A C
New York City! (uh huh.) Centre of the universe. (sing it, girl)
A C
Times are shitty, but I'm pretty sure they can't get worse. (I hear ya.)
A C
It's a comfort to know, when you're singing the "Hit the Road Blues"
A C N/C
That anywhere else you could possibly go after New York would be:
N/C
A Pleasure cruise.
A C
Now you're Talkin'. (collins's trademark evil laugh, lol muahaha)
A C
Well I'm thwarted by a metaphysic puzzle
A C
And I'm sick of gradin' papers, that I know.
A C
I'm shouting in my sleep I need a muzzle
A C
And all this misery pays no salary so
Chorus:
C Gadd9 A
Let's Open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
C Gadd9 A
Sunny Santa Fe Would be Nice
C Gadd9 A
Let's Open up a Restaurant in Santa Fe
C Gadd9 E A
And leave this to the roaches and mice.
Cadd9 Dadd9 G Cadd9
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
F E A C
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
A C
You teach? Yeah, I teach Computer age philosophy
A C
When my students would rather watch T.V.? America. (America)
Asus2 C
You're a sensitive aesthete, Brush the sauce onto the meat
Asus2 C
You can make the menu sparkle with a rhyme
Am9 Cadd9
You can drum a gentle drum, I can seat guests as they come
Am9 Cadd9
Chatting not about Heidegger but wine.
C Gadd9 A
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
C Gadd9 A
Our labours would reap financial gain
C Gadd9 A
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
C Gadd9 E A7
And save from devastation our brains (save our brains)
Cadd9 Gadd9 A
We'll pack up all our junk and fly so far away
Cadd9 Gadd9 A
Devote ourselves to projects that sell
Cadd9 Gadd9 A
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Cadd9 Gadd9 E A
Forget this cold bohemian hell
Cadd9 Dadd9 Gadd9 Cadd9
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Fadd9 E A
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (whoa oh oh oh whoa oh oh)
Cadd9 Dadd9 Gadd9 Cadd9
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Fadd9 E Aadd9
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Cadd9 Aadd9 Cadd9
yeah yeah yeah mmhmm *strange nasal sounds*
Aadd9 Cadd9
Do you know the way To Santa Fe?
Aadd9 Cadd9
You know; tumbleweeds... prairie dawwwwwgs.
Aadd9 Cadd9 (ritando)
Yeaaah.
Amadd9