Piazza, New York Catcher

(intro) E

E                                     A              E
Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world
F#m                                 C#m/Ab
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
    F#m                                B
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
    F#m                                     B
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
    A                                     C#m/Ab
Oh, elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze
  F#m           B         C#m/Ab
A trail for the devil to erase

E                                 A                    E
San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
F#m                               C#m/Ab
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
   F#m                           B
We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stay
   F#m                           B
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
          A
About the saddest book you've ever read
     C#m/Ab
That always makes you cry
    F#m             B              C#m/Ab
The statue’s crying too and well he may

  E                                  A            E
I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face
  F#m                       C#m/Ab
I love you, my responsibility has found a place
  F#m                                 B
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
     F#m                          B
Come wave upon me from the family wider net absurd
             A                                C#m/Ab
“You'll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job"
F#m        B              C#m/Ab
Maybe, but not what she deserves

  E                                   A                 E
Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake
      F#m                          C#m/Ab
We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
  F#m                            B
a privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style
      F#m                            B
We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passer by
       A                            C#m/Ab
And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate
     F#m              B           C#m/Ab
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare

    E                           A             E
The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
    F#m                             C#m/Ab
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
   F#m                           B
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
   F#m                                    B
He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for
a doorway
       A                            C#m/Ab
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
F#m              B           C#m/Ab
Life outside the diamond is a wrench

  E                                    A                 E
I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
  F#m                               C#m/Ab
I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend
  F#m                             B
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
      F#m                         B
You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away, Renee"
        A                                 C#m/Ab
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like
a flower
F#m              B          C#m/Ab
Meet you at the statue in an hour
F#m              B          C#m/Ab
Meet you at the statue in an hour