Tripod - Mary Anne Scod: Now, this one... I was on my way here and I had a little idea for a love song. You guys can just, you know, sing backup vocals. You know, watch me for the changes. Gatesy: Oh. Yon: Okay. Scod: I got that from "Back to the Future". Gatesy: So we just... what do we... Scod: It's a kind of fifties doo-wop thing. Yon: Okay. Gatesy: Okay, so we... (Scod starts playing) G G/Em C D Yon and Gatesy: (Entering in perfect harmony) Ooooh... Gatesy: Awww! Scod: That's good! Gatesy: I'll tell ya, fuckin'... (makes telepathy-type noises). Yon: Definitely a connection, isn't it? Gatesy: There is something there, man! Yon: So, I went... Yon and Gatesy: Ooooh... Scod: That's good, that's good. It's one of those "Monday, Tuesday", "days of the week" type songs. Scod: Met my baby on a Monday, Dumped the body on a Tuesday... Then I went to... Gatesy: Stop... A bit extreme, you think? Scod: Too Christmassy? Gatesy: No! No, no, it's just you've left yourself nowhere to go in your little story there. Yon: Yeah. Gatesy: Yeah, you know, you've... what are you going to do on, like, Wednesday? Yon: Yeah? Scod: Thought I might go to the movies. Gatesy: So it's not a song about love, it's a song about going to the movies. Scod: Fine! Song about going to the movies. Fine. Gatesy: Okay. Scod: Went to the movies on a Wednesday, Went to the movies on a Thursday, Went to the movies on a Friday... Gatesy: Stop! Going to the movies a lot, aren't ya? Scod: Well, I don't really have a girlfriend any more... Gatesy: Oh, right. Yon: I've got a good song that would finish the first half well. It's a sort of a ballady thing, it's another love one, so I think it'd really, you know... Ahh, so, if you could just play something for me ballady... Tripod - Mary Anne CD - Fegh Maha Tabbed By Nathan Lyrics from http://3pod.penny.id.au (Thanks Penny) Any Questions Email: nja1985@bigpond.net.au (Scod starts playing) G Yon: Perfect, yep. And watch me for the changes. Scod: I've been watching you for changes for ten years... (Audience "awwww"s) Gatesy: Oh, fuckin' shut up! He's a little arsehole. Yon: G Bm Em C Her name was Mary-Ann, G Bm Em C She made him feel like a man. Em D Bm Am I'm not saying that he felt like a man. Yon: He didn't want a man, he liked them as friends, but he didn't feel like a man in the same way that you'd feel like having an icy-pole, he didn't... umm... Oh, it's all right, I know what to do. Can we just start from the top? Yon: G Bm Em C Her name was Nicole, G Bm Em C She made him feel like a hole. Scod: Feel like a hole? Yon: It has to rhyme with "Nicole". Scod: Just use her actual name! We'll find a rhyme for it. Gatesy: Yeah. What's her real name? Yon: Magina - hit it! Gatesy: Umm... I'll do... I've got one for Mary-Ann. Gatesy: G Bm Em C Her name was Mary-Ann, (Yon does his telepathy trick then joins in) Yon and Gatesy: G Bm Em C She made him feel like a man. Em D Bm Am But she didn't even know he existed, Bm But oh, whenever she walked past, Am His heart would stop... Scod: G D Em C So he was dead before they even got started, G D Em C 'Cause his heart had stopped when he caught sight of her. Gatesy: No! Scod: Em It was death at first sight, F They never made it one night... Gatesy: Stop! Scod: And the... Gatesy: He didn't fucking die! All right? He didn't die. Scod: He said his heart stopped! Gatesy: Yeah, but... Scod: What is he, the undead?! Gatesy: No, no, he's not! Scod: I don't know what else I'm supposed to do. Gatesy: No, he's not undead. Scod: Doomed to walk the Earth and be in a shit song? Gatesy: That's my fucking life! Now you play the song. Gatesy: G Bm Em C Her name was Mary-Ann, Em D Bm Am She had the body of a goddess and the face of an angel. Bm Every man's desire, Am She set his world on fire... Scod: G D Em C So they were all dead before they even got started, G D Em C 'Cause the world had burned up in an incendiary disaster. Gatesy: Shut up! Scod: Join in if you know the words! Scod: Em F Everybody-was-eliminated-in-a-horrible-miasma-of-fire-and-destruction, Gatesy: Shut the fuck up! Scod: Em F The-smell-of-burnt-flesh-put-the-kibosh-on-romance... Gatesy: Shut-the-fuck-up! Scod: What? Gatesy: Shut-the-fuck-up! Scod: You said that... Gatesy: Shut-the-fuck-up! Scod: I don't know what else I'm supposed to do, you said the world had caught fire! Gatesy: It's a metaphor! I reckon my Mum could beat your Mum in a fight, you know that? Scod: My Dad could beat your Mum in a fight. Gatesy: You suck. And so does your Mum. Scod: Hey, hey, hey! Say what you like about my Mum... leave me out of it. Yon: Umm... I reckon I can fix this song up, by the way... the Mary-Ann one? Gatesy: (Laughing) You? Yon: Yeah. Fuck off. Yeah, it's a... it's a... just play, and I'll sing, and it'll be good. Yon: G Bm Em C Her name was Mary-Ann, G Bm Em C She was searching for a man. Em D Bm Am Her silhouette was unmistakable, she stood out in a crowd, Bm She had a shapely... head, Am And a long flowing... nose. Tripod: G D She was hideous, Em C A walking disaster. G D A craggy crone, Em C A picture of disgust. Yon and Gatesy: Em She caught his eye... Scod: F And returned it promptly. Gatesy: Fuck off! Scod: Em He was glad that she could catch it, F But they couldn't re-attach it. D He was blinded for all time... (Pause) Yon: All right... Yon: So they lived... Tripod: G D C ... happilyyyyyyy, Yon: Because he couldn't... Tripod: G D C ... seeeeeee, Yon: That she was so... Tripod: G D C .... uglyyyyyy! Yon: Am I'm glad it wasn't me, C D G And they lived happily...