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"One Beautiful Evening"
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album _Life On A String_
(Laurie Anderson, 2001)

written by Laurie Anderson

Lou Reed: guitar
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        One beautiful evening
        in the Garden of Eden
        A snake came walking in the twilight
        He was leaning on his ivory cane
        And he said
        Let me tell you a little secret about life
        There's a certain sharpness
        to a knife
        or a diamond
        Come here
        Watch it glitter

        Oh, it's another blue day
        in a nowhere place

        We're singing hey-hey, nonny-nay
        I'm a little teapot
        short and stout
        Tip me over
        and pour me out

        You know when the Egyptians
        built their steam trains
        They didn't have any fuel to burn
        no wood, no trees anywhere
        But what they did have a lot of
        was old mummy rags
        lying around
        So they gathered up all the rages
        and they burned them in their trains
        Yeah, they burned their ancestors
        for fuel

        Ooohhh, I'm a crocodile
        floating down the river
        I'm a tree catching my own oranges
        as they fall from my head

        I'm a little teapot
        short and stout
        Tip me over
        and pour me out

        And hello to all the people who sent me on the way
        A pat on the back, have fun, it's your moment now
        It's your turn to walk along the runway road
        And me?
        I sent my better self on ahead
        Your attention, please

        It's like at the end of the play
        and all the actors come out
        and they line up and they look at you
        And horrible things have happened to them during the play
        and they stand there
        while you clap
        and now what?
        What happens next?
        And the fire dies
        and there were furious winds
        where we went

        We're singing hey-hey, nonny-nay
        We're singing hey-hey, nonny-nay
        It's another blue day
        in a nowhere place
        We're singing hey-hey, nonny-nay

        I'm a little teapot
        short and stout
        Tip me over
        and pour me out

        Oh beauty in all its forms
        funny how hatred can also be a beautiful thing
        When it's as sharp as a knife
        as hard as a diamond

        Perfect



        {C#m}{C#m}{C#m}{C#m}
        .... repeat {C#m} chord to the end




* Lou Reed: guitar riff

     {C#m}              {C#m}
 1e ---------------------------------------
 2B ---------------------------------------
 3G ---------------------x-4b6r4-b6r4b6r4--   ...
 4D ---------------------------------------
 5A ---------------------------------------
 6E ---------------------------------------



*** please note ***

h - hammer on
p - pull off
b - bend string up
r - release bend
/ - slide up
\ - slide down
v - vibrato
^ - harmonics




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transcribed by Shiroh KOUCHI (wildside@mx21.tiki.ne.jp)
http://ww21.tiki.ne.jp/~wildside/
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