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?
G#5                                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
          G#5                          D#5          
About the saddest book you ever read, it always made she 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 wider family net absurd
     G#5                              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
     G#5                        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 
     G#5                        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?
        G#5                          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