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Indigo Girls - Romeo & Juliet
C C
Am Am
C
G/B Am
A lovestruck Romeo
sings the streets a serenade
C
G/B Am
Now he's laying everybody low,
with a love song that he made
G
G
G
He finds a convenient streetlight, and steps out of the shade
F F9
G G
And he says something like, You and me, babe, how about it?
C
C
Am
Am
Juliet says, Hey, it's Romeo! He nearly gave me a heart attack, yeah well
C
C
Am
He's underneath my window, now she's singing, hey-la, my boyfriend's back
G
You shouldn't come around here singing up to people like that
F
F9
G
Oh, anyway, whatcha gonna do about it?
C
G
F
F9
Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start
C
G F
F9
And I bet, and you exploded into my heart
C
G Am
Am
And I forget, I forget the movie song
G
G
G
F
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong
C C Am
Am
Juliet
C C Am Am
C
G/B Am
We both come up on different streets,
and they were both the streets of shame
C
G/B Am
Am
You know they're both dirty, both mean, yes
and even the dreams were the same
G
G
G
G
Well I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real, so tell me honey
F
F9
G
G
Now how can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?
C
C Am
Am
Now you can fall for chains of silver, and you can fall for chains of gold
C
C
Am
Am
You know you, fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
G
G
G
G
Well you promised me everything, and then you, promised me thick and thin
F
And now you just turn away and say, Romeo?
G
G
I think I used to have a scene with him
C
G
F
F9
Oh, Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
C
G
F
F9
You said I love you like the stars above, gonna love you till I die
C
G Am
Am
There's a place for us, I know you know this song
G
G
G
F
Now when you gonna realize that it was just that the time was wrong?
C C Am
Am
Juliet, I'm so in love, so in love
C C Am Am
Yeah
G/B C
C G/B Am
But I can't do the talk,
like they talk on my TV screen, and
C
C G/B Am
Am
I can't do a love song,
not the way you sung them to me
G
G
G
G
I can't do anything, but I would do anything for you, oh now
F
F9 G
G
I can't do anything except be in love with you, yeah now
C
C Am
Am
All I do is miss you and the way you used to be, you know
C
C
Am
And all I do is keep the beat, I keep bad, bad company
G
G
G G
And all I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme, well
F
F9 G
G
Juliet, I'd do the stars with you anytime
C
G
F
F9
Oh, Juliet, when we made love you used to cry; you said I
C
G
F
F9
Love you like the stars above, I'm gonna love you till I die. There's a
C
G
Am
Am
Place for us, I know you know the movie song
G
G
G
F
One day we're gonna realize that it was just that the time was wrong
C C Am Am
Juliet, Juliet
C C Am Am
Juliet
C
G/B Am
Well this lovestruck Romeo
sings the streets a serenade
C
G/B Am
He's laying everybody low,
he's got a love song that he made
G
G
He finds a convenient streetlight, and he, steps out of the shade
And he'll say something like, you and me, babe, how about it
