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

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

Bridge:
Bb      D7
I will make you
Gm       Ebm            F
Queen of everything you see
                    C
I'll put you on the map
                 Bb            C
I'll cure you of disease

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

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

Bridge:
Bb      D7
I will make you
Gm       Ebm            F
Queen of everything you see
                    C
I'll put you on the map
                 Bb            C
I'll cure you of disease

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

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

Bridge:
Bb      D7
I will make you
Gm       Ebm            F
Queen of everything you see
                    C
I'll put you on the map
                 F
I'll cure you of disease