Chords for Liza's At The Palace - What Makes a Man a Man?

_ _ _ One of my favorite composers is the brilliant, _ brilliant man,
Charles Aznavour. _ _
_ _ _ He explores the world that he lives in.
You know, and then he writes songs about issues
that few composers are brave enough to write about.
_ _ _ Over 35 years ago, he wrote this song
_ about a time when you could be arrested, _ _
you could have your passport confiscated,
_ you could be jailed, _ and you could be
beaten _ just _ for _ being yourself. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _
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_ _ _ [Abm] My mom and I, we live alone.
A large [G] apartment is [Abm] our home in Fairholme [E] Tower.
_ [Eb] We have to keep us company to dogs, a cat, a [Abm] parakeet,
[Eb] [Dbm] some [Abm] plants and flowers.
_ I help my mother with the chores.
I wash, she [G] dries, I do [Ab] the floors.
_ [B] We [Dbm] work together.
I shop and sew and cook a bit.
Though she [E] does too, I [Bb] must admit, _ _ I [Dbm] do it better.
[Eb] _ _ [Abm] At night, I work in a strange bar, _ [G] impersonating [Abm] every star.
I'm [Dbm] quite deceiving.
The customers come [Bb] in without _ [Eb] and wonder what [Bbm] I'm all about.
[Eb] _ [Dbm] _
But leave [Abm] believing.
I do a very special show where I [G] am nude from head [Ab] to toe. _
[Gbm] After [Dbm] strict teasing, each night the men look so surprised.
I exchange my sex [Abm] before their eyes.
Tell me if you can what makes _ a [Eb] man.
_ _ [Abm] Oh, man.
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[Abm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [Gbm] _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ Round 3 o'clock or so, I meet with [Ab] some to have a bite to [Am] eat.
[Dm] In conversation, _ _ we talk and empty out our hearts
[E] on every subject from the arts [D] to [Am] liberation.
_ We love to pull apart someone or spread [Ab] some gossip just [A] for fun
[Dm] or start a rumor.
_ We let our hair down, so to speak, and mock ourselves
with [B] tongue in cheek and [Dm] inside [E] humor.
_ [Am] _
So many times we have to pay [Ab] for having [C] fun and [Gb] being gay.
_ [G] It's not [Dm] amusing. _
There's always those to spoil our dreams [E] by [Dm] finding faults
and [Ab] calling names.
[Dm] _ [Am] Always accusing.
They draw attention to [Ab] themselves [C] at the expense of [A] someone else.
_ [Dm] It's so confusing. _
_ Yet they make fun of how I walk [Am] and imitate the way I [Bm] talk. _
Tell me if you can _ what [Am] makes a _ [E] man. _
[Am] _ Oh, man.
_ [Dm] _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Bb] My _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [Dm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ masquerade _ comes to an end when I [Gb] go home [Gm] to bed again.
_ _ [C] Alone [Cm] and [F] friendless, [Cm] I close my eyes [D] and [Cm] think of him and [D]
fantasize.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [C] My dreams [Gm] are endless.
_ We love each other, but it seems _ [G] this love lives only in my dreams.
_ [Fm] _ _ So [Abm] one side, [A] _ [Cm] yet in this life, I must confess the search [Bb] for love
and [Cm] happiness _ is _ _ [D] unrequited.
[G] [Abm] I ask [G] myself, [Abm] what have I got?
And what I am [Eb] and what [Ab] I'm not.
[Gbm] What am [Dbm] I giving?
Yet answers come for those who make [Eb] the rules that [E] some of us
must [Eb] break just [Dbm] to keep [Abm] living.
I know my life is not a crime.
I'm just a victim of my [Ab] time.
_ [Eb] I [Dbm] stand defenseless. _
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_ _ Has the right to be a judge of what is right [Abm] for me.
Tell me if you can what makes _ a man. _
[Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] Oh, man. _
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