Chords for Tom Lehrer: The Masochism Tango (studio solo) (1959)

_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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_ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
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_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [A] _ I [Dm] ache for the touch of [Gm] your lips, dear, But [C] much more for the touch of [F] your whips, dear.
[A] You can raise welts [Dm] like nobody else [A] As we dance to the [Db] masochism [D]
tango.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ Let our [Dm] love be a flame, [Gm] not an ember, Say [C] it's me that you want to _ [F] dismember.
_ _ [A] Blacken my eye, [Dm] set fire to [Gm] my tie As we [Db] dance to [G] the masochism [D] _ tango.
[A] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ At your [Gm] command, before you [F] hear I stand, My heart is in [Gm] my hand.
_ _ Ick, [E] it's here that I must [D] be.
My heart [Gm] entreats, [C] just hear those [F] savage beats, [Dm] And go put on your [Gm] cleats and [C] come and [F] trample me.
_ [Dm] _ _ [Db] _
[Dm] Your heart is hard as stone or [Gm] _
mahogany, [C] That's why I'm in such exquisite [F]
agony.
_ My [A] soul is on fire, it's [Dm] aflame [Gm] with desire, [A] Which is why I [G]
perspire when [D] we tango.
You [Eb] caught [D] [Bb] my nose _ _ in your left [Eb] castanet, _ love.
I can feel [A] the pain yet, love, every time I hear [Dm] drums. _ _ _
[Eb] And I envy [Bb] the _ rose [Bb] that you held in your [Eb] _
teeth, love.
_ With the thorns [A] underneath, love, _ sticking into your gums.
_ _ _ _ [D] Your [Dm] eyes cast a spell that [Gm] _ bewitches, [C] The last time I needed [F] twenty stitches.
_ [A] To sew up the gash that [Dm] you made with your lash As we dance to the [Db] masochism [D] tango.
Bash [Gm] in my brain [C] and make me scream with [F] pain, Then [Dm] kick me once [Gm] again and [Db] say we'll never part.
[D] _ [Gm] I know too [C] well I'm underneath [F] your spell, [Dm] So darling if [Gm] you smell [C] something burning [Dm] it's my heart.
Take _ your cigarette from its holder, _ [C] And burn your initials in my [F]
shoulder.
_ [A] _ Fracture my spine [Dm] and swear [Gm] that you're mine, As we [A] dance to [Ab] the _ [D] masochism tango.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
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[Eb] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Gm] _
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