Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

x4

Verse 1

  And if one day I should become a singer with a Spanish bum

  Who sings for women of great virtue

  I'd sing to them with a guitar I'd borrowed from a coffee bar

  Well, what you don't know doesn't hurt you!

  My name would be Antonio and all my bridges I would burn

  And when I gave them some they'd know I'd expect something in return

  I'd have to get drunk every night and talk about virility

  With some old Grandmama who might be decked out like a Christmas tree

  And though pink elephants I'd see, though I'd be drunk as I could be

  Still I would sing my song to me about the time they called me Jackie

Chorus

  If I could be for only an hour

  If I could be for an hour every day

  If I could be for just one little hour

  A cute cute in a stupid-assed way

Verse 2

  And if I joined the social world, became procurer of young girls

  Then I would have my own bordellos

  My record would be number one and I'd sell records by the ton

  All sung by many other fellows

  My name would then be Handsome Jack and I'd sell boats of opium

  Whisky that came from Twickenham, authentic queers and phoney virgins

  If I had banks on every finger, a finger in every country

  And all the countries ruled by me I'd still know where I'd want to be

  Locked up inside my opium den surrounded by some Chinamen

  I'd sing the song that I sang then about the time they called me Jackie

repeat chorus

Verse 3

  Now tell me wouldn't it be nice that if one day in Paradise

  I'd sing for all the ladies up there

  And they would sing along with me, we'd be so happy, that'd be

  'Cos down below is really nowhere

  And if my name were Juniper and I would know where I was going

  And I would become all-knowing, my beard so very long and flowing

  If I became deaf, dumb and blind because I pitied all mankind

  And broke my heart to make things right

  I'd know that every single night

  When my angelic work was through the angels and the Devil too

  Would sing my childhood song to me about the time they called me Jackie

repeat chorus

  x4 end on