Chords for Liz Ryan - "Have Some Madeira M'Dear"

_ _ _ _ That's a new song.
_ I thought, while we were on the team, excuse me for a sec, Dr.
Whittemis.
_ _ _ Do this.
This is just like magic trick.
_ It never works.
Now, _ _ close.
Come on the beam.
_ Let us move strictly.
_ [Ab] She _
[Eb] _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] _
[Eb] _ [F] _ [Eb] _ [Db] _ [Ab] was young.
She was fair.
She was new.
She was nice.
[Fm] She was pure.
[Bb] She was sweet [Eb] and tempting.
[Bbm] He was old and vile and a stranger to mice.
[Bb] He was baked, he was bad [Eb] and mean.
He [Ab] had slag in him.
[Db] They built her up to his flat.
[Bb] You see this [Eb] collection of stats.
[G] He [Abm] was kind and mild.
[Bbm] He was decent.
[Ab] He was not [F] out for cash.
[Bb] He was the god, [F] the wise [Eb] and the lost.
_ [Ab] _ [Db] Have [Eb] some [Ab] Madeira, madame.
It's really [F] much [Ebm] better than [Db] beer.
[Eb] _ [Bbm] I'm not [Eb] trying to tempt you.
[Ab] That wouldn't be [Eb] right.
[Gb] One should [Bb] not drink spirits [G] out of [Ebm] this time of night.
[Ab] Well, have [Eb] some Madeira, [Ab] madame.
It's terribly [F] better [Bbm] than beer.
[Eb] _
[Ab] I don't care if it's sherry.
[Db] One cannot waste out.
[Bb] A fort is a wine I [Eb] can well do without.
_ [Ab] [Abm] Besides, [Eb] it's a case of [Ab] [F] shakalas for gout.
[Bb] Have some [Eb] Madeira, [Ab] madame.
_ _ Of the lions, of the snake in the [Fm] grass.
Of the feet of the maiden [Eb] who talks.
[Bbm] She lowered her standards by raising her [F] glass.
Her [Bb] courage, her eyes, [Eb] but his hopes. _
[Ab] She sipped it. _ _ _ _ _
She drank it.
_ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Db] She blamed [F] it. _ _
[Db] She did.
[Bb] He slyly refilled it [Eb]
again.
[Ab] And he smiled [Bbm] as he secretly [Ab] cut [Gb] one [F] more notch
on [Bb] the butt of his gold [Eb]-handled cane.
_ [Ab] Have some [Eb] Madeira, [Ab] madame. _
I've brought a [Bm] small [Bbm] cask of it here.
[Eb] _
[Bbm] And [Eb] once it's been opened, you know it [Fm] won't keep.
[Bb] Do finish it off.
[Fm] It will help you to [Eb] sleep.
_ [Ab] Have some Madeira, madame.
It's really [B] much [Bbm] better than beer.
[Eb] _ [Ab] Now, if it were true, you [Db] would be wrong to say
that [Bb] a snake-eagle [D] jimmed [Bb] out one [Ebm] best part [Eb] for us to have.
[Ab] _
Besides, [Bbm] it implies [Cm] to [Gb] offend my [F] poet. _
[Db] [Bb] Have some [Eb] Madeira, [Ab] madame. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [F] _ [Bbm] _ Then [Ab] the flashed through her mind what her mother had said.
[Fm] With her [Bb] active hand of [Eb] her bed-breath.
_ _ [Bbm] My child, should you look on the wide world it's read,
Be [Bb] prepared for a fate [Fm] worse than death.
_ [Eb] _
[Fm] She let go the [Db] glass with a shrill little cry.
[Bb] Can't take her head up [Eb] to the floor. _
[Ab] When he said, [G] look, little coward, [Ab] she [F] needed no reply.
[Bb] Have some Madeira, madame.
I said, [Eb] no!
_ _ [Ab]
Have some Madeira, madame.
_ _ _ [Bm] _
[Bb] _ [Eb] The cry [Ab] that was full of [Bb] despair as she stopped me.
[Fm] _ I've been a cold [Eb] midnight hour.
[Abm] _ _ [Eb] _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] [Ab] I'd sleep [Bm] [Bbm] free in her [Eb] bed.
[Ab] Until the next [G] morning [Gb] she [Db] woke up in bed
[Bb] With a smile _ on her face [Eb] and a naked head. _
_ [B] _ [Ab] And a beard [Bbm] in [Fm] her ear that [Gb] [F] tickled and slid. _ _ _
[Bb] Have [Eb] some Madeira, [Ab] madame. _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _