Chords for Carousel: Soliloquy -- Nathan Gunn

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
[Bb] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] I wonder what he'll think [Bb] of me.
I [Bm] guess he'll call me the old [Bb] man.
[Gb] I guess he'll think I can [E] lick every other fellow's [A]
father _ where I _ _ [D]
can.
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Gb]
I bet that he'll turn out [Bm] to be the spitting _ _ image of his [Bb] dad.
But [A] he'll have more common sense than his puddin' headed father [D] ever had. _ _
_ _ [Bm] I'll teach him to wrestle and dive through a wave when we go in the morning [Dbm] for a swim.
[E] His mother [Am] can teach him the way to behave but she won't make a [B] sissy out of him.
[E] Not him.
Not [A] my [B] boy.
_ [A] Not [D] Bill. _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
My boy [C] Bill I will see that he's [G] named after me.
[D] I will. _
My boy Bill [E] he'll be tall [D] and as tough [G] as a tree.
He'll [D] pearl [G] like a tree.
He'll crawl [B] with his head held high [Em] and his feet planted firm on the ground.
And [D] you won't [G] see [A] nobody dare [G] to try [A] to boss him or [D] toss him around.
[Am] No [Bm] pot [Am] belly baggie [Bm] I bully [D] or boss him [G]
around.
_ _ _ _ _ And I don't give a damn what he does as long as he does what he likes.
He can sit on his tail or work on a rail with a hammer a hammer [Bb] and spikes.
He can ferry a boat down the river or pedal a pack on his back
[D] or work of him down [G] the streets of a town with [D] a whip and a horse [G] and a hack.
[Gm] He can haul a scow [A] along a canal [Gm] run a cow [A] around a corral.
_ _ [Gbm] Or maybe bark [Ab] for a _ carousel. _
[Gbm] Of course it takes talent to [D] do that work.
_ _ _ [G] He might be a champ with a heavy weights or a fella that sells you glue.
[Em] Or president [Gbm] of the United States.
[C] _ That'd [Ab] be all [G] right too.
His mother [Am] liked that but [D] he wouldn't be [G] president unless he wanted to be.
[D] Not Bill. _
_ My boy Bill he'll [E] be tall and [D] as tough [G] as a tree.
_ [Ab] Little [D] Bill like [G] a tree he'll [D] grow with [B] his head held high and his [Em] feet planted firm on the ground.
[Fm]
[D] And you won't [G] see nobody [A] dare to try to boss him or [D] toss him [Am] around.
[G] No flat [Am] bottom [Bm] flammy face pot [Am] belly [D] baggy eyed bastard will boss him [Am] _ _ around.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb]
Man I'm damned if I marry his boss's daughter a skinny lipped virgin with [Am] blood like water.
He'll give him a peck and call it a kiss and [Gm] look in his eyes through [Gbm] a lorne [E] yet say
_ [Am] why am I carrying on like this.
My kid ain't even [A] been born yet.
_ [F] _
I can see him when he's 17 or so and starting to go with a girl.
_ [Dm] _ _ _
[F] I can give him lots of pointers very sound [Ebm] on the way to get [Abm]
round [Gb] any girl.
_ _ _ _ [F]
I can tell him _ _ wait a minute _ _ _ _ could it be _ _ what the [Gm] hell.
_ What if he _ [Cm] is [C] a [Am] girl.
_ _ _ [D] _ [Am] Bill. _ _
Oh Bill.
[D] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Am] _
[Gb] _ What [Am] would I do [D] with her?
_ [Ab] What could I [A] do for bum with no [D] money? _ _
[Gb] You [G] can have fun with a son [D] but you gotta be a father _ [G] to _ a [C] _ girl.
_ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [E] She mightn't be so bad [D] at that.
[A] A [B] kid with _ ribbons in her hair.
[A] A [G] kind of neat [D] and petite little tin type of her mother.
_ [G] _
What [C] a _ pair.
_ [Cm] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] My little _ girl _ [Db] pink and white [Gm] as peaches and [Dm] cream [Am] is she.
_ _ _ My little girl [F] _ is [Bb] half forget [F] _
_ [Gm] as _ girls are [F] meant to [Gb] be.
_ [G] _ _ [A] Dozens [F] of boys [Bb] pursue _ [C] her. _
[F] Many a _ _ [B] lovely lad [E] _
_ _ [A] does what he can [Gbm] to _ _ [E] her.
[A] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [G] Faithful dad [C] _ _ _
she has a few.
_ [Db] Pink and white [Gm] young fellas of [D] two and [C] three.
_ _ But my little [F] girl [Bb] gets hungrier _ [F] _
_ [G] _ _ and _ she _ _ [C] comes _ home to [F] me.
_ _ [E] _ _ [Eb] Little girl.
My little girl.
I gotta get ready before she [A] comes.
I gotta make [Bbm] certain that she
won't be dragged up in slums [Gb] with a lot [Ebm] of bums [F] like me.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] She's gotta be sheltered and fed and dressed in the best that money can buy.
_ [Eb] I never [Ebm] knew [Dm] _ [Db] money [F] but I'll try.
[B] My [Bbm] God I'll _ [F] try.
[Bb] I'll go out and make it or steal it [Eb] or take _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ it _ [Bb] _ or die. _ _ _ _ _ _
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