Have You Got A Biro I Can Borrow?

(Note: Recorded in D, but much easier to play C as shown here, with capo on 2)

INTRO: | Cmaj7 / / / | F / G7 / |
       | Cmaj7 / / / | F / G7 / |

 Cmaj7          C7         Fmaj7   Fm
Have you got a Biro I can borrow?

     F
I'd like to write your name

        G                       F
On the palm of my hand, on the walls of the hall

     D7                         F            G7
The roof of the house, right across the land

Cmaj7        C7             Fmaj7   Fm
So when the sun comes up tomorrow

                C(6)            Am
It'll look to this side of the hard-bitten planet

        F               Fm                      C      F   G
Like a big yellow button with your name written on it



 Cmaj7          C7         Fmaj7   Fm
Have you got a Biro I can borrow?

     F
I'd like to write some lines

     G                           F
In praise of your knee, and the back of your neck

         D7                      F              G7
And the double-decker bus that brings you to me

Cmaj7        C7             Fmaj7   Fm
So when the sun comes up tomorrow

                  C(6)       Am
It'll shine on a world made richer by a sonnet

       F              Fm              C       F   G
And a half-dozen epics as long as the Æneid



Em            Am
Oh give me a pen and some paper

 Bm                    Em
Give me a chisel or a camera

    F          A             B7
A piano and a box of rubber bands

Em                Am
I need room for choreography

Bm              Em
And a darkroom for photography

F         D7           F     G7
Tie the brush into my hands



 Cmaj7          C7         Fmaj7   Fm
Have you got a Biro I can borrow?

     F
I'd like to write your name

          G                     F
From the belt of Orion to the share of the Plough

      D7                      F                G7
The snout of the Bear to the belly of the Lion

Cmaj7        C7              Fmaj7   Fm
So when the sun goes down tomorrow

          C(6)       Am
There'll never be a minute

       F             Fm                D7     F  Fm    C
Not a moment of the night that hasn't got you    in it


(Chord transcription by Gerry Smith, amended by Pete Atkin)
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