Royal Jelly - Dewey Cox, Written by Dan Bern


Standard E tuning

Capo on 7th


Intro: G C G C Em D G

    G                  C                G            C               D
Mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the coliseum
   C                              D
Rim job fairy teapots mask the temper tantrum
                  G
O' say can you see 'em
    C                                     D
Stuffed cabbage is the darling of the Laundromat
          G                             C
'N the sorority mascot sat with the lumberjack
    C               B               Am          G               D
Pressing passing stinging half synthetic fabrication of his-- Time
      G                C        G                C             D
The mouse with the overbite explained how the rabbits were ensnared
         C                                 C7M9
'N the skinny scanty sylph trashed the apothecary diplomat
  Am                                                 D          G
Inside the three-eyed monkey within inches of his toaster oven life

       Em      C
In my mind
           G
I'm half blind
       Em      C
My inner ref
           G
Is mostly deaf
           Em         C
I'm smell impaired
         G
If you cared
     G                 C              G             C 
My sense of taste is wasted on the phosphorescent orange peels of San 
   G       C              D
Francisco axe-encrusted frenzy

            G
So let me touch you
         D
Let me touch you
         Em
Let me touch you
         C
Let me touch you
          G        D         G   
Where the Ro-yal Jelly gets made

Intro again...

Repeat same chords for these lyrics:

Coleratura singers bringing weeds and social clingers
Hangers-on and fancy flingers
To the dress ball
Mushrooms and bowling pins
Stove pipe hats and other things I can't recall
From Juvenile hall
We're so unlucky and stuff
Woodrow Wilson never had it so tough
Dairy Queen and Vaseline and Maybelline
Paul Bunyan and James Dean


Allegory agencies of pre-Raphaelite paganry
And Shenandoah tapestries
Compared with good mahogany
Collapsing the undying postcard romance
With feline perspicacity
By the university
That night I held a paucity
Which you deemed common courtesy
I wasn't what you thought I'd be
I shouldn't have invited you to dance


In my tree
I'm halfway free
And in my chair
One quarter there
In my dream
One-sixteenth cream
In the coffee of the Courtier
Of the sycophant assistant to the king


So let me touch you
Let me touch you
Let me touch you
Let me touch you

           G    F#   Em    C      G       D         G       G C  G  C  Em   
Where the Ro  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  yal Jelly gets maaa-duh
D   G...

Tabbed By James Neil.

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