Misc Musicals – Loves Labours Lost - Are You A Man (Guitar)

   Bbmaj7                           Bbmaj7/G
Consider what you first did swear unto,

            Fmaj7                Fmaj7/D
To fast, to study, and to see no woman

                           Bbmaj7
But here's the trick: it's flat treason

                           Bbmaj7/G
gainst the kingly state of youth

                      F
Your stomachs are too young to fast,

                    F/D
And abstinence will make you sick

   Bbmaj7
We made a vow to study lords, and

Bbmaj7/G
In that vow

        Fmaj7
we have forsworn our books,

      Fmaj7/D
We've lost the war

    Bbmaj7                     Bbmaj7/G
For when would you, or you, or you

                     Fmaj7
Have ever found such words in books

       Fmaj7/G          Bb       Bb/C
As the poems you sang before for love?

D
What is a vow except to be broken?

D/B
What is an oath except to be unspoken?

D/G
What is contract but a meaningless token?

Bb           C            Am
Are you a man or just the plan your parents made?

Bb           C          Am
Are you a man or just a flannel suit waiting to get paid?

Bb           C             Am                      Dm
Are you a man or just some Bran Flakes and another inside trade?

    Bbmaj7                             Bbmaj7/G
Love courses swift as thought in every power,

             Fmaj7
And gives to every power,

  Fmaj7/D
A double power,

  Bbmaj7                         Bbmaj7/G
A lover's eye will gaze an eagle blind,

  Dm               Gm       Gm/A   Bb
A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound

             C          Am              F F/G F/A Bb
Are you a man or just a Xanax and a bleeding ulcer?

             C          Am                    F F/G F/A Bb
Are you a man or just a fantasy football girl-repulser?

             C            Am
Are you a man and can you learn to see,

     D                                  Bm
That women are the arts, the books, the academes

     Gmaj7                              F#m
That teach and show and nourish all the world?

     F#m/G F#m/A
Then fools you

D                   Bm
were these women to forswear,

           G                            A
or keeping what is sworn you will prove fools!

    G                G/A               F#m  Bm
For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,

       G              G/A                 F#m  Bm
Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men,

       G               G/A              F#m  Bm
Or for men's sake, the authors of these women,

       G                G/A             F#m  A
Or for women's sake, by whom we men are men!

Bb        C
Are you a man

          Am                        F F/G F/A Bb
Or just a can of old ideas and words?

          C
Are you a man

          Am                     Dm
Or just a channel playing Revenge of the Nerds?

Bb        C
Are you a man

           Am                Dm
Or just an MBA candidate who followed the herd?

Dm
Love is learning,

                  F     C/E Dm
And the heart and brain are one,

Bb
Love is learning,

Gm7             F        Am
And before this night is done,

Bb              C           Am    N.C.
Pues, ¿sos un hombre o sólo haces lo que tus papas te dicen?

      G        G/A      F#m     Bm
Let's lose our oaths to find ourselves,

    G        G/A      F#m      Bm
Not lose ourselves to keep our oaths,

      G        G/A      F#m     Bm
We'll learn to love our ladies, then

      G           G/A    F#m     A
Our learning will surely make us men!

Bb           C            Am
Are you a man or just the plan your parents made?

       Bb       C        Am
(Let's lose our oaths to find ourselves)

Bb         C                Am
(What is a vow except to be broken?)

Bb           C          Am
Are you a man or just a flannel suit waiting to get paid?

     Bb           C    Am
(Not lose ourselves to keep our oaths)

Bb          C              Am
(What is an oath except to be unspoken?)

Bb           C             Am                      Dm
Are you a man or just some Bran Flakes and another inside trade?

       Bb       C        Am
(We'll learn to love our ladies, then)

Bb       C              Am
(What is contract but a meaningless token?)

      Bb
Let's lose our oaths to find ourselves,

    Bb
Not lose ourselves to keep our oaths,

      Gm7
We'll learn to love our ladies, then

                              C  F
Our learning will surely make us men!