I like you, Mademoiselle
You're so fresh and you're so new
I do enjoy you, Miss
There's nothing I would rather do
Than move around just like this
A
D
A
But do I have to dance all night?
D
A
Do I have to dance all night?
D
A
Ooh tell me, Bird of Paradise
D
A
Do I have to dance all night?
You never have to tell me what
It is you really think of me, alright
Let's say I'm doing fine
But do I have to dance all night?
But do I have to dance all night?
But do I have to dance all night?
Ooh tell me, Bird of Paradise
Do I have to dance all night?
F#m
C#m
I learned this step a while ago
F#m
C#m
I had to practice it while everybody slept
B
F#
I waited half my life for you, you know
A
E
I didn't even think that you'd accept
G
D
And here you are before me in the flesh
F#m
A
C#7
Saying "Yes, yes, yes!"
But do I have to dance all night?
Do I have to dance all night?
Come on tell me, Bird of Paradise
Do I have to dance all night?
I learned this step a while ago
I had to practice it while everybody slept
I waited half my life for you, you know
I never really thought that you'd accept
And here you are before me in the flesh
Saying "Yes, yes, yes!"
But do I have to dance all night?
Do I have to dance all night?
Ooh tell me, Bird of Paradise
Do I have to dance all night?
Never any good at loving you
I was dying when we met, I bet my life on you
But you called me and I folded like you knew I'd do
You called my ace, my king, my bluff
OK, you win, enough's enough
I was never any good
Never any good
I was never any good at loving you
C#
I was pretty good at taking out the garbage
F#m
Pretty good at holding up the wall
C#
Dealing with the fire and the earthquake
D
D#dim
But that don't count, that don't count
A/e
F#
That don't count, that don't count
B
E
That don't count for nothing much at all
I was never any good at loving you
I was just some kind of tourist in your bed looking at the view
But I can't forget where my lips have been
Those holy hills, that deep ravine
I was never any good
I was never any good
Never any good at loving you
I was pretty good at taking out the garbage
I was pretty good at holding up the wall
I'm sorry for my crimes against the moonlight
I didn't think, I didn't think
I didn't think, I didn't think
I just didn't think the moon would mind at all
I was never any good at loving you
At doing what a woman really wants a man to do
You're going to feel much better
When you cut me loose forever
I was never any good
Never any good
I was never any good at loving you
It's going to happen very soon
The great event which will end the horror
Which will end the sorrow
Next Tuesday, when the sun goes down
I will play the Moonlight Sonata backwards
This will reverse the effects of the world's mad plunge into suffering
For the last 200 million years
What a lovely night that would be
What a sigh of relief
As the senile robins become bright red again
And the retired nightingales
Pick up their dusty tails
And assert the majesty of creation!