Chords for Marianne Faithfull - Mad About The Boy (The Songs of Noel Coward)

_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [C] I met him [G] at a party just [C] a couple of [C] years [G] ago.
He [C] was rather over [A]-hearty and [F] ridiculous. _ _
But as I'd seen him on the screen, he cast a certain _ spell. _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ I basked in his [G] attraction for a [C] couple of hours or so.
[C] His manners [A] were a fraction [D] too meticulous.
[G] [E] If he was [Am] real or not I [Ebm] _ [G] couldn't tell.
[E] _ [D] But like a silly fool _ [G] I _ fell. _ _ _ _
Mad about the boy.
_ [G] _ I know it's stupid to [D] be mad about the boy.
_ _ I'm so [Cm] _ ashamed of it, but must admit
[G] the sleepless _ nights [C] I've had about the boy.
_ [G] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [D] _ On the silver screen _ [G] he melts my foolish heart in every single scene.
_ [G] _
_ [F] Although I'm [Cm] quite aware that here and there are [D] traces _ of
[G] the cad about the _ boy.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Cm] Lord _ [D] knows I'm not a [Gm] fool girl.
[Gm] _ _ [Bbm] I _ _
[C] [Bb] really shouldn't [Fm] _ care. _ _
_ _ [D] Lord [G] knows I'm not a [Cm] school [G] girl in the [Cm] flurry of [D] her _ first _ [G] affair. _ _
_ _ _ Will it ever ploy?
_ _ This odd diversity [D] of misery and joy. _ _
_ [G] I'm feeling [Cm] quite insane and young again.
[Ab] And all _ [G]
because [Cm] I'm mad about the boy.
[D] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ It [C] seems a little [G] silly for a [C] girl of my age and [G] weight
to walk down [A] Piccadilly [Dm] in a haze of [G]
love.
It [C] ought to take [F] a good deal [Em] more to get a [G] bad girl [C] down.
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[G] _ I should have [Dm] been exempt for [G] my particular kind of fate
has [C] taught me [A] such contempt for every [D] phase of love.
[Dm] _
And [Am] now I've been and spent [Em] my last half [D] _ crown
_ to weep about a [Am] painted _ [G] _ clown.
_ _ _ _ [D] Mad about the boy.
_ [G] _ It's pretty funny, but [D] I'm mad about the boy. _ _
_ [G] He has [Cm] a gay appeal that makes me feel
[C] there's maybe [F] _
_ [G] something _ [D] sad about the [C] boy.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _
Walking down the street [Ab] _ his [G] eyes look out at me
from [Fm] people that I meet.
_ [Ab] _ I [G] _ can't [Cm] believe it's true, but when I'm blue [D] in some strange way
[Em] I'm glad about the boy.
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Cm] _ I'm [D] _ hardly _ sentimental.
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
Love [C] _ isn't [Fm] so sublime.
_ _ _ _ [D] I _ [G]
have to [Cm] pay my rental [G] and I can't afford [D] to waste _ much [G] _
_ time.
_ _ _ [D] If I could employ _ [G] a little magic that [D] would finally destroy
_ _ _ [G] this dream that [Cm] pains me and enshines [A] me,
but I can't because _ _ _ I'm mad about the boy.
[Cm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _