The Boys Light Up
Australian Crawl

Intro: Bm G A Bm

Bm                  G
I was headed for my mountain home,     
A                       Bm 
   where all the ladies names are Joan.
Bm                       G
Where husband works back late at night,
A                                       Bm
hopes are up for trousers down with the hostess on the business flight.

Taxi in a mercedes drive, I hope that driver’s coming out alive,
Darling it is ?gossip-ed?, that lady she’s so corsetted,
she’s got fifty ways to lead that boy astray.
She’s his one and only but that lovely, she’s so lonely
she pumps him full of breakfast and she sends him on his way

Bridge
Bm                   A              
One sing-song dance, one per-for-mance, 
G                   F#m
one cheap day show, oh no no no no no

Chorus
Bm                  G
Then boys light up, then boys light up,
A                   Bm
then boys light up, then boys light up, light up, light up,
Bm                  G
then boys light up, then boys light up,
A                   Bm
then boys light up, then boys light up, light up, light up.

Repeat intro riff

Silently she opens the drawer, 
Mother’s little helper is coming out for more.
Strategically positioned before the midday show,
the back is arched, those lips are parched, repeated blow by blow.
Later at the party, where all the MPs rave
‘bout the hummers she’s been given and the money that they’ve saved.
Rubbing in skin lotion, ?him? promotion too,
that flat in Surfer’s Paradise with the ocean view

Repeat bridge

Repeat chorus

JMT 8/98