Chords for Tom Lehrer: The Vatican Rag (concert live) (1965)

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[F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ Another big news story of the year concerned the [G] ecumenical council in Rome known as Vatican II. _
[E] _ _ _ _ Among the things they did _ in an attempt to make the church more commercial _ _ was _ to introduce the
vernacular into portions of the [N] mass to replace Latin and to widen somewhat the range of music
permissible in the liturgy.
But I feel that if they really want to sell the product _ in in _ _ this
secular age what they ought to do is to redo some of the liturgical music in popular song forms.
I
have a modest example here. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ It's called the Vatican rag.
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_ [G] First [G] you get down on your knees,
[C] fiddle with your rosaries, bow your head with great respect and [Db] genuflect genuflect [C] genuflect.
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_ _ _ _ Do whatever steps you [Cm] want if you have [A] cleared them with the [F] pontiff.
Everybody say his [D] own
Kyrie Eleison doing the Vatican rag. _ _
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[C] _ _ [Dm] Get in line in that processional, step into that small
[Dm] confessional.
They're the guy who's got religion.
I'll tell you if your sins [F] original.
If it is,
try playing it safer.
[Fm] Drink the wine and chew the [C] wafer.
Two, four, six, [Cm] eight, time [G] to transubstantiate.
So get down on your [Cm] knees, fiddle with your [G] rosaries, bow your head with great [C] respect and
genuflect genuflect genuflect.
Lay the cross on your abdomen when in Rome [A] do like a Roman.
[E] Ave Maria,
[A] gee it's good to see you.
[G] Get next time I got a sort of dramatic [D] and I do it.
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