What Makes A Man Chords by Charles Aznavour

[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Em] My mom and I, [Am] we live [Em] alone.
A grand apartment is our home. _
In a fair [Am] home, towers.
_ I have to keep me company.
Two [A] cats, a dog, [Am] a parakeet.
[B] [F] Some [Em] plants and flowers.
_ I help my mother [Am] with the [Em] chores.
I wash, she dries, I do the floors.
[E] We [D] work [Am] together.
_ I shop and cook and sew a [F#] bit.
Though mom [Am] does too, I [C] must admit.
[Am] _
I [B] do it _ _ better.
[Em] At [F#] night I work in a strange bar.
[G] Impersonating [Em] every star.
I'm quite [Am] deceiving.
_ The customers come in with [F#] doubt.
And wonder what I'm all about.
But live [Em] believing.
_ I do a very [Am] special [Em] show.
Where I am nude from head to toe.
[G#] _
[E] After [D] _ [Am] stripteasing.
Each night the men look so [F#] surprised.
I change my sex before their [B] eyes.
Tell me if you [Em] can, what makes a man [Am] a _ man.
_ [Em] Around [Am] three o'clock or so I meet.
[Em] With friends to have a bite to eat.
And [D] conversation.
[Am] _
_ We talk and empty out our hearts.
On every subject from the arts.
[Bm] [Am] To [Bm] liberation.
_ [Em] _
_ We love to pull [F#] apart someone.
[Em] And spread some gossip just for fun.
[G#] [E] Or [C] start a rumor.
[Am] We let our hair down, so to speak.
And mock ourselves with tongue and cheek.
And [F#] inside _ [B]
humor.
So [Em] many [F#] times we [Em] have to pay.
For having fun and being gay.
_ It's not [Am] amusing. _
There's always those who spoil our [F#] games.
By finding fault and calling [Am] names.
[B] Always [F#] _ _ [Em] accusing.
They draw attention to [Am] themselves.
[Em] At the expense of someone else.
[E] It's so _ [D] [Am] confusing. _
Yet they make fun of how I [F#m] talk.
[F#] And imitate the way I [Em] walk.
Tell me if you can, what makes [E] a man [B] a [Am] man.
_ _ [Em] _ [Am] My masquerade comes to an [Em] end.
[G] When I go home to bed again.
_ [C] Alone and [Em] friendless.
[C] I close my eyes and think of [F#] him.
And fantasize what might have been.
_ [F#] My dreams are [G]
endless.
[Em] We love each other but it seems.
That love lives only in [E] my dreams.
It's so [D] _ _ [Am]
unsighted.
But in this life I must [F#] confess.
The [Am] search for love and happiness.
_ Is [Bm] _ _ [B] unrequited.
[Em] I [Am] ask myself what have [Bm] I got.
And [G] what I am and [A] [Bm] what I'm [Em] not.
What am I [Am] giving.
[D] _ [Am]
But answers come from those who [B] make.
The rules that [F#] some of us must [B] break.
Just to [F#] keep [Em] living.
_ I know my life is [Am] not a [Bm] crime.
[Em] I'm just a victim of my time.
[E] I stand [D] defenseless.
[Am] _ _ Nobody has the right to [F#m] be.
[F#] The judge of what is right for [B] me.
Tell me if [Em] you can, what [E] makes a [A] man a _ [Am] man.
A man.
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