Intro: F#5

F#5                                   B5               F#5
Elope with me Miss Private and we?ll sail around the world
G#5                          D#5
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
    G#5                          C#5
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
    G#5                          C#5
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
    B5                                  D#5
Oh, elope with me in private and we?ll set something ablaze
  G#5           C#5         D#5
A trail for the devil to erase


F#5                              B5                    F#5
San Francisco?s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
G#5                               D#5
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
   G#5                           C#5
We hung about the stadium , we?ve got no place to stay
   G#5                           C#5
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
          B5
About the saddest book you've ever read
     D#5
That always makes you cry
    G#5             C#5              D#5
The statue?s crying too and well he may


  F#5                               B5            F#5
I love you I?ve a drowning grip on your adoring face
  G#5                       D#5
I love you, my responsibility has found a place
  G#5                                 C#5
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
     G#5                          C#5
Come wave upon me from the family wider net absurd
             B5                                D#5
?You'll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job?
G#5        C#5              D#5
Maybe, but not what she deserves


  F#5                                 B5                 F#5
Elope with me Miss Private and we?ll drink ourselves awake
      G#5                          D#5
We?ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
  G#5                            C#5
a privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style
      G#5                            C#5
We?ll comment on the decor and we?ll help the passer by
       B5                            D#5
And at dusk when work is over we?ll continue the debate
     G#5              C#5           D#5
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare


    F#5                        B5             F#5
The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
    G#5                             D#5
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
   G#5                           C#5
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
   G#5                                    C#5
He knows the drink affects his speed he?s praying for

a doorway
       B5                            D#5
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
G#5              C#5           D#5
Life outside the diamond is a wrench


  F#5                                 B5                 F#5
I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
  G#5                               D#5
I know it wouldn?t come to love, my heroine pretend
  G#5                             C#5
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
      G#5                         C#5
You?d settle for an epitaph like ?Walk Away, Renee?
        B5                                 D#5
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like

a flower
G#5              C#5          D#5
Meet you at the statue in an hour
G#5              C#5          D#5
Meet you at the statue in an hour