[Intro]
Bb
Bring your own lampshade - somewhere there's a party.
Cm
Here, it's never-ending; can't remember when it started.
Bb
Pass around the lampshade. There'll be plenty enough room in jail.
[Chorus]
Cm
If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever -
C Bb
if being strong's your kind, then I need help here with this feather.
Gm D#
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
Cm Bb
at the swingin' party down the line.
[Verse]
Bb
Pound the prairie pavement, losing proposition,
Cm
quittin' school and goin' to work and never goin' fishing...
Bb
water all around; I never learned how to swim, now.
[Chorus]
Cm
If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever -
C Bb
if being strong's your kind, then I need help here with this feather.
Gm D#
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
Cm Bb Gm
at the swingin' party down the line...
Cm Bb
at the swingin' party down the line.
[Bridge]
Bb
Bring your own lampshade - somewhere there's a party.
Cm
Here, it's never-ending; can't remember when it started.
Bb
Pass around the lampshade. There'll be plenty enough room in jail.
[Chorus/Outro]
Cm
If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever -
C Bb
if being strong is what you want, then I need help here with this feather.
Gm D#
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
Cm Bb Gm
at the swingin' party down the line...
Cm Bb
at the swingin' party down the line.
