Misc Musicals – Guys And Dolls - Adelaides Lament (Guitar)

    Gm
The average unmarried female

Gm/D          D7
Basically insecure

Gm7                  Dm      Eb    F   Eb   F
Due to some long frustration may react

D      Gm
  With psychosomatic symptoms

Gm/D           D
Difficult to endure

D/C   G/B               C#9b5       C9
    Affecting the upper respiratory tract

   F6
In other words

          A7
Just from waiting around

         Bb6                  Gm7b5
For that plain little band of gold

  F/C   Gm7    C7      F6
A person can develop a cold

F9         B6
   You can spray her wherever you figure

           A#m7    A#dim7
The streptococci lurk

        F6
You can give her a shot

    F6
For whatever she's got

                  F7
But it just won't work

         Bb                           Bb(add2)
If she's tired of getting the fish-eye

         F6/C     Gm
From the hotel clerk

  F/C   Gm7
A person

     C7       F
Can develop a cold

    Gm
The female remaining single

Gm/D              D7
Just in the legal sense

Gm7              Dm    Eb
Shows a neurotic tendency

    F    Eb
See note

          F
(spoken:) Note:

D Gm
  Chronic organic syndromes

Gm/D           D
Toxic and hypertense

D/C   G/B
    Involving the eye,

    C#9b5                C9
The ear and the nose and throat

   F9
In other words

          A7
Just from worrying

            Bb6              Gm7b5
Whether the wedding is on or off

  F/C   Gm7
A person

      C7      F6
Can develop a cough

F9        B6
  You can feed her all day

         B6
With the Vitamin A

        A#m7    A#dim7
And the Bromo Fizz

        F6
But the medicine never

     F6
Gets anywhere near

                  F7
Where the trouble is

         Bb
If she's getting a kind

            Bb(add2)
Of name for herself

        F6/C       Gm
And the name ain't "his"

  F/C  Gm7
A person

      C7      F    C#7
Can develop a cough

    F#6
And furthermore

          A#7
Just from stalling

                 B7
And stalling and stalling

            G#m7b5
The wedding trip

  F#/C#
A person

G#m7      C#7      F#
    Can develop la grippe

          B
When they get on a train For Niagara

                 Bm7
And she can hear church bells chime

       F#
The compartment is air-conditioned

             F#7
And the mood sublime

          B              B7
Then they get off at Saratoga

        F#/C#         G#m7b5
For the fourteenth time

  F#/C#
A person

G#m        C#7     F#
    Can develop la grippe

   D#         G#m7       C#7
La grippe, la post nasal drip

         F#
With the wheezes

        F#/E#
And the sneezes

      E9#11                 D#7#5
And a sinus that's really a pip

       G#m/B             Bm7
From a lack of community property

      F#/C#                     G#m  B7/D
And a feeling she's getting too old

  F#/C#
A person

D#m7              G#m7 C#9  F# D#m7 D#dim/C# Bmaj7 A#m D/A G#m F/G F#
    Can develop a bad, bad, cold