The booklovers Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
"This book deals [Am]with epiphenomenalism, which has [G]to do with con[Am]sciousness as a mere accessory
of physiological processes whose presence or absence... makes no difference... whatever [F]are you doing?"
[Am]Aphra

[Verse 2]
[Em]Benn[C]: Hello
[G]Cervantes: Donkey
[F]Daniel Defoe: To [Am]christen the day!
[Em]Samuel [G]Richardson: Hello
Henry [F]Fielding: Tittle- tattle
Tittle- [Am]tattle...
[Em]Lawrence [C]Sterne: Hello
[G]Mar[F]y Wolstencraft: Vindic[Am]ated!
[Em]Jane [C]Austen: Here I am!
[G]Sir Walter [F]Scott: We're all doomed!
[Am]Leo [Em]Tolstoy: Yes![C]
[G]Honore de [F]Balzac: Oui...
[Am]Edgar [Em]Allen[C][G]
Poe: Aaaarrrggghhhh!
[F]Charlotte Bronte: Hello...
[Am]Emily Bron[Em]te: Hello...[C]
[G]Anne [F]Bro[Am]nte: Hellooo..?
[Em]Nikolai [C]Gogol: Vas chi
[G]Gus[F]tav Flaubert: Oui
[Am]Will[C]iam Makepeace Thackeray: Call me
'William [G]Makepeace Thackeray'
Nathaniel [F]Hawthorne: The
letter [Am]'A'
[Em]Herman [C]Melville: Ahoy there!
[G]Charles Dick[F]ens: London is
so beautiful this time of year...
[Am]Anthony [C]Trollope: good- good-
good- good evening!
[G]Fyodor [F]Dostoevsky: Here
come the sleepers...
[Am]Mark Twain[Em]: I can't even spell
[C]'Mississippi'!
[G]George Eliot: George [F]reads German
[Am]Emile [C]Zola: J'accuse
[G]Henry James: Howdy Miss Wharton!
[F]Thomas Har[Am]dy: Ooo- arr[G]r!
[C]Joseph [G]Conrad: I'm a bloody
[F]boring writer...
[Am]Katherine[Em][C]
[G]Mansfield: (cough cough)
Edith Wharton: Well hel[F]lo, Mr James!
[Am]DH L[Em]awren[C]ce: Never heard of it[G]
[C]EM [G]Forster: Never heard of it!
Happy [F]the man, and

[Verse 3]
[Am]happy he [Em]alone [C]who[G]
in all [F]honesty [Am]can call toda[Em]y his own
[G]He who has lif[F]e and str[Am]ength enough to say[C] 'Ye[G]sterday's
[F]dead [Am]& gone - I want [Em]to li[C]ve t[G]oday'
[F]James

[Verse 4]
Joyce: Hello [Dm]there!
[Am]Virginia [C]Woolf: I'm losing my mind!
Mar[G]cel [F]Proust: Je me'en souviens plus
[Dm]F Sc[Am]ott Fitzgerald:
[Em]baa [C]bababa baa
[G]Ernest [F]Hemingway: I forgot the....
Hermann [Am]Hesse: Oh es ist
alle [Em]so ha[C]sslich
Evelyn [G]Waugh: Whoooaarr!
William Faulkner: Tu [F]connait
Wil[Dm]liam [Am]Faul[Em]kner?
[C]Anais [G]Nin[F]: The strand of pearls
[Dm]Ford [Am]Mad dox Ford: Any colour,
as [Em]long as it's [C]black!
[G]Jean- Paul Sartre:Let[F]'s
go to the dome, Simone!
[Am]Simone de[Em]
Beauvoir: see'est exact present
[C]Alber[G]t Cam[F]us: The
beach... [Dm]the b[Am]each
Franz Kafka: WHAT [Em]DO
[C]YOU WANT FROM ME?!
[G]Thomas [F]Mann: Mam
Graham Greene: Call [Dm]me
[Am]'pinky', lovely
[Em]Jack Kerouac: Me
[C]car's [G]broken down...
William [C]S B[G]urroughs: Wowwww!

[Verse 5]
Happy the [F]man, and [Am]happy he [C]alone [G]who in
all [F]honesty [Am]can call today[Em] his own[C]
[G]He who has [F]life [Am]and strength enough to [C]say [G]'Yesterday's
[F]dead [Am]& gone - I want to [Em]live [C]tod[G]ay'

[Verse 6]
[F]Kingsley [G]Amis: (cough)
[Am]Doris Lessing: I [C]hate men!
Vladi[F]mir Nabokov: Hello,
[G]little [Dm]girl...[F]
[G]William [Am]Gold[C]ing:[G] Achtung Busby!
JG Ballard: Instrument [Dm]bin nacle
[F]Ric[G]hard Brautigan: How
[Am]are you doing?[C]
[F]Milan Kundera: I don't
[G]do [Dm]interviews
[F]Ivy[G] Com[F]pton Bur[G]nett: Hello...
[A]Paul Theroux: Have a nice [Am]day!
Gunter Grass: I've found snails!
[A]Gore Vidal: Oh, it makes me mad!
John [Am]Updike: Run rab[C]bit, [Am]run rabbit,
run, run, run...
Kazuo Ishiguro: Ah [A]so, old chap!
[Am]Malcolm Bradbury: stroke John
Steinbeck, stroke JD Salinger
[A]Iain Banks: Too orangey for crows!
AS [Am]Byatt: Nine tenths of the law,
[A]you know...
[C]Martin Amis: (burp)
Brett [Am]Easton [C]Ellis: Aaaaarrrgggh
[A]hh!
Umberto Eco: I don't
understand [C]this either...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Mi
[A]casa es su casa
Roddy Doyle: [C]ha ha ha!
[C]Salman [A]Rushdie: Names
will live forever...