Misc Musicals – Beetlejuice - Ready Set Not Yet (Ukulele Live)

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Eb Db Ab Bb [ADAM]
              Eb
Look at this crib

              Bbm
In all of its glorious antiquary

      Ab
Every curve and surface speaks to me

       Db
Saying pamper and spoil me

C           Bb
Sand me and oil me

     Eb
Come on

                Cm
I know to the untrained eye it's boring

                 Ab
But nothing's a chore when you're restoring

                Db
Apart from frustration, pain, and financial drain

      Cm
It's fun!
Folks say Adam
    Gm
Why do you polish your crib when you don't have a kid?
And even if you did have a kid,
      Fm
This crib is too precious for placing a baby inside it
So it simply exists to remind you
      Ab
Your sense of perfection is just a reflection that

Bb                                                Cm
you are not mentally prepared to make room for a kid

                     Eb
Adam, why don't you live?

                   F
Adam, just make a start

                                      Fm
Are you willing to take the next step?
Ready, set...
               A7
Ready, set...
[BARBARA]
               D
Look at these jugs!

           A7
Amazingly glazed and terracotta-ery

             G
I took some clay and made you pottery

    C
The world will never wreck you

                                  Bm
I'll protect you in a mother's embrace
Folks say, Barbara
F#m
Why can't you see that ceramics is
simply a manifestation of motherly panic
   Em
By making a baby that's breakable
Aren't you creating a way of translating the
          G
terror of making maternal mistakes into clay

A                                                 Bm
Hiding away so you don't have to face being a bad mom
Barbara
                   D
That's what you've done, Barbara

             E
Just make a start
Are you willing to take the next step? Ready, set... [BOTH]
A
Here we stand

                 F#m
At the end of a 10-year plan

  D
A house, a yard, a minivan

A
A baby should be next
Together let's leap off the cliff
                    B
Fall forever, then smash to bits

              D
Trapped in a terrifying viper pit
Of diapers and regret
       Bm                                 E
Are we willing to take the next step?
Ready, set... Ready, set... [ADAM]
    F#
Not yet
[BARBARA] Not yet [ADAM]
     D#m
Why rush?
[BARBARA] Why rush? [BOTH]
B
Soon enough, our hopes and our dreams will be crushed
[BARBARA]
         G
But not yet!
[ADAM] But not yet! [BARBARA]
    Em
Not now
[ADAM,spoken] Not now Ooohh? No! See? We can't start a family in a house with creaky floorboards [BARBARA] You are absolutely right
      D
Let's add it to the list

         Am7
With the cracks in the plaster
[ADAM]
    Em              G
The wi-fi should be faster
[BARBARA]
      Em
This sofa needs a castor
[ADAM]
     D
The bathroom's a disaster!
[BARBARA]
     C
What about global poverty?
[ADAM] What about world peace? [BARBARA]
                 G
Then there's the whole darn economy
[ADAM] The whole Middle East [BARBARA]
          Bb
We should learn Mandarin
[ADAM] Yeah! Or Spanish at least. [BOTH]
   Ab
No habla español

         G         Em
Dos cervezas por favor

                  F
And that's all we got
And that's not a lot
              Eb                    Bb
Do we want a bilingual household or not?

   Cm
So let's go slow

   F
No breaking a sweat

           Cm
What's the point of having children

          F
If we're covered in debt?
[BARBARA]
          Cm
Now we're totally
[ADAM]
   Eb
Completely
[BARBARA]
      Gb
Maybe eighty percent
[ADAM]
         Ab
I'd say seventy-eight
[BOTH] Ready to take
          Bb       G
The next step (Yeah! Yeah! Yeah Yeah!)

          Bb        G
The next step (Zooby dooby dooby, dooby dop and bow!)

          Bb       G
The next step (Zweeby, beeby, boo-bah-bah-dee!)

         Db
The next step

Ab
Ready, set let's...

Gb
See I wasn't kidding

       F           Bb
It's a show about death!