Chorus:
    Bb                    F
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
     Gm           G
Will you buy me a house of gold?
    Bb                Eb
And when your father turns to stone,
     Bb        F       C
Will you take care of me?"

Chorus:
    Bb                    F
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
     Gm           G
Will you buy me a house of gold?
    Bb                Eb
And when your father turns to stone,
     Bb        F       C
Will you take care of me?"

Bridge:
Eb      G7
I will make you
Cm       Abm            F
Queen of everything you see
                    C
I'll put you on the map
                 Eb            C
I'll cure you of disease

Verse:
      Bb             F
Let's say we up and left this town
     Gm               F
And turned our future upside-down
      Bb                 F
We'll make pretend that you and me
      Bb     F     C
Lived ever after, happily

Chorus:
    Bb                    F
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
     Gm           G
Will you buy me a house of gold?
    Bb                Eb
And when your father turns to stone,
     Bb        F       C
Will you take care of me?"

Bridge:
Eb      G7
I will make you
Cm       Abm            F
Queen of everything you see
                    C
I'll put you on the map
                 Eb            C
I'll cure you of disease

Verse:
    Bb                  Eb
And since we know that dreams are dead
    Gm                  F
And life turns plans up on their head
Bb              F
I will plan to be a bum
   Bb      F       C
So I just might become someone

Chorus:
    Bb                    F
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
     Gm           G
Will you buy me a house of gold?
    Bb                Eb
And when your father turns to stone,
     Bb        F       C
Will you take care of me?"

Bridge:
Eb      G7
I will make you
Cm       Abm            F
Queen of everything you see
                    C
I'll put you on the map
                 F
I'll cure you of disease