Belle & Sebastian - Piazza New York Catcheradd

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Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world
Cm                                 Gm
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
    Cm                                F
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
    Cm                                     F
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
    D#                                     Gm
Oh, elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze
  Cm           F        Gm
A trail for the devil to erase

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San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
Cm                               Gm
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
   Cm                           F
We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stay
   Cm                           F
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
          D#
About the saddest book you've ever read
     Gm
That always makes you cry
    Cm             F             Gm
The statue’s crying too and well he may

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I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face
  Cm                       Gm
I love you, my responsibility has found a place
  Cm                                 F
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
     Cm                          F
Come wave upon me from the family wider net absurd
             D#                                Gm
“You'll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job"
Cm        F              Gm
Maybe, but not what she deserves

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Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake
      Cm                          Gm
We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
  Cm                            F
a privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style
      Cm                            F
We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passer by
       D#                            Gm
And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate
     Cm              F           Gm
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare

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The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
    Cm                             Gm
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
   Cm                           F
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
   Cm                                    F
He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for a doorway
       D#                            Gm
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
Cm              F          Gm
Life outside the diamond is a wrench

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I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
  Cm                               Gm
I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend
  Cm                             F
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
      Cm                         F
You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away, Renee"
        D#                                 Gm
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower
Cm              F         Gm
Meet you at the statue in an hour
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Meet you at the statue in an hour