Chords for Ron Hynes - Man of a Thousand Songs

_ _ _ Thank you very much everybody, thank you, and good evening.
[Bm] It certainly is my pleasure to be [E] here. _
The new year song, I had a call from [F#] my manager, Sherry [D] Jones,
this past summer I was over in Prince Edward [Dm] Island vacationing,
and she said, [N] I got a club owner who's willing to book you,
but he wants to know a lot of tunes you do by other people,
so [F] how many cover tunes do you [F#] do by other [B] artists, Paul Simon, [A#] _ etc.?
[A] And I said, well, you know, how many tunes does the guy want? _
She said, well, I don't know, how many tunes do you know?
I [Dm] said, well, you know, I list [E] about eight, you know,
I said, put a little post-it on the bottom, and it [N] says,
Ron Hines [F] claims to know 1,000 songs.
[E] _ _ _
_ [D] I said, who would ever dispute [E] that? _
[G] You know, what's the club manager going to say?
Okay, [N] sing them! _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] So, _ [E] on a flight to Toronto the next day,
I decided, that's an interesting title for a song. _
So I put this guy together, I hope he'll sort of like it,
you [A#] know, maybe most every performer who's ever been on stage
[G#m] might find a piece of themselves in [B] this guy.
[F] This is called A Man of 1,000 [A] Songs. _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ He got a crimson [B] red tattoo,
keeps a head and a [A] duck above his T-shirt sleeve. _ _ _
It's a broken heart and [B] the inscription reads,
_ no love songs, if you please.
_ _ _ [Em] But he don't really mean that,
[B] _ yes, it's on a cheeky [E] tongue.
_ _ He stands up, he sings one [B] every night,
he's a [F#] man without [B] a song. _
_ _ _ _ He knows the [E] street like he knows his last name,
he [A] knows the city [E] from the wrong side [A] up.
He knows that time is [F#] cruel [E] and a man's a fool
who hides the truth [B] behind a smile.
He knows the Duke of Earl, he knows my girl
and the pulse of the [E] rising [A] sun.
_ [E] _ _
The opening line on his marquee [B] sign
reads A Man of 1 [E],000 Songs. _
_ _ _ _ [C#] He knows [B] an old hotel where the desk clerk will sell you [A] your soul back,
[E] reasonably _ cheap, and the [B] sky you can call
when you're crawling the wall and [F#] the whole _ town's asleep.
He don't [E] promise [B] what he don't [E] deliver,
and he keeps it all in his _ knees.
_ _ [A] He don't dream beyond [F#] his [E] expectations,
_ but he got the stance down to [B] a T.
He got a friend in a backstage alley,
not just a thing to make the night move [A] along.
_ _ He's taken all requests, [E] as you might have [B] guessed,
he's a man without [E] a song. _ _ _ _
_ He knows [B] an old hotel where the desk clerk will sell you [A] your soul back,
_ [E] reasonably _ cheap, [B] and the sky you can call
when you're crawling the wall [F#] and the whole _ [F#m] town's asleep.
[B]
He don't [E] promise [B] what he don't deliver,
_ he keeps [A] it all [E] in his knees.
_ _ He [A] don't dream beyond his [E] expectations,
_ but he got the stance [B] down to a T.
He got a friend in a backstage [E] alley,
not just a thing to make the night move [A] along. _
He's taken all [E] requests, as you might have guessed,
[B] he's a man without a [C#m] song.
_ _ _ [E] [A] Oh, oh, [B] he's a man _ without [E] a song. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _