Miss Misanthrope

     B                 E       B
She said I’m blue as a robin's egg
      B              E       B
I’ve done nothing to make me proud
  B              E       B
I rehearse conversations in
    B                E     B
The shower when I am home alone
    B           E          B
No one has ever bought me flowers
   B                    E       B
Or smoked a joint on my Persian rug

[Verse 2]

F#    E   B
Go to Mexico
    F#          E
And lie under a mango tree
    B
And watch a line of crows
F#                 E
Grace the southern breeze
              B
But you won’t know where they go
F#              E
Everything just scatters out
     B
Like acorns in the snow
   E                B
Or dust clouds in a drought

[Verse 3]

    B               E           B
She said I care too much these days
 B                     E       B
About my place in this ball of yarn
        B              E      B
There’s not a lot that I can boast
  B                E           B
I water plants and make French toast
    B              E     B
And muse like some misanthrope
  B               E       B
Afraid to sow all my wild oats

[Verse 4]

F#        E       B
Read Walt Whitman poems
F#             E
Drink a bottle of champagne
    B
And sing some Leonard Cohen
  F#               E
I love it when you speak so plain
    B
The way you often do
     F#          E
When I am crying after midnight
B
Just between us two
   E                                B
It makes me smile to know you’re alright