Chords for Eartha Kitt - 'I Want To Be Evil' & Emotional Interview, Part 1

with the odd slide thrown in.
But as she proudly sang in Stephen Sondheim's Follies,
and is the title of her book, I'm Still Here.
And to prove that she hasn't changed her wicked ways,
one I owe her with I Wanna Be Evil at a Kit. _ _
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_ [F] I've posed for pictures [Gm] with ivory [C] soap.
_ _ _ I've petted stray dogs and shied clear of dope.
_ _ My [Gm] smile is brilliant.
_ _ [C] My glance is tender. _
_ [G] But I'm noted [B] most _ _ for my [C] _ _ unspoiled gender. _
_ _ I've [F] been made Miss Rheingold, [Gm] though I never touch [C] beer.
_ [Gm] And I'm the person [C] to whom they say,
you're sweet, my dear. _
The [Gm] only [Bbm] etchings I've seen [Am] have been behind glass.
[D] _ _ And [G] the closest I've been to a bar was at Ballet [C] Class. _ _
[D] _ _ Prim and proper.
_ The [G] girl who's [C] never [Dm] been kissed. _ _
[Gm] _ Well, I'm tired of being [Db] pure.
_ And [C] not [Bb] chaste.
[B] _ [Bb] _ [C] [Gm] Like [Eb] something that [Gm] seeks a lover's love.
[Db] I wanna go [Ab] to the devil.
[F] I wanna be evil.
[Ebm] _ [Dbm] [C] I wanna [B] spit tacks.
[G]
[F] I [C] wanna be evil.
And [F] cheat on jacks.
[C] _ I wanna [Fm] be [Ebm] wicked.
_ [Db] [Fm] I wanna tell [G] lies.
I wanna [E] be mean.
[C]
And throw [Fm] mud [C] pies.
[Fm] I want to wake [Db] up [Eb] in the morning [Ab] with that dark brown [Db] taste.
I wanna see some disobey in my [C] face.
[F] I wanna be [Cm] evil.
_ I wanna [E] be [F] mad.
_ But [E] more than [Db] that,
[C] I wanna [Fm] be [Bb] bad.
[Gb] I wanna be evil.
[C] And the [Am] trumping [Gb] ace.
_ [B] Just to [D] [B] see _ [Ebm] my partner's face.
I wanna be nasty.
[C] [Eb] I [A] wanna be cruel.
[Ebm] _ [F] [Eb] I [Bm] wanna be daring.
_ [G] I [Ebm] wanna shoot pool.
_ [Abm] And in the theater, _
[Abm] I [Gb] want to [Db] change [Gb] my seat.
[B]
Just so I can step on _ _ [Bb] everybody's feet.
[Ab] I wanna be evil.
_ [Bb] I wanna [Gb] hurt flies.
[Fm] _ I wanna [Bb] sing [B] [Bbm] songs like the guy who [B] cries.
I wanna be [Gb] horrid.
I wanna drink _ booze.
And [B] whatever I've [Bb] got,
[F] I'm eager to [Eb] _ lose. _
_ [Cm] I [G] wanna be [Abm] _ evil.
_ [F] _ [B] _ [Abm] I wanna [Ebm] be evil.
Just as mean.
_ _ [Fm] Just as [Gb]
[Ebm] mean [B] and evil _ _ as _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[Ebm] me.
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
[E] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Hello, Mr.
Douglas.
[Cm] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [Ab] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
You walked through it there, didn't you?
Oh, yes, thank you, darling.
I brought it for you. Thank you. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It suits, I wanna be evil.
Wow.
Oh, I love the way, I wish I could do that.
Do you have to have, _ it's a sophisticated gargle, isn't it?
You're always perceived as a wicked female, aren't you?
You've always encouraged that image.
I mean, you like that image.
I don't really think I really thought of it.
I think that when I started to [E] sing songs like that,
it was RCA who pushed those particular kind of songs out on the public,
so that's how I eventually came.
Because [D] you're not a wicked woman.
_ [E] No, I'm not, but who's gonna believe [N] me?
Nobody.
Nobody, no, but reading your book, you know,
_ _ _ your name, you've associated with people like Porfirio Rubirosa,
one of the great lovers of all time,
with Orson Welles, who's not known for being quiet,
and yet, they never laid a glove on you, did they?
No, that's right.
_ I was very young, and they had tremendous respect for a very young girl.
_ Well, that's nice, but it's not that you're, because you see, as you say,
you seem to be wicked, and you're not a tease, are you?
Oh, dear. _ _ _
_ No, there you are, you see.
There you are, you're doing it now.
You're doing it.
You see now.
Well, Mr.
Morgan, tell me how wicked do they?
Well, I was just thinking, when the program is over,
I might be encouraged by this to rush into your dressing room
and fling myself upon you, and you'd say,
you close the door on my face, because that's what you do.
You're a tease.
You've never tried it, so I don't know if I would do it.
I'll be honest, do you think you're a tease?
Yes.
_ And you want to know something, in all honesty.
You're one of the few people who accept me teasing them.
Why, what happens?
I don't know, but they think that you are, I don't know, inhibited or something.
And I never found that.
No, I've never found that.
I never found that, Mr.
Morgan.
I never found you to be inhibited at all.
Oh, please.
Well.
Now I'm waiting for you to open the door after the show.
Right, well, look, thank you all for coming. _
_ _ _ Now, _ _ _ there's the two sides of Eartha Kitt, if I may say,
from the book, it seems. _ _ _ _ _ _ _