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