Genius Chords by Warren Zevon

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[Bb] _ _ [D] _ [Dm] I've bought a bitter pot [C] of Genesee Quark. _ _
_ [G] _ [Dm] _ Guess what I'm stirring it for [C] the monkeys paw. _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ Since I saw you [A] coming out of my barber shop, _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Dm] In that skimpy [Am] little halter top. _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ [Dm] Did you light the candles? _
[C] Did you put on kind of [Dm] blue? _
_ _ He's got Ivy League [C] voodoo on him too. _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ He thinks he'll be alright, [A] but he doesn't know for sure. _
_ [D] Like every other _ undied [Am] at Copeland Spirit [C] Road. _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ Mata Hari had a [C] house in France, _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ Where she worked on all her [Am] secret [C] plans. _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ And in the farm [Gm] for [A] her sight unseen,
_ She was [D] a _ genius.
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[Dm] There's a face in [D] every window,
[C] Of the songwriters neighborhood. _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] Everybody's your best friend,
[C] And you're doing well, I mean [Bb] good.
_ _ Oh, and who lived next door [A] when you were young and poor, _
[Dm] Grew up to be a _ _ [Am] backstabbing entrepreneur. _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ Albert Einstein was [C] a ladies man, _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ While he was working [C]
on his universal plan. _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ He was making out like [A] Charlie Sheen,
_ He was [D] a genius.
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_ [Bb] _ _ [Dm] And you're [Bb] dropping, and [A] you stake your _ [G] claim, _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ On a VIP [F] who could make you lame. _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ You lashed on to him [A] and I became,
Minor _
[Dm] _ _ inconvenience. _ _ _ _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ Your protege [A] don't care about art,
_ [Dm] _
_ _ But I'm the one who always [F] told [Cm] you you were smart.
_ [F] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ Woke my heart in [A] dismay,
The _ _ med [Dm] took genius. _ _ _ _
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] Why ever make a handsome man,
_ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ Guess what I never liked the [C] way he cut your hair.
_ [G] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ If you like the [Bb] way he [A] turned your hair, _ _ _
[Dm] There's nothing I can do or say,
[Am] I haven't done or [C] said. _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ Everybody _ needs a [C] place to stay, _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ And a [Dm] method for [C] their schemes and schemes.
[F] If _
_ [Bb] _ _ I could only get my [A] record clean,
_ I'd be a [Dm] _ genius. _ _ _ _
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