Chords:OMWF-Buffy Musical-I'll Never Tell
Jeff Burke the Bassoon Player
Music and Lyrics: Joss Whedon
Source : TV Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Episode Title: Once More With Feeling (AKA Buffy the Musical)
Season: 6, Episode: 7
Original Airdate: November 6, 2001
Written,Directed by:Joss Whedon
Transcribed by: Jeff Burke the Bassoon
Player<jeffbsn...@bdkw.yi.org>
Thanks To: Jörg Plate at http://www.psyche.kn-bremen.de for the
transcription script from which I gleaned the lyrics.
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I'll Never Tell
Joss Whedon
Tempo : 135 bpm
Key : G
|F7sus4 |F7sus4
ANYA:This is the man that I plan to entangle.
|F7sus4 |Fsus4 Ebsus2/F
Isn't he fine?
|G7sus4 |G7sus4
My claim to fame was to maim and to mangle.
|G7sus4 G |G
Vengeance was mine.
|Am7/G |C7
But I'm out of the biz.
|F |G7
The name I made I'll trade for his.
|Am |C
The only trouble is...
|Gsus4 |Gsus4
I'll never tell.
|F7sus4 Cm7/F
XANDER:She is the one,
|Cm7/F
She's such wonderful fun,
|Cm7/F |Cm7/F Cm7sus4/F
Such passion and grace.
|G7sus4
Warm in the night
|G7sus4
When I'm right in her tight embrace!
|G7sus4 G |G
Tight embrace!
|Csus2/G |C7
I'll never let her go.
|Fmaj7 |G
The love we've known can only grow.
|Am7 |C
There's just one thing that - no.
|Gsus4 |Gsus4
I'll never tell.
| F |Ab13(#9)
XANDER&ANYA:'Cause there's nothing to tell.
|G |G |G
A: He snores.
X: She wheezes.
|G+
A:Say "housework" and he freezes.
|G6 |(Am7) D
X:She eats these skeezy cheeses that I can't describe.
|Am7
A:I talk, he breezes.
|F/A
X:She doesn't know what pleases.
|D |Am7 D
A:His penis got diseases from a Chumash tribe.
|G |D/F# |Em7 |G/D
X&A:The vibe gets kind of scary.
|C
X:Like she thinks I'm ordinary.
|Cm
A:Like it's all just temporary.
|D
X:Like her toes are kind of hairy.
|Am7 D7
X&A:But it's all very well.
|C Eb6 G
'Cause god knows I'll never tell.
|G |G |G
A: When things get rough he
|G+
A:Just hides behind his Buffy
|G6
A:Now look he's gettin' huffy
(Am7) D
A:'Cause he knows that I know.
|Am7
X:She clings, she's needy,
|F/A
X:She's also really greedy
|Am6
X:She nev-er ... - This is
A: His eyes are beady!
|Am7 D
X: my verse! Hello? She-
|G7(b9) C7 |G7(b9) C7
<A:Look at me! I'm dancing crazy!>
|G7(b9) C7 |Bb A Bb A |
|G7(b9) C7 |G7(b9) C7 |G7(b9) C7
|Bb A Bb A ||Bb A Bb A
|G |G+ |G6 |D
|Am |F/A Am6 |Am7 Am7(b5) Am7
|G |D/F#
X&A:You know...
|Em7 |G/D
X:You're quite the charmer.
A: My knight in armor.
|C
X:You're the cutest of the Scoobies
|Cm
X:With your lips as red as rubies.
|Dsus2
X:And your firm yet supple-
|G7(b9) C7 |A Dsus2 G
X;Tight em-brace!
|G |D/F# |Em7 |Csus2/D
|G |G |G
A: He's swell.
X: She's sweller.
|G+
A:He'll always be my feller.
|G6 C6 |(Am7) D
X:That's why I'll never tell her that I'm petrified.
|Am7
A:I've read this tale.
|F/A
A:There's wedding then betrayal.
|Am6
A:I know there'll come the day
|Am7 D
A:I'll want to run and hide.
|G |D/F# |Em7
X&A:I lied, I said it's easy.
|G/D |C |Dsus4
X&A: I've tried but there's
|G6/9 |G
X&A:these fears I can't quell.
|D/F# |D/F#
X:Is she looking for a pot of gold?
|Em7 |Em7
A:Will I look good when I've gotten old?
|C
X:Will our lives become too stressful
|C
X:If I'm never that successful?
|Cm
A:When I get so worn and wrinkly
|Cm
A:That I look like David Brinkley?
|Am7sus4 D/A
X:Am I crazy?
A: Am I dreamin'?
|D7sus4/A D7(#11)/A
X:Am I marrying a demon?
D/A |D7
X&A:We could really raise the beam
| Am7
X&A:In making marriage a hell!
D |Am7 Eb G(add b9)|G
X&A:So thank god I'll never tell.
Eb/G|C Eb G |G
X&A:I swear that I'll never tell.
|G Eb G |G
X: My lips are sealed.
|G Eb G |G
A: I take the fifth.
|5/4 Eb G Eb G
X: Nothin' to see. Move it along.
|4/4 G(add b9) |C Eb |G ||
X&A: I'll never... tell!
Source: Jeff Burke the Bassoon Player<jeffbsn...@bdkw.yi.org>
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