor.
_ We let our hair down so [D] to speak and [E] mug us every tongue and cheek.
And [Bb] _
inside [Am] humor.
[Gm] _ _ So many times we have [A] to pay [Dm] for having fun and being gay.
_ It's not [Gm] amusing.
_ _ There's always those who spoil our games by finding fault and calling [A] names.
[Ab] Always [D] accusing.
[Dm] _ _ They draw attention to themselves at the expense of someone else.
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_ [G] _ It's not [Gm] amusing.
Yet they make fun of how I talk [Em] and imitate the way I [Dm] walk.
Tell me if you can what [D] makes a man [A] a [G] man. _
My [Dm] masquerade comes to an [Em] end _ [F] when I go home to bed [Dm] again.
_ Alone and [Gm] friendless.
_ I close my eyes and think of him and fantasize what might have been.
_ My dreams are endless.
_ We love each other but it seems the love lives only in my dreams.
_ _ _ [D] It's so one [G]-sided.
_ _ [Gm] But in this life I must confess.
The search [Gm] for love and happiness _ _ [Bb] is [Dm] unrequited.
_ [A] _ I ask myself what have I got in what I am and what I'm not.
_ _ _ [Dm] What am I giving?
[Gm] _ But answers come from those who make the rules that some of us must break.
_ [A] _ Just to keep living.
[Dm] _ _ I know my life is not a crime.
[E] I'm just a victim of my [Dm] time.
_ _ [D] I stand [Gm] defenseless.
_ _ Nobody has the right to be the [E] judge of what is right for me.
[Dm] They need you, Jan, what makes a [D] man [A] a [Gm] man. _
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