original key     


[Intro]
              4x

[Verse]
            
A man walks do

wn the street,
             
he says why am

    
 I soft in the

 middle now,
         
why am I soft 

in the middle,
             
the rest of my

  
 life is so ha

rd,
          
I need a photo

-opportunity,
             
I want a shot 

      
at redemption,
             
dont want to e

         
nd up a cartoo

n,
             
in a cartoon g

 
raveyard,
            
bonedigger, bo

nedigger,
             
dogs in the mo


onlight,
           
far away my we

        
ll-lit door,
             
Mr. Beerbelly,

  
 Beerbelly,
             
get these mutt

    
s away from me

,
             
you know I don

             
't find this s

             
tuff amusing a

   
nymore.


[Chorus]
             
If youll be my

  
 bodyguard
             
I can be your 

              
long lost pal,
             
I can call you

  
 Betty,
             
and Betty when

      
 you call me
             
you can call m

        
e Al.


[Verse]
            
A man walks do

wn the street,
             
he says why am

    
 I short of at

tention,
            
got a short li

ttle span of a

ttention,
             
and wo my nigh

    
ts are so long

,
            
wheres my wife

 and family,
             
what if I die 

    
here,
            
wholl be my ro

le-model,
             
now that my ro

    
le-model is
            
gone, gone,
             
he ducked back

    
 down the alle

y
            
with some roly

             
-poly little b

         
at-faced girl,
            
all along, alo

       
ng
              
there were inc

            
idents and acc

idents,
             
there were hin

             
ts and allegat

         
ions.


[Chorus]
             
If youll be my

  
 bodyguard
             
I can be your 

              
long lost pal,
             
I can call you

  
 Betty,
             
and Betty when

      
 you call me
             
you can call m

     
e  Al.
            
call me Al.

 

[Solo]
        8x

[Verse]
            
A man walks do

wn the street,
             
its a street i

    
n a strange wo

rld,
            
maybe its the 

Third World,
             
maybe its his 

    
first time aro

und,
            
he doesnt spea

k the language

,
             
he holds no cu

    
rrency,
            
he is a foreig

n man,
             
he is surround

    
ed by
            
the sound, the

 sound,
             
cattle in the 

    
marketplace,
            
scatterlings a

                         
nd orphanages,
            
he looks aroun

      
d, around,
             
he sees angels

    
 in the archit

ecture,
            
spinning in in

      
finity,
             
he says Amen a

    
nd Hallelujah!


[Chorus]
             
If youll be my

  
 bodyguard
             
I can be your 

              
long lost pal,
             
I can call you

  
 Betty,
             
and Betty when

      
 you call me
             
you can call m

        
e Al.