Piazza, New York Catcher

(Intro) F# F# B F# Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world G#m D#m I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl G#m C# How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take? G#m C# How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays? B D#m Oh, elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze G#m C# D#m A trail for the devil to erase F# B F# San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play G#m D#m Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay? G#m C# We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stay G#m C# We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell B About the saddest book you've ever read D#m That always makes you cry G#m C# D#m The statue’s crying too and well he may F# B F# I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face G#m D#m I love you, my responsibility has found a place G#m C# Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words G#m C# Come wave upon me from the family wider net absurd B D#m (You'll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job" G#m C# D#m Maybe, but not what she deserves F# B F# Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake G#m D#m We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates G#m C# a privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style G#m C# We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passer by B D#m And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate G#m C# D#m In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare F# B F# The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day G#m D#m The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays G#m C# He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor G#m C# He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for a doorway B D#m Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench G#m C# D#m Life outside the diamond is a wrench F# B F# I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend G#m D#m I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend G#m C# A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day G#m C# You’d settle for an epitaph like (Walk Away, Renee" B D#m The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower G#m C# D#m Meet you at the statue in an hour G#m C# D#m Meet you at the statue in an hour