Misc Musicals – Chess - Hes A Man Hes A Child (Guitar)

Bb                      Bb
   He is a man, he is a child

Eb/Bb                          Bb
  I used to hold him close at night

             Bb/D             Eb
When he was haunted by his fears

     Bb/D   F7sus     Bb
His game of black and white

             Eb              F
We gave our youth to get it right

    F/A       Bb
For me those years

Eb/Bb                         Bb       F     Gm7
    Were years of poverty and joy and tears

Bb                           Bb
   I held my hand out for support

Eb/Bb                          Bb
   To clear the snow out of my shoe

Bb/D                      Eb
Somebody took it, it was him

     Bb/D   F7     Bb
And all at once I knew,

                           F
The world I was accustomed to

    F7/A      Bb
Had ceased to be

Eb/Bb                            Bb
 It stays with me, the way he smiled,

   F7sus F7  Bb
As years go by

Eb/Bb                    Bb/F
   He is a man, he is a child

F7         Bb
But who am I?

     Gm
A babusjka,

       Cm6
And a lover no more

        D/F#        D         D7b9
Is that me: and old woman who pampers

     Gm
And feeds him?

    Gm
A babusjka,

       Cm       Am7b5
But the girl he saw

       D7b9/F#
In the Red Square that day, she's still here

        D7b9/F#
And she needs him

D            D/C     D7/F#          Em7b5
God, tell me why did you have to create him

Gm/D       D/C    Gm/Bb   Cm
Vain and unfaithful?

Gm/D            D    Gm
Please, make me hate him

         Gm
Time' s a vandal

       Cm6
But my blood's running red,

        D                            D7
Though he thinks it has cooled in my veins,

            Cm/G Gm
It's still flowing

      Gm               Cm       Am7b5
I can handle what goes on in my head,

       D7b9/F#
But my feelings, they take me wherever they're going

D            D/C     D7/F#          C/E Em7b5
God, tell me why did you have to create him

Gm/D       D/C  Gm/Bb   Cm6
Cruel and deceitful?

Gm/D            D    Gm
Please, make me hate him.

C                        Bb
   He is a man, he is a child

Eb/Bb                          Bb
  And I want things to be the same

             Bb/D             Eb
We have our little Moscow flat,

  Bb/D   F7sus F7     Bb
A son who bears his name

            Eb              F
And I will never cease to care

    F7/A       Bb
I know it's sad

Eb6                         Bb
  I still recall the way he smiled

    Bb7/F   Bb
It makes me cry

Eb/Bb                    Bb/F
   He is a man, he is a child

F7         Bb
But who am I?