Jerusalem Chords by Dan Bern

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_ _ _ [Ab] When I tell you that I love [Fm] you, don't test my love, [Bb] accept [Db] my love, [Ab] don't test [Db] my love,
cause maybe [Ab] I don't love you all that much. _ _ _ _
Don't ask what [Eb] kind of music [Cm] I'm gonna play [Db] tonight, [Ab] just stay a while, here for yourself
a while, and if you must put [Eb] me in a box, [Ab] make sure it's a big box, with lots of windows,
and a door to walk [Db] through, and a [Ab] nice hot chimney, so we can burn, [Eb] burn, burn everything
that we don't like [Ab] and watch the ashes fly up to heaven, maybe all the way to India,
I'd [Eb] like that. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ All the [Eb] ancient kings [Ab] came to my door, they said, do you wanna be an ancient [Eb] king too?
I said, oh [Ab] yes, very much, but I think my timing's wrong, they said, time is relative,
or did you misread Einstein?
I said, do you really mean it?
They said, what do you think we come here for?
Our goddamn health or something? _
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[Eb] Everybody's waiting for the [Db] messiah, [Ab] Jews are waiting, Christians are waiting, also
the Muslims, it's like everybody's waiting, they've been waiting a long time, I know how
I hate to wait, like even for a bus or something, an important phone call, so I can just imagine
how darned impatient everybody must be getting, so I think it's time now, time to reveal myself,
I am the messiah, I am the [Db] messiah, _ _ _ _ _ yes I [Ab] think you heard me right, I am the messiah,
I was gonna wait till next year, build up the suspense a [Db] little, make it a [Ab] really big
surprise, but I cannot resist, it's like when you got a really big secret, you're just bursting
to tell someone, it was sort of like that with this, and now that I've told you, I [Ab] feel
this great weight lifted, Dr.
Nussbaum was [Db] right, [Ab] he's my therapist, [Db] he said get [Ab] it out
in the _ open.
_ _ I _ _ spent ten [Eb] whole days [Ab] in Jerusalem, _ _ Jerusalem, _ sweet Jerusalem, and all I ate was olives,
nothing but olives, mountains of olives, it was a good ten days, I like olives, I like
you too, so when I tell [Eb] you that I love [Ab] you, don't test [Db] my love, [Ab] accept my love, don't
test my [Db] love, cause baby, [Ab] I don't [Eb] love you all [Ab] that _ much. _ _ _ _ _ _