When I Paint My Masterpiece - Demo
Capo 1
Key: Ab

              
Oh the streets

            
 of Rome are f

          
illed with rub

ble
            
Aged footprint

          
s are everywhe

re.
            
You can almost

              
 think that yo

           
u're seeing do

uble
            
On a cold dark

             
 night by the 

        
Spanish stairs

             
Got to hurry o

             
n back to my h

otel room
             
Where I got me

              
 a date with p

              
retty little g

         
irl from Greec

e
            
She promised s

             
he'd be right 

      
there with me
           
When I paint m

        
y masterpiece.

              
Oh the hours I

             
've spent insi

          
de the coliseu

m
           
Dodging lions 

            
and wastin' ti

me
        
Oh those might

y kings of the

 jungle
             
I could hardly

 
 stand to see 

'em
            
It sure has be

             
en a long hard

 
 climb.

             
Train wheels r

              
unnin' through

              
 the back of m

  
y memory
             
When I ran on 

              
a hilltop foll

              
owing a pack o

       
f wild geese
            
Someday everyt

              
hing is gonna 

             
sound like rha

   
psody
           
When I paint m

        
y masterpiece.

            
Sailing around

              
 the world in 

        
a dirty gondol

a
            
Sure wish I ha

              
dn't sold my o

       
ld Victrola
            
Ain't nothing 

            
like to that g

        
ood old rock-n

-rolla

   

            
I left Rome an

             
d pulled into 


Brussels
            
On a plain rid

             
e so bumpy tha

           
t I almost cri

ed
            
Clergymen in u

             
niform and you

         
ng girls pulli

n' muscles
            
Everyone was t

             
here to greet 

              
me when I step

      
ped inside

             
Newspapermen e

      
ating candy
             
Had to be held

              
 down by big p

 
olice
            
Someday everyt

              
hing is gonna 

       
be different
            
When I paint t

         
hat masterpiec

e.