The Magnetic Fields – The Nuns Litany (Guitar)

          C      F         G      Am
I want to be a Playboy's bunny

           Am        F         G   C
I'd do whatever they asked me to

             C        F       G   Am
I'd meet people with lots of money

                Am 
and they would love me

     F  G     C
like I loved you

          C     F       G          Am
I want to be a topless waitress

           Am         F       G     C
I want my mother to shed one tear

            C       F       G       Am
I'd throw away this old sedate dress

           Am          F   G     C
slip into something a tad more sheer

F                C         G
 I want to be an artist's model

F                  C   G
 an odalisque, au naturel

C                      F       G     Am
 I should be good at spin-the-bottle

                  Am 
while I've still got something

 F    G  C
left to sell

          C     F     G                Am
I want to be a cobra dancer

             Am        F        G       C
with Little Willie between my thighs

           C      F        G           Am
I may not find a cure for cancer

                Am       F  G   C
But I'll meet plenty of single guys

F                 C      G
 I want to be a brothel worker

F                      C       G
 I've always been treated like one

C                  F          G      Am
 If I could be a back-street lurker

               Am
I'd make more money

     F G C
and have more fun

          C     F   G                 Am
I want to be a dominatrix

            Am           F       G     C
which isn't like me, but I can dream

            C
learn S and M

    F          G            Am
and all those gay tricks

             Am
And men will pay me to

 F     G     C
make them scream

F                C      G
 I want to be a porno starlet

F                          C      G
 (for that I'll wait till Mama's dead)

C                     F          G         Am
 I'll see my name in lights of scarlet

             Am         F  G   C
and get to spend every day in bed

          C     F        G            Am
I want to be a tattooed lady

       Am       F       G              C
dedicated, as I am, to art

            C     F           G       Am
Characters bold, complex and shady

              Am
will write my memoirs

   F    G   C
across my heart.