(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