Misc Musicals – Rent - Tango Maureen (Guitar)

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[Intro] Cm [Verse 1] [Joanne]
Cm
The samples won't delay, but the cable
[Mark]
Cm
There's another way

Cm
Say something. Anything.
[Joanne]
Fm
Test, one, two, three
[Mark]
G            Cm
Anything but that.
[Joanne]
Cm
This is weird
[Mark]
Cm
It's weird
[Joanne]
Cm
Very weird
[Mark]
Cm
Fuckin' weird
[Joanne]
                                     G
I'm so mad that I don't know what to do

         G
Fighting with microphones, freezing down to my bones

                                Cm
And to top it all off, I'm with you
[Mark]
          Cm
Feel like going insane, got a fire in your brain

                                G
And you're thinking of drinking gasoline?
[Joanne]
G
As a matter of fact
[Mark]
G
Honey, I know this act

G               C     Cmaj7
It's called the Tango Maureen
[Chorus]
    C
The Tango Maureen

       Fm                   C
It's a dark, dizzy merry-go-round

   G
As she keeps you dangling
[Joanne]
G
You're wrong.
[Mark]
     C
Your heart she is mangling
[Joanne]
C
It's different with me!
[Mark]
        F                            Fm
And you toss and you turn 'cause her cold eyes can burn

        C                       A7
Yet you yearn and you churn and rebound
[Joanne]
          G
I think I know what you mean
[Both]
          Cm      C
The Tango Maureen
[Verse 2] [Mark]
        F               Fm                  Fm/C C
Has she ever pouted her lips and called you       'pookie?'
[Joanne]
       Fm/C C Fm/C C
Never.
[Mark]
         F              Fm
Have you ever doubted a kiss or two?
[Joanne]
        Fm/G G       Fm/G G Fm/G G 
This is       spooky

        F                                 Fm
Did you swoon when she walked through the door?
[Mark]
                  Fm/C C          Fm/C C Fm/C C
Every time, so be        cautious
[Joanne]
        F
Did she moon over other boys?
[Mark]
Fm
   More than moon
[Joanne]
            Fm/G G     G
I'm getting nauseous
[Interlude]
Cm  
   Where'd you learn to tango? 

                                                                      G7
With the French ambassador's daughter in her dorm room at Ms. Porters.  And you?
N.C. With Nanette Himmelfarb, the rabbi's daughter at the Scarsdale Jewish community center
G7
   It's hard to do this backwards

                     Cm
You should try it in heels
[Instrumental] Cm Fm6 Ab7 G7 Cm7 Fm G7 G A7#5 [Verse 3]
Dm
She cheated
[Mark]
Dm
She cheated
[Joanne]
Dm
Maureen cheated
[Mark]
Dm
Fuckin' cheated
[Joanne]
    Dm                               A7
I'm defeated, I should give up right now
[Mark]
      A7
Gotta look on the bright side with all of your might
[Joanne]
    A                  Dm
I'd fall for her still anyhow
[Both]
Dm
When you're dancing her dance, you don't stand a chance

    Dm                        A7
Her grip of romance makes you fall
[Mark]
A
So you think, might as well
[Joanne]
A
Dance a tango to hell
[Both]
   A                  A7      Dm  D
At least I'll have tangoed at all
[Chorus]
    D            Dmaj7
The Tango Maureen

      Bbmaj7                  D7
Gotta dance 'til your diva is through

    A                      A7
You pretend to believe her

              D                       D7
'Cause in the end, you can't leave her

        G
But the end, it will come

          Gm
Still you have to play dumb

            D                         B 
'Til you're glum and you bum and turn blue
[Mark]
    Baug  A
Why do we love when she's mean
[Joanne]
Aaug            Bb/A
    And she can be so obscene

Aaug      A5   Bb/A C7/A
    My Maureen
[Both]
A             D
The Tango Maureen