Key: A
Introduction: Am Dm E7 Am
E7 Am G Am F Am G
One man deserves the credit,
Am G Am F Am G
One man deserves the blame,
Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
and Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Am E7
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...
verse 1
E7 Am
Plagiarise,
Dm
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
E7
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
Am
So don't shade your eyes,
Dm E7 Am
But plagiarise, plagiarise, plagiarise...
N.C
E7 Am G Am F Am G Am G Am F Am G
And ever since I meet this man my life is not the same,
Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Am E7
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...
verse 2
Cº Bº Bbº Aº Abº Gº
was on Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrization
F#º Fº Eº Ebº
of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold.
N.C
Dm E7 Am
This I know from nothing. What I am going to do?
But I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea - haha!
G7 C G7
I have a friend in Minsk,
G7 C
Who has a friend in Pinsk,
C G7
Whose friend in Omsk has friend in Tomsk
G7 C
With friend in Akmolinsk.
C G7
His friend in Alexandrovsk
G7 C
Has friend in Petropavlovsk,
C G7
Whose friend somehow is solving now
G7 C
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk.
C G7
And when his work is done -
G7 C
Haha! - begins the fun.
G7 C
From Dnepropetrovsk to Petropavlovsk,
G7 C
By way of Iliysk, And Novorossiysk,
G7 C
To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk
G7
To Tomsk to Omsk
G7
To Pinsk to Minsk
D7 G7
To me the news will run,
D7 G7
Yes, to me the news will run!
G7
And then I write by morning, night,
C
And afternoon, and pretty soon
G7
My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed,
C
When he finds out I published first!
E7 Am G Am F Am G
And who made me a big success
Am G Am F Am G
And brought me wealth and fame?
Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Am E7
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...
verse 3
E7 Am G Am F Am G
And who deserves the credit?
Am G Am F Am G
And who deserves the blame?
Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
Am Dm E7 Am
Oy!