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Song title:       The World Is Showing Its Hand
Original Album:	  Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love

Words and Music by Jonathan Richman
Copyright © 2004 Rockin' Leprechaun Music
Published by Rockin' Leprechaun Music

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:

[play:  | F   Gm   Am   Gm | ]   [x2]


Well...

[play:  | F   Gm   Am   Gm | ]


VERSE:
             F                 Gm                 F        Gm
Well, when I first smelled the bus fumes from the   diesel motor
         Am
Well, my two-year-old mind could only applaud such odour
    Gm                      C
The world is showing me its tricks
    Gm                    F   Gm   Am   Gm
The world was showing its hand


VERSE:
        F         Gm                 F          Gm
Then an alley somewhere, smelling of grease and piss
        Am
I was delighted that the world would want to smell like this
    Gm                      C
The world is showing me its tricks
    Gm                    F   Gm   Am   Gm
The world was showing its hand


BRIDGE:
          Dm           Am         Dm            Am
Well, the pond and the odour, the swamp and the sweat
     Gm                    C
Each smell is telling me a secret
               F                Gm                Am
So, give me an alley, give me a valley, give me a Neopolitan night
                                        Gm
Let me smell more of the world and gain more insight
    Gm                      C
The world is showing me its tricks
    Gm                   F   Gm   Am   Gm
The world is showing its hand

Yeah


VERSE:
              F                      Gm             Am
So, give me a mowed lawn, give me an ozone, give me summer rain
                                             Gm        C
Let me smell more of the world, that I might learn something

    Gm                       C
The world was showing me its tricks
    Gm                   F   Gm   Am   Gm
The world is showing its hand


[play:   F   Gm   Am   Gm]   [x2]

[end on F]



CHORDS:
F     133211
Gm    355333
Am    577555
C     335553
Dm    557765