Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Ophelia was a bride of God, a novice Carmellite

in sister cells the cloister bells tolled on her wedding night

And Ophelia was a rebel girl, a blue stockinged suffragette

who remedied society between her cigarettes

Ophelia was a sweetheart to a nation overnight

Curvacious thighs, vivacious eyes--love was at first sight

Love was at first sight

Ophelia was a demi-goddess in pre-war babylon

so statuesque, a silhouette in black satin evening gown

And Ophelia was a mistress to a Vegas gambling man

Signora Ophelia, Maraschina, Mafia Courtesan

And Ophelia was a circus queen, the female cannonball

Projected through five flaming hoops to wild and shocked applause,

to wild and shocked applause Hey, hey .... heeeeey hey hey

(played louder, dramatically and with feeling)

Ophelia was a tempest cyclone, a G*d-damned hurricane

Your common sense, your best defense lay wasted and in vain

For Ophelia knows your every woe and every pain you've ever had

She'd sympathize and dry your eyes and help you to forget

and help you to forget ...

and help you to forget ...

(quietly and slowly)

Ophelia's mind went wondering, you'd wondered where she'd gone

Through secret doors, down corridors, she's wandered them all alone

All alone ...