Misc Musicals – The 25Th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - My Friend The Dictionary (Guitar)

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[Spoken] N.C. Oh, wait. One second. Please, ma'am, could you not sit in that seat? [Chorus]
F C       F7           Bb
I saved a chair for my dad

                         Gm    C
In the fourth row on the aisle

       F        D7    G
And it may take him a while

            C7                    F    F
But when he gets here, that's his chair
[Verse 1]
         A7                       Dm7
Cause my mother's in an ashram in India

          G7
I saved a chair for her too

         C
But it's merely symbolic

N.C.         C
As daily she washes herself in the Ganges

      F
And I live in a house

                 Bb               Bbm
Where there's an oversized dictionary

       F
That I read

     C
As a girl

       C  F
On the toilet
[Chorus]
  C       F7    Bb
I love my dictionary

      Gm          Bb    C
And I love the indented border

      F              D7         G
Every word's in alphabetical order

         C                      F
Ergo, lost things always can be found
[Verse 2]
      A7
And I wrap my head around

              Dm7
The fact that in one book

              G7
Is the entire language of our species

           C
Which is a favorite term of Nietzche's

N.C.            C                                 N.C.
Who's the great-grandfather of Christina Ricci's (Ha ha ha ha ha!)

      F
Yes I joke, but the words in the dictionary

        Bb                        Bbm
Are the friends that I'll have forever

              F              C       Dm    C
More than the friends I have made in school
[Bridge]
F     C7     F7     Bb
She's such a lovely girl

       Gm        F   C
With a lovely little voice

      F          D7        G
And I heard that she's pro choice

               C  F
Though still a virgin

        A7
And she talks into her hand

         D7   Dm7
An often used technique

            G7                       C
What you do not understand is once I say it then I've said it

       F
And so much to her credit

          Bb                Bbm
She talks into her hand and turns aside

          F            C                    F
So I will not make a mistake and be disqualified
[Spoken] F (hold out) Boanthropy. B-o-a-n-t-h-r-o-p-y? Boanthropy? That is correct. [Outro]
F        C          F     Bb
My (her) friend the dictionary

     Gm7    C7   C F
Is a very reliable friend

    C  C7   F7      Bb
Doo doo doo doo doo doo

        Gm7     C       F
Bah dah dah dah dah dah dah