(Ian Hunter)
F C/E F Bb F
No puppet, no liar, won't bend my lips to wire - No
C/E C
Don't pressurize me so
F C/E F Bb F
Don't gamble, with my life, or you won't live to do it twice
C/E
Oh take some good advice from me
C Eb
And let the wires rock
Bb11 Eb Bb11
G C C/B
All dressed in black so nobody sees you
A D D/C
Smile in the wings, tell me I please you
B Em Em/D
Call me a king and watch for the wordworm to choke me
G C C/B
And you're like a giraffe, the performance is poor
A D D/C
Watch the audience laugh as my head hits the floor
B Em Em/D
When I'm broken in half you still reach for the floor
D
STOP!
B
I've had enough of this
Em Em/D A
The pantomime's reversed
B A
I need -you feed
C# G
I greed - you bleed
F# F#/F F#/E
Marionette - I ain't one yet
C# F#
Teacher's pet - Well you'd better forget it
F# F#/F F#/E
Marionette - I ain't one yet
C# F# D
Teacher's pet - Go check your stocks and shares
B7 Em Em/D A
And when the coffin comes make sure there's room for two
B A
You lied - I led
G# G
I died -You're dead
F# F#/F F#/E
Marionette - I ain't one yet
C# F#
Teacher's pet - You'd better forget it
F# F#/F F#/E
Marionette - I ain't one yet
C# F#
Teacher's pet - go check your product
F C/E F Bb F
A traitor, deceiver, a groovy disbeliever thought
C/E C
A puppet was a thing cheap-taught - nothing
F C/E F Bb F
Creator, conceiver, romantic love receiver - caught
C/E
"Who are you"
C
"The nerve"
I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get
out, AHHHHH!
Eb Eb11 Eb Eb11
G C C/B
Oh he wanna play chords to the kids on the street
A D D/C
He wanna play words to a world that don't speak
B Em Em/D
He wanna play people who play hide 'n' seek when they don't talk
G C C/B
He wanna play a riff to the man with the wires
A D D/C
He wanna play lead but his hand's getting tired
B Em Em/D D
He just wanna play but don't know how to say - STOP
B
OK, the show's been fun
Em Em/D A
But my wood's begun to warp
B A
They won -I'm done
G# G
New one - begun
F# F#/F F#/E
Marionette - I did my best
C# F#
Teacher's pet - It just couldn't last
F#/F F#/E
Marionette - Get me out of this mess
C# F#
Teacher's little pet - It happened so fast
F# F#/F F#/E
Marionette - Now I need a rest
C# F#
Teacher's pet - Where's my sanity gone - Mother?
F#/F F#/E
Marionette - I did my best
C# F#
Teacher's little pet - I'm just like all the others
F C/E
They gambled, with my life
F Bb F
and now I've lost my will to fight
C/E C
Oh God these wires are so tight....
Ab
I'm just a marionette.
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Transcribed by Adrian Perkins