Misc Musicals – Urinetown - Mr Cladwell (Guitar)

G
I saw gray skies, foreboding and cold!

G                    Dm             G7
I saw gray skies and made them rain gold!

C
Now those skies aren't so bleak to behold!

              G
They're still gray

         A7                       D7
But they pay for your sal'ries tenfold!

G
I took this town that formerly stank

G                    G7
I took this town and made it smell swank!

C
I made flushing mean flush at the bank!

        G            A7
I'm the man with the plan

       D              A7      D7
And so whom should you thank? (Whom?)

G
Mister Cladwell

D
We're so thankful

G                      B
 For that bank full of dough!

         Am7   A7
You're a toreador

         B7
And it's cash that you gore!

         A7
Could we hope for much more?

          D
We really doubt it!

    D
You may be right there!

G
Mister Cladwell

D
You've got riches

G
Which is just what we need!

A7
We say hail to you, the Duke of the ducats!

B7
I can bring in bucks by the buckets!

Em
You're the master, you're making money!

A7
Faster still than bees making honey!

       D      G
You're Mister Cladwell!

G
All those coins that we take from the throng

G                       Dm          G7
End up here where those coins all belong

C
Lots of coins make our company strong

         G          A7
Charging fees as we please, is our right-

         D7
It's not wrong!

G
We're not greedy as some make us seem

G                     Dm           G7
We need funds for our big research team

C                    G
Men in lab coats and test tubes with steam!

         G
While it shows

       A7
No one knows

          D#           D
But, hey, still we can dream! (Of!)

G
Mister Cladwell (Dad!)

D7
Finding answers (Da da, da da daddy!)

G                      C B A
Curing cancers of doubt! (That's my dad!)

       Am7         D7
Your ambitions are high (Daddy, daddy)

           B         Em
But you're humble as pie! (That's my daddy)

       A7
What a wonderful guy!(And I)

          D
We simply love you! (Simply love you!)

G
Mister Cladwell

Am7        A7 D7
 You're so godly!

G                 Am7 A7
Oddly perfect and right!

        A7
You are continental, yet unpretentious!

B7
Fancy-free, yet so conscientious!

Em
Wise but trendy, tough as a mountain!

A7
Goodness flows from you like a fountain!

Am7            D7
 You're Mister, you're Mister-

D           G
 Cladwell! (Cladwell!)