Elvis Costello – Monkey To Man (Ukulele)

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A long time ago, our point of view

Was broadcast by Mr. Bartholomew And now the world is full of sorrow and pain And it's time for us to speak up again You're slack and sorry Such an arrogant brood The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food We sit here staring at your pomp and pout

 C7
   Outside the bars we use for keeping you out

 D7
    You've taken everything that you wanted

Broke it up and plundered it and hunted Ever since we said it You went and took the credit

           C7
It's been     headed this way since the world began

When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man

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            Monkey to Man

 G
   Every time man struggles and fails

He makes up some kind of fairytales After all of the misery that he has caused

    C7
He      denies he's descended from the dinosaurs

 D7
    Points up to heaven with cathedral spires

All the time indulging in his base desires Ever since we said it He went and took the credit

           C7
It's been      headed this way since the world began

When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man

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            Monkey to Man

 F      C
   Big     and useless as he has become

          F  C
With his       crying statues and his flying bomb

 F       C
   Goes    'round acting like the chosen one

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      Excuse us if we treat him like our idiot cousin

 G
   He hangs up flowers and bells and rhymes

Hoping to hell someone's forgiven his crimes Fills up the air with his pride and praise

        C7
He's a      big disgrace to our beastly ways

 D7
    In the fashionable nightclubs and finer precincts

Man uses words to dress up his vile instincts Ever since we said it He went and took the credit

           C7
It's been     headed this way since the world began

When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man