ARTIST: Stephen Sondheim
TITLE: Comedy Tonight
Lyrics and Chords


[Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A]

Something familiar, something peculiar
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
Something appealing, something appalling
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight

/ G CD G CD / G C F D7 / :

   Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns
   Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns
   Old situations, new complications
   Nothing portentous or polite
   Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight

   / G - B - / F FG Am CD7 / G CD G CD / G AmG Abm7 - / Am7 - - G / 

Something convulsive, something repulsive
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight
Something aesthetic, something frenetic
Something for everyone: a comedy tonight

   Nothing with gods, nothing with fate
   Weighty affairs will just have to wait
   Nothing that's formal, nothing that's normal
   No recitations to recite
   Open up the curtain, comedy Tonight

Something familiar, something peculiar
Something for everybody: comedy tonight
Something that's gaudy, something that's bawdy
Something for everybawdy: comedy tonight

   Nothing that's grim, nothing that's Greek
   She plays Medea later this week
   Stunning surprises, cunning disguises
   Hundreds of actors out of sight

Pantaloons and tunics, courtesans and eunuchs
Funerals and chases, baritones and basses
Panderers, philanderers, cupidity, timidity
Mistakes, fakes, rhymes, crimes
Tumblers, grumblers, bumblers, fumblers

/ Am7 - - - / / / Am7 - / /

   No royal curse, no Trojan horse
   And a happy ending, of course
   Goodness and badness, manifest madness
   This time it all turns out all right
   Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight

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