Key: C
Introduction:
Cchºrd
dances around to wonderful effect. I just strum the chords. I also
tend to play a lot of the chords with the two little fingers at 3rd
C D C D C D C D
Never been near a university
C D C D C D C D
Never took a paper or a learned degree
G A4
Some of your friends think that's stupid of me,
C D
But it's nothing that I care about,
C D G Am7
Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun,
C D G Am7
And all mathematics well I just shun,
G E Am D
And I may be the mayor of simpleton, but I know one thing,
C D C D
And that's I love you
C D C/E D/F#
When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done,
C/G D/A D G C G
You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor of simpleton
C D C D
I can't have been there when brains were handed round
(Please be upstanding for the mayor of simpleton)
Bm Em
I'm not proud of the fact that I never learned much,
G
Just feel I should say,
Bm Em
What you get is all real, I can't put on an act,
C D
it takes brains to do that anyway (and anyway)
Well I don't know how to puzzle problems and puns
C D C/E D/F#
When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done,
C/G D/A D G C G
You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor of simpleton
You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor of simpleton
C D7sus4/A
You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor
(Please be upstanding for the mayor of simpleton)