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

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

Bridge:
B      Eb7
I will make you
Abm       Em            F
Queen of everything you see
                    C
I'll put you on the map
                 B            C
I'll cure you of disease

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

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

Bridge:
B      Eb7
I will make you
Abm       Em            F
Queen of everything you see
                    C
I'll put you on the map
                 B            C
I'll cure you of disease

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

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

Bridge:
B      Eb7
I will make you
Abm       Em            F
Queen of everything you see
                    C
I'll put you on the map
                 F
I'll cure you of disease