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Song title:       Fly Into The Mystery
Original Album:	  Rock'n'Roll With The Modern Lovers
Other Album:      Precise Modern Lovers Order

Words and Music by Jonathan Richman
Copyright © 1976 Sanctuary Records
Published by Modern Lovers Music

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
This was transcribed from the version on Precise Modern Lovers Order. The
lyrics are slightly different compared to the "Rock 'n Roll With..." version
(but no surprises there...!).
This is a strikingly beautiful song that used to be performed by the first
incarnation of the Modern Lovers.


INTRO:

[play: A  G  A]


VERSE:
A                                          G  A
  Well, it's eight o'clock in my favourite Boston.
                                                           G      A
You see, there's the Filene's and McGuilchrist's have just locked up.
                    G          A                    D
It's so good to see stars from here, because we had lost them.
(I love Boston)

                 D                      A
Now it's time to fly, fly into the mystery.
        D                                A
I wanna drive out with the car past Beverly
      G                 A
Gonna fly into the mystery.
  G           A
Into the mystery.


VERSE:
Now, when it's eight o'clock, here it is, it's eight o'clock in Boston's
North Shore
The hard-working boyfriend has lost his girlfriend.
Now, he wished she would stay around but she was restless and knew
that it was time to go away
She had to go, she thought it was time to fly into the mystery.
She's not coming back for a while, to Beverly (you get tired)
She had to fly into the mystery
Into the mystery


[Instrumental over VERSE chords]


VERSE:
Now it's eight o'clock in waterfront-Boston.
And Filene's has just locked up.
It's so good to see all the little stars, you know,
I'm glad they're there,and we hadn't lost them in Boston
It's time to fly into the mystery.
Gonna drive on out, go way past Beverley
We're gonna fly into the mystery,
Fly into the mystery.



CHORDS:
A     577655
G     355433
D     557775
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Rock 'n' Roll With The Modern Lovers version
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INTRO:

Let's make this a slow dance. Ladies' choice...

[play: A  G  A]


VERSE:
A                                G  A
  See now, it's eight o'clock in Boston.
                      G      A
And Filene's has just locked up.
                                          D
It's so good to see the sky clear up this way.
                              A
There's the stars, we haven't lost 'em.
             D                    A
It's time to fly into life's mystery.
             D                        A
It's time to go somewhere we've never seen.
             D                    A
It's time to fly into life's mystery.
      G           A
Fly into the mystery.


VERSE:
Well, it's eight o'clock in Boston suburbs too.
And some boyfriend, he's lost his girlfriend.
Funny now, she was here just a minute ago.
She must have gone away. Where'd she go?
She must have gone to fly into life's mystery.
She goes no more to the places she used to be.
She goes to fly now into life's mystery.
Look at her go into the mystery.


VERSE:
Now it's eight o'clock in Boston.
And Filene there has just locked up for the night.
But it's clear sky and the stars shine.
I'm lookin' right up at them.
Isn't it time for us to fly into life's mystery?
Time to go somewhere we've never seen.
Fly into life's mystery.
Fly into the mystery.