of Montreal – Jaques Lamure (Ukulele)

C                             F
Jacques Lamure is a volunteer fireman

Em                    A
He longs to give his life

G#                            C#             
Saving a nice old man and his wife

Bb
When their house is filled with flames

G
Earning him honor and fame

C                                 F
Jacques Lamure is a foreman at a clock factory

Em                 A
He wishes he were boss

G#                                      C#
So he could fire that scoundrel William Moss

Bb
Who always puts him down

G
When Megan Blanchard is around

Dm
He told himself last year

C
that when springtime was here

Bb                                C#
He would suddenly appear at Meg's door

            G#                 Cm
He'd rent a mariachi band and respectfully demand

A
His dear Meg to take his hand

          B           E
And to be his forever more

                        E7
But of course he didn't dare

A                    F#
and pretended not to care

           G            C
About the insult or the loss

         C#                              D   A  F#
When he found out she'd married William Moss

C
Jacques Lamure goes to see a show

F
every other Friday night

Em                    A
He likes the westerns best

G#                                               C#
He'd rather be a sheriff with a gold star on his chest

Bb
Than that weird guy who never says a word

G
And when spoken to pretends he hadn't heard

Dm                          C
He realized one day that he didn't have to stay

Bb                                             C#
That he could move as far away as planes could fly

G#
He chuckled as he mused

Cm
About the people who had rused him

    A                                        B
And how shocked and confused that they would be

             E                        E7
When he says goodbye and never turns around

A                                F#
Never returns to that miserable town

G                                C
Then as weeks passed he soon did find

                C#                          D   A  F#
This move had greatly improved his state of mind