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?
G#m                                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
          G#m                          D#m          
About the saddest book you ever read, it always made she 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 wider family net absurd
     G#m                              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
     G#m                        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 
     G#m                        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”
        G#m                          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