Misc Musicals – Loves Labours Lost - Young Men (Guitar)

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[Verse 1] A
A
Young men

                     E
Are supposed to have sex

A
Young men

                     E
Are supposed to have sex

    E
And get drunk

    E                               C
And sleep in on Sunday morning till brunch

C
Young men

C
Aren't supposed to read philosophy

   G
Between the ages of twenty-two and thirty

      C
Young men are supposed to be callow and cavalier

      G
About things that later they will have to think are important

      F G
Young men

      F G
Young men

      A
Young men
[Chorus]
    A
The world is supposed to open like an oyster

    A
The world is supposed to open like an oyster

    A                       F
The world is supposed to be ours!
[Verse 2]
D                                            D/B
I don't wanna be the one who wastes precious time

                                       Em/G
The one who has no fun while I'm in my prime

                                               Em/G
Before I'm done there will be dancing and girls...

      A
Whoa! Oh oh oh oh oh!

D                                             D/B
I don't wanna pledge my brain to some college town

D/B
Before I've had a chance to look around

       D/G
Locked up with Dumaine in a cap and gown

     E
That isn't the reason you go to Brown

   A
Or Wesleyan

   A                   A
Or other schools young men attend

      A              Bm
Whoa! Oh oh oh oh oh!
[Bridge]
                                          F#m                        Bm
Why fast when there are bones we could be sucking dry? (Sucking dry?)

                                    F#m
Why give up anything when there are jokes and drinks

    A                                      Em
And things to try, oh? (Things to try, oh?)

                                G
Don't make me be serious already

                               Em
Don't make me be thirty already

                                    G
Don't make me be responsible already

                                 Em
Don't make me be grown up already

                 G
Don't make me be anything but one of those
[Verse 2]
A
Young men (Young men)

                      E
Are supposed to watch porn (Dumaine loves porn!) (I need it!)

      A
Young men (Young men, young men)

                        E
Aren't supposed to read Plato

   E
Or Derrida

   E
Or Yeats

   E
Or Adorno

   E
Or Shakespeare

   E
Or Kant

   E
Or Goethe

   E
Or Hawthorne

E
books that sit on our shelves forlorn
N.C. Why read them now if we didn't before? [Chorus]
   D
No oaths, no regrets

     A
No serious intentions

   D
No bookish retreats

   A
No quiet contemplation

    D                    A
The world is supposed to open like an oyster

    D                       F
The world is supposed to be ours!
[Verse 3]
A
Young men (Young men)

                    Bm
Are supposed to eat meat, look sharp

     C#m                       D
Dump girls, that's part of the deal

                   Esus
That's what you're owed

     E
When you're

A
Young men!