Chords for Allan Sherman's Most Unusual Play (1/6/66)

_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] Trying to be elegant.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, _ here's another fellow we're glad to have back with us again.
I'm sure you all know him.
Real nice guy and a big talent.
Alan Sherman! _
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Who's [G] that bright, hot, [A] yesterday?
Who's that future star of [C] Broadway?
They're [Am] presenting him right now.
[A] Alan!
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_ [Am] _ A-L-A-N!
Alan, [D] baby!
_ [Am] Take a bow! _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _
It's a most [C] unusual [D] play.
[G] Feel like throwing [E] my tickets [C] away.
[D]
Cause [G] the boy gets [Am] the boy and [Bb] the girl [G] gets the girl.
[Bm] And it's [Em] way too far [A] off Broadway.
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[G] It's a most [C] unusual [D] plot.
[G] Which I've [D] either blocked out [C] or forgot.
[D] I [G] don't know [Am] what it means, but [Bbm] they all wear [G] blue [Am] jeans.
And they [D] scratch themselves [G] quite a lot.
_ [Dm] There's no scenery.
[A] _ There's no lighting.
[Dm] There's no [G] costumes.
Oh, what art.
[Am] _ [Em] If there only [A]
were no house lights.
I would sneak [D] up the [Am] island depart.
[D] _ There's a [E] most unusual [D] scene.
Where this man [B] dates this Xerox machine.
[D] So [G] his girlfriend [Am] gets mad and she [Bm] murders the cat.
To the tune [Em] of Begin the [A] Beguine.
[G] In this most [Am] unusual, [Bm] most unusual, most [Am] unusual [D] play. _
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Oh, the language is [Db] a bit loose. _
It's [Ab] decidedly not [Bbm] Mother [Eb] Goose.
[Ab] Outside on [Db] the marquee, [Ab] this quotation you'll see.
I was shocked, [Fm] and it's signed [Eb] Lenny Bruce.
It's a [Ab] play where something [Db] went wrong.
But [Ab] it's five hours, twelve [Db] minutes long.
[Ab] If you sit [Bbm] there, my friend, from [Bm] beginning [Ab] to end.
Then [Db] your [Eb] backbone [Ab] better be strong.
[Ebm] There are [Fm] people hitting [Ab] people.
[Ebm] There's a [Fm] couple in a [Db] cage.
[Fm] There's [Bb] neurotics, [Eb] there's psychotics.
_ [Bbm] And the bathroom is right [Eb] on the stage.
[Ab] It's a great big [Db] critical smash.
And they're raking in all [Bbm] kinds of cash.
[Eb]
But [Ab] the [Db] theater's [Ab] appalling with things that are crawling.
[Cm] I think [Fm] I am getting [Bb] a rash.
[Ab] From this most [Cm] unusual, [Db] most [Eb] unusual, most [Db] unusual [Fm] play.
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_ Hey, Alan, you know you're looking great.
Well, I have lost a little weight.
Well, let's go out and look for it.
Where'd you lose that weight, huh?
You look like you've [B] got maternity pants on.
[G] Maternity pants?
_ _ I look like maternity pants, [Bb] don't I?
_ Whee!
_ Listen.
[E] You got maternity pants on?
Oh, stop!
Maternity pants!
[N] Listen, bro, would you do me a favor?
Anything you want, Alan.
I wrote a song.
Will you sing it with me?
It's very tricky.
The words are tricky and hard to learn.
But if you could sing it, I'd sure appreciate it.
Well, [A] you can bet your sweet cheeks I will. _ _
I'll sing it. Tricky words?
Yes.
Well, can I have [N] Guy Marks come out and help me with the tricky words?
Is he good at tricky words, too?
You can bet your sweet cheeks.
All right.
_ _ _ [B] Hey, [Bb] Guy.
[C] You're smart.
I'm [Fm] as good as Mike.
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Good old Henry Ford, he [Cm] was a hard-working man.
[Bb] He worked [Fm] all night [Eb] and all day.
Yeah?
[G] I said, Henry, what you doing?
[Cm] And Henry, he said, [A] I'm inventing [Bb] the Chevrolet.
[C] Oh, no.
[Eb] He said, I've already built [Cm] 25 models.
_ One [D] for each letter [G] from A to Z.
_ [Ab] I said, [Am] Henry, you idiot.
There are [Bbm] 26 letters in the alphabet.
[C] He [F] said, good heavens, I [Gm] forgot the model [Eb] T.
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_ Good advice.
[Eb] _ [A] Good advice.
[Abm] Good [Eb] _ _ [C] advice. _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ Now you _ know a man named [Cm] Otis who invented the room.
[Gm] His heart [D] was filled with [Eb] pride.
I [G] said to Mr.
Otis, [Cm] what does your room do?
[F] He said, it goes from [Bb] side to side.
So [Eb] I said, Mr.
Otis, [Cm] you take my advice, [D] you'll be the [Ab] richest man in town.
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[Ab] You gotta [A] take that room [C] that goes from side to side [A] and make it [Ab] go up [Eb] and down.
[Ab] And that was good [Eb] advice.
Good [Abm] advice.
[Gm] Good _ [B] advice. _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] Wilbur and Orville [Dbm] were two brothers [Gb] named Wright.
[B] The nicest [Eb] pair of kids [E] you've ever seen. _
[Ab] They worked 12 [Dbm] years on a secret project.
They thought [Gb] it was a washing [B] machine. _
[E] I said, fellas, what [Dbm] are those wings for?
[Abm] They said, for [A] hanging clothes [Ab] out to dry. _
[A] I said, you [Eb] fools, take that [Abm] washing machine out to Kitty Hawk [Ab] and see [A] if it'll turn out nice.
Good _ _ advice.
[E] _ [Fm] Good advice.
[Gb] Good _ _ [C] advice.
[Dm] Christopher _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Columbus [G] was a seaman second class.
[D] When I told him that the Indies [F] could be found _ [A] by sailing to the west [Dm] instead of sailing to the east.
I advised him that [G] I thought the world [C] was round. _
[Am] And then I sent him down to [G] ask good Queen Isabel to [Gm] pawn her jewels for all [A] their worth. _
[Gm] Next day he set [Ab] sail.
[F] And as everyone [D]
knows, [G] he [C] fell off the edge of [F] the earth.
[Bb]
Good advice.
_ _ _ _ [Am] Bad [Gbm]
advice.
[G] Bad advice is just the [F] same as good advice.
[Bb] Everybody [Cm] makes occasional [D]
mistakes.
And [G] that was bad _ [C] _ _ _
[A] advice.
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