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