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Key: A

Introduction:

           Am                                                                                     C         Dm 
Now I'm of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret.
 Am                                                       Dm                                             F 
Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen may even ask my name
 Am                                           C 
As she sheds her skin on stage
 F                                                                                           Dm 
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.
 Am 
The strip joint veteran sits two away
 Dm                                                                         C                 Am 
Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and lime daiquiri
 Am               C                                               Dm 
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
 F 
  I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
 Am                             C                     Dm 
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
 Am                               C                               Dm 
Oh, and isn't this exactly where you'd like me
 F 
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
 Am                         C                   Dm               F                                                                                                                                     Am 
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety Oh......
                       Am             C                     Dm 
*palm mute *But I'm afraid that I Well, I may of faked it
 Am         C                               Dm                                                                                                               F 
And I wouldn't be caught dead, dead, dead, dead in this place
 Am                     C                   Dm 
Well, I'm afraid that I
 Dm 
That's right well, that I may have faked it
   Am(1                      C                           F 
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place
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