Intro: F# F# B F# Elope with me Miss Private and we?ll sail around the world G#m D#m I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl G#m C# How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take? G#m C# How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays? G#m D#m Oh elope with me in private and we?ll set something ablaze G#m C# D#m A trail for the devil to erase F# B F# San Francisco?s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play G#m D#m Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay? G#m C# We hung about the stadium , we?ve got no place to stay G#m C# We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell G#m D#m About the saddest book you ever read, it always made she cry G#m C# D#m The statue?s crying too and well he may F# B F# I love you I?ve a drowning grip on your adoring face G#m D#m I love you my responsibility has found a place G#m C# Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words G#m C# Come wave upon me from the wider family net absurd G#m D#m ?You?ll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job? G#m C# D#m Maybe, but not what she deserves F# B F# Elope with me Miss Private and we?ll drink ourselves awake G#m D#m We?ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates G#m C# A privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style G#m C# We?ll comment on the decor and we?ll help the passer by G#m D#m And at dusk when work is over we?ll continue the debate G#m C# D#m In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare F# B F# The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day G#m D#m The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays G#m C# He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor G#m C# He knows the drink affects his speed he?s praying for a doorway G#m D#m Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench G#m C# D#m Life outside the diamond is a wrench F# B F# I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend G#m D#m I know it wouldn?t come to love, my heroine pretend G#m C# A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day G#m C# You?d settle for an epitaph like ?Walk Away, Renee? G#m D#m The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower G#m C# D#m Meet you at the statue in an hour G#m C# D#m Meet you at the statue in an hour
