Misc Musicals – Chess - The American And Florence - Nobodys Side (Guitar)

C#m
    You want to lose your only friend?  Well, keep it up, you're doing fine

A                     F#m
Why this humiliation? Why treat me like a fool?

C#m
I've taken shit for seven years and I won't take it anymore

                         F#m
I'm only teasing Soviets     with gentle bonhomie

C#m
And you've a better reason to be anti-them than me

          B    A   F#m       C#m/G#
There's a time and there's a place

C#m/G#
Is this the girl who always said she wants to know the truth?

          B    A   F#m       C#madd9
There's a time and there's a place...

C#madd9            Amaj7-5/C#
Nineteen fifty-six Budapest is rising

C#madd9            Amaj7-5/C#
Nineteen fifty-six Budapest is rising

         C#madd9               Amaj7-5/C#          C#madd9
I'd have thought you'd support any attack on these people

C#madd9            Amaj7-5/C#
Nineteen fifty-six Budapest is rising

       C#madd9        A/C#       B         E
On the people who ran mindlessly over your childhood

E              D            F#m          G#7            C#madd9
Don't let them fool you for thirty years on they're the same

C#madd9            Amaj7-5/C#
Nineteen fifty-six Budapest is fighting

C#madd9            Amaj7-5/C#
Nineteen fifty-six Budapest is falling

         C#madd9        Amaj7-5/C#                   C#madd9
They see chess as a war playing with pawns just like Poland

C#madd9            Amaj7-5/C#
Nineteen fifty-six Budapest is dying

       C#madd9        A/C#           B               E
If you walk out on me they will have won their first battle

E             D           F#m           G#7
Wouldn't your father have begged you to stay in the game?

   F#m                       G#7
He would, but he didn't know you

     A/C#          A           B     A
He'd loathe your behaviour and so do I

                  E          B
Why'd you have to do this to me?

B/A
   What's going on around me

F#m
   Is barely making sense

C#m
   I need some explanations fast

A/C#            B        A
    I see my present partner

F#m
   In the imperfect tense

C#m
   And I don't see how we can last

C#m         G#m               A
   I feel I need a change of cast

             E
Maybe I'm on nobody's side

B/A
   And when he gives me reasons

F#m
   To justify each move

C#m
   They're getting harder to believe

A/C#                 B      A
    I know this can't continue

F#m              A           B
    I've still a lot to prove

C#madd9
       There must be more I could achieve

C#m            G#m               A
   But I don't have the nerve to leave

            E               B/F#
Everybody's playing the game

             G#m      E/G#        Aadd9
But nobody's rules are    the same

            E/G#     B/F#  Aadd9
Nobody's on nobody's side

                E/G#       B/F#
Better learn to go it alone

                 G#m   E/G#        Aadd9
Recognize you're out on    your own

            E/G#     B/F#
Nobody's on nobody's side

B/A
   The one I should not think of

F#m
   Keeps rolling through my mind

C#m
   And I don't want to let that go

A/C#           B    A
    No lover's ever faithful

F#m                A  C#madd9
    No contract truly signed

C#madd9
There's nothing certain left to know

                            A
And how the cracks begin to show

             E          B/F#
Never make a promise or plan

              G#m        E/G#     Aadd9
Take a little love where you can

            E/G#     B    Aadd9
Nobody's on nobody's side

               E/G#         B/F#
Never stay too long in your bed

                G#m        E/G#      Aadd9
Never lose your heart, use your head

            E/G#     Bm/F#
Nobody's on nobody's side

             E/G#             B/F#
Never take a stranger's advice

            G#m        E/G#          Aadd9
Never let a friend fool    you twice

            E/G#     B    Aadd9
Nobody's on nobody's side

            E/G#             B/F#
Everybody's playing the game

             G#m      E/G#        Aadd9
But nobody's rules are    the same

            E/G#     B    Aadd9
Nobody's on nobody's side

              E/G#           B/F#
Never leave a moment too soon

              G#m   E/G#    Aadd9
Never waste a hot afternoon

            E/G#     B    Aadd9
Nobody's on nobody's side

             E/G#           B/F#
Never stay a minute too long

                 G#m      E/G#        Aadd9
Don't forget the best will    go wrong

            E/G#         B/F#  Aadd9
Nobody's on nobody's side

             E/G#            B/F#
Never be the first to believe

             G#m    E/G#
Never be the last to    deceive

            E/G#         B/F#  Aadd9
Nobody's on nobody's side

             E/G#       B/F#
Never make a promise or plan

              G#m       E/G#         Aadd9
Take a little love where     you can

            E/G#         B/F#
Nobody's on nobody's side