Misc Musicals – Hedwig And The Angry Inch - The Origin Of Love (Ukulele)

          D
When the earth was still flat

         Bm7
And the clouds made of fire

      A
And mountains stretched up to the sky

G
Sometimes higher

G
Folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs

         D
They had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legs

          F#m
The had two faces peering out of one giant head

            Em
So they could watch all around them

A
As they talked while they read

           G           A        D
And they never knew nothing of love

             G     A                D    G
It was before...   the origin of love

                D    G
The origin of love

                  Bm
And there were three sexes then, one that looked like two men glued up back to back,

      D         G
Called the children of the sun.

      Bm
And similar in shape and girth were the children of the earth.

                  D                      G
They looked like two girls rolled up in one.

          A
And the children of the moon

              Bm
Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.

            C#m
They were part sun, part earth

                       A
Part daughter, part son.

    D             G     D   G
The origin of love

         D
Now the gods grew quite scared

        Bm7
Of our strength and defiance

          G                             G
And Thor said, "I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer,

     G            G
Like I killed the giants."

 G
And Zeus said, "No,you better let me

       G
Use my lightning, like scissors,

                D                                       D
Like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards."

          F#m
Then he grabbed up some bolts

        G
And he let out a laugh,

                        Em
Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.

              A
Gonna cut 'em right up in half."

          G          A             D
And then storm clouds gathered above

                      G
Into great balls of fire

           Bm
And then fire shot down from the sky in bolts

                           G
Like shining blades of a knife.

        Bm
And it ripped right through the flesh

                                                 G
Of the children of the sun And the moon And the earth.

                 Bm
And some Indian god sewed the wound up into a hole

                                  G
Pulled it round to our belly to remind us of the price we pay.

      Bm
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile

                   G
Gathered up a big storm

               Em
To blow a hurricane,

               Bm
To scatter us away,

                        G
In a flood of wind and rain,

                      Em
And a sea of tidal waves,

                 Bm
To wash us all away,

                  G
And if we don't behave

                      Em
They'll cut us down again

               Ab                    G
And we'll be hopping round on one foot

D                           G
And looking through one eye.

D
Last time I saw you

        Bm
We had just split in two.

           G
You were looking at me.

        A
I was looking at you.

           D
You had a way so familiar,

        Bm
But I could not recognize,

                 G
'Cause you had blood on your face;

      A
I had blood in my eyes.

       D
But I swear by your expression

          Bm
That the pain down in your soul

          G                      A
Was the same as the one down in mine.

            D
That's the pain,

          Bm                            G
Cuts a straight line down through the heart;

            A
We call it love.

                D
We wrapped our arms around each other,

                 Bm
Trying to shove ourselves back together.

                 G
We were making love,

          A
Making love.

          D                         Bm
It was a cold dark evening, such a long time ago,

             G              A
When by the mighty hand of Jove,

            D                      Bm
It was a sad story how we became lonely two-legged creatures,

      G                           A
It's the story of the origin of love.

                       D    G    D    G    D    G
That's the origin of love.