Saturday, 26 January 2013

The Pitch (Spectacular, Spectacular) - Moulin Rouge


Intro: A

Zidler:
         D
Spectacular, Spectacular
    G                  
No words in the vernacular
D
 Can describe this great event
 G              A
You'll be dumb with wonderment
                      D
Returns are fixed at ten percent
          G
You must agree, that's excellent
B       A  D
And on top of your fee

All:
F      D  E  A             D      
You'll be involved artistically

Duke:
N.C.
What do you mean by that?

Chorus:
D       Bm        Am                  D
So exciting! The audience will stomp and cheer
                   A            D
So delighting! It will run for fifty years
D       Bm        Am                  D
So exciting! The audience will stomp and cheer
     E             A        D
So delighting! It will run for fifty years

Various:
D           A    D        
Elephants! Bohemians!
    Em              D
Indians! And courtesans!
A                       D
Acrobats! And juggling bears!
        A
Exotic girls! Fire-eaters!
             D    
Muscle men, contortionists!
           G
Intrigue, danger!

Tolouse:
     D
And romance!

All:
D                           E       A
Electric lights, machinery! Oh, the electricity!
F#m   D           A                   D
So exciting! The audience will stomp and cheer
          Bm   A
So delighting! It will run for fifty years
D                 A                   D
So exciting! The audience will stomp and cheer
          Bm   A                D
So delighting! It will run for fif-ty years…!

A             Am    D
Spectacular, Spectacular
         G      D
No words in the vernacular
    A              D
Can describe this great event
 A
You'll be dumb with wonderment

Tolouse:
              D
It will be a spectacle!

All:
     Em        A      Eb                D
The hills are alive, with the sound of music
       Bm         A
So exciting! The audience will stomp and cheer
   D      Bm    A               D
So delighting! It will run for fifty years
       Bm         A             D
So exciting! The audience will stomp and cheer
       Bm       A               D
So delighting! It will run for fif-ty years...!


Duke:
N.C.
Yes, but what happens in the end?

Christian: *cough*
     A             D
The courtesan and sitar man
             G               D
Are pulled apart by an evil plan

Satine:
D
But in the end she hears his song

Christian:
G          D                 A
And their love is just too stro-ng...

Duke:
D                   F   F#
It's a little bit funny,    
Dbm          Ab   F#m G  Bm C G
This feeling insi--i--ide ...

All:
Bm      A                             D
So exciting! The audience will stomp and cheer
         A                      D
So delighting! It will run for fifty years


Christian:
      D             G
The sitar player's secret song
 D                  A
Helps her flee the evil one
            D
Though the tyrant rants and rails,
F#m              A
It is all to no ava-il.

Zidler:
A Eb              A
I -- am the evil maharaja,
Bbm            D
You will not escape!

Satine:
D                        F#
Oh Harold, no one could play him like you could!

Zidler:
          G
No one's going to.

All:
D    
So exciting!
       A                    D
Will make them laugh, will make them cry
D
So delighting!

Duke:
    Bb                    Am    F#
And in the end should someone die?!

All:
D                 A                        D
So exciting! The audience will stomp and cheer
     Bm                        D           A  D
So delighting! It will run for fif-ty years...!

Duke:
N.C.
Generally I like it. 


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