Dress Rehearsal Rag Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am]

[Verse 1]
Four o'clock in the [Am]afternoon
And I [Bm]didn't feel like very [B]much.
[Am]I said to myself,
"Where are you golden boy,
Where is [Bm]your famous golden [B]touch?"
[Am]I thought you knew where
All of the [Adim]ele pha[Bm]nts lie down[B],
[Am]I thought you were the crown prince
Of all [Bm]the wheels in Ivory [B]Town.

[Verse 2]
[Am]Just take a look at your body now,
[Gm]There's nothing much to save
[Am]And a bitter voice in the mirror cries,
[Gm]"Hey, Prince, you need a shave."

[Verse 3]
[Am]Now if you can manage to get
Your trembling [Bm]fingers to behave,
Why [Am]don't you try unwrapping
A stainless [Bm]steel razor blade?

[Verse 4]
That's right, [Am]it's come to this,
Yes [Gm]it's come to [G#]this,
And wasn't [C]it a long[G]
[C]way dow[F]n,[G#]
Was[G#m]n't it[C] a strange
way down?
[F]

[Verse 5]
[Am]
There's no hot water
And [Bm]the cold is running thin.
[Am]Well, what do you expect from
The kind of places you've
[Bm]been living in?

[Verse 6]
[Am]Don't drink from that cup,
It's all caked and [Bm]cracked
along the rim.
That's [Am]not the electric light, my friend,
That is [Bm]your vision growing dim.

[Verse 7]
[Am]Cover up your face with soap, ther[Gm]e,
Now you're Santa [Eb]Claus.
[Am]And you've got a gift for anyone
Who [Gm]will give you his applause.

[Verse 8]
[Am]I thought you were a racing man,
[Bm]Ah, but you couldn't take the pace.
That's [Am]a funeral in the mirror
And it's [Bm]stopping at your face.

[Verse 9]
That's right, it's [Am]come to this,
Yes it's [Gm]come to this,
And [G#]wasn't it [G]a long [C]way dow[F]n,
[G#]Ah wasn't it a[C] strange way down?
[F]

[Verse 10]
[Am]
Once there was a path
And [Bm]a girl with chestnut hair,
And you [Am]passed the summers
Picking all of the [Bm]berries that grew there
There [B]were times [Am]she was a woman,
Oh, there were [Bm]times she was just a child,
[Am]And you held her in the shadows
Where the [Bm]raspberries grow
wild.

[Verse 11]
[Am]And you climbed the twilight mountains
And [Gm]you sang about t[Eb]he view,
[Am]And everywhere that you wandered
Love [G]seemed [Gm]to go along with you.
[Am]That's a hard one to remember,
Yes [Bm]it makes you clench your fist.

[Verse 12]
And then the [Am]veins stand
out like highways,
[Bm]All along your wrist.
And yes it's [Am]come to this,
It's [Gm]come to this,
And [G#]wasn't it a [C]long way [F]down,[G#]
Wasn't it [C]a strange way [F]down?

[Verse 13]
[Am]You can still find a job,
Go out [Bm]and talk to a friend.
On [Am]the back of every magazine
There are [Bm]those coupons you can send.
Why don't [Am]you join the Rosicrucians,
They can [Bm]give you back your hope,
You can [Am]find your love with diagrams
On [Bm]a plain brown envelope.

[Verse 14]
But [Am]you've used up all your coupons
Ex[Gm]cept the one that seems
To [Am]be written on your wrist
Along with [Gm]several thousand dreams.

[Verse 15]
[Am]Now Santa Claus comes forward,
That's [Bm]a razor in his mit
And he [Am]puts on his dark glasses
And [Bm]he shows you where to hit
And then [Am]the cameras pan,
The [Gm]stand in stunt man,
[G#]Dress rehear[C]sal rag,[F]
It's just the [G#]dress re[C]hearsal [F]rag,
You know [G#]this dress re[C]hearsal [Gm]rag,[F]
It's just a [G#]dress re[C]hearsal [F]rag[Fm].