Gino Vannelli – Venus Envy (Guitar)

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Transcription and chart Peter Kruger [email protected] |Em F#m/B |Em F#m/B |Em F#m/B |Em
              Em     F#m/B    Em         F#m/B    
Don’t want no marble statue   smooth and cold as 

 C7  C9     C7   C9   C7     
 ice               

         D7/A   Em/A   Am7   D/A   G    C#7+9 B7+5-9        Em      A/B    Em  Bm7
Not some man -  made   god   dess       cus   tom   cut and spliced

              Em        F#m/B   Em        F#m/B    C7   C9   C7       C9  C7
Don’t need no great big set of  charms to tempt my heart        oh no        prefer the        

D7/A   Am9   Am7    D/A    G    C#7+9  B7+5-9            Em   A/B
feel   of    some   thing  real             over plastic art

Em     Bm7                 Am7        D7sus4/A      
                Well Aphro dite’s got grace

        C9
but she ain’t the face                             

  B7+5-9     Em    A/B      Em
I know and I love                'cause I got      

D9                            C#9   C9 
Blood in these veins    while she’s some spooky dame                     

F#7+5+9             B7+5
Lost in the heavens above

           Ab+5/Bb  Am7     D7
Why do you wanna be Venus

                       Fmaj7/G           G9        Cmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star

                    F#m7-5      B7addE            Em  F#m7-5  G6
Why do you wanna be anyone else        other than who you     are

           E7+5-9   Am7    D7
Why do you wanna be Venus

                    Fmaj7/G             G9     Cmaj7
When you’re so much more than she could ever   be

                     F#m7-5        F#m7/B
Yeah I feel like I’m losing you

B7+5-9      Em          A/B  Em
       Come back to me

              Em        F#m/B      Em        A6    C13            Gm7/C   C13
Don’t want no hand-made inlaid     porcelain china doll    oh no  

         D7/A    Am9  Am7   D7/A    F#7+5-9     B7+5-9     Em
Not some babe    who  comes un      stitched be fore every mirror           

               A/B     Em       Bm7
on the wall                     Yeah De                         

Am7                   C9        B7+5-9
Milo’s some piece but no thanks please                                            

       Em     F#m/B     Em     A
Not my cup of tea... Oh no

              D9                  C#9 C9                
‘Cause I want flesh and bone      and not some block of stone                      

F#7+5+9              B7+5
Lying in bed next to me

           Ab+5/Bb  Am7     D7
Why do you wanna be Venus

                       Fmaj7/G           G9        Cmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star

                    F#m7-5      B7addE            Em  F#m7-5  G6
Why do you wanna be anyone else        other than who you     are

           E7+5-9   Am7    D7
Why do you wanna be Venus

                    Fmaj7/G             G9     Cmaj7
When you’re so much more than she could ever   be

                     F#m7-5        F#m7/B
Yeah I feel like I’m losing you    

                  Bb13           
Blame it on those dippy dreams of beauty queens

    A13
Who kowtow to the pressure

Dm13addE           C7-9               G13       E7
Prescribing to the point of view that bigger is better

          Cmaj9               G/B           Abm7            
Yea those tattooed lips those vacuumed hips this

               Bbmaj7-5/G
 whole insanity

F#7+5+9                         B7+5-9          E7+5+9
Remember what you do you do for you and not for me

Abm7     D7
Venus

Fmaj7/G         G9     Cmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star

                    F#m7-5      B7addE            Em  F#m7-5  G6
Why do you wanna be anyone else        other than who you     are

           E7+5-9   Am7    D7
Why do you wanna be Venus

                    Fmaj7/G             G9     Cmaj7
When you’re so much more than she could ever   be

                     F#m7-5        F#m7/B
Yeah I feel like I’m losing you    

     Em          F#m/B   
Come back to me...

     Em          F#m/B
Come back to me

                 Em         F#m/B
Baby please come back to me

     A/B
Come back yeah 
..organ: |Em F#m/B |Em F#m/B |
                Em     F#m/B  Em         F#m/B    Em    F#m/B      
( Don’t want no marble statue smooth and cold as  ice )  
Baby pleease
     Em      F#m/B
come back to me...
Em ...N.C Don’t want no marble statue smooth and cold as ice