C#m - B - Amaj7 - C#m

        C#m                  B
There's no tick tock on your electric clock
    Amaj7                C#m
But still your life runs down
                            B
There's no tick tock on your electric clock
    Amaj7                C#m
But still your life runs down

E - F#m - G#m - A  x2

[Verse 1]
    E          F#m           G#m              A
I'm halfway to heaven and my home in Forest Hills
     B          C#m         D        C#m     B
It's half past eleven, I've got some time to kill
E                  F#m      G#m              A
I missed bus connection, my train got in too late
         B                C#m          D    C#m   A
And I'm forced into reflection by this half-hour wait

[Verse 2]
    E              F#m               G#m               A
Now I have been a straight man and I played it by the rules
            B                C#m         D        C#m        B
I've been a good man, a good husband, a good old fashioned fool
         E                     F#m            G#m         A
I have a fine wife and two children just like everybody's got
          B                  C#m          D    C#m            A
But after fifteen years of marriage, the fires don't burn too hot

[Chorus]
    A                E/B
Ah, someone played a trick on me
G#7/B#               C#m
They set me up so perfectly
A                     E/B
The gave me their morality
        G#7/B#                     C#m
And then changed the rules they set for me
A               E/B
Someone must be laughing now
G#7/B#                    C#m
Although it don't seem funny somehow
A                     E/B
How the world's accepting now
G#7/B#                   C#m              F#7
What they once would not allow back in my younger days.
    B7                       E
The world has changed, in so many ways.

[Verse 3]
   E                        F#m7
My mother once said to me, so many years ago now
G#m7                   Amaj7
"Don't you touch those bad girls."
G#m7       Amaj7
So I never had girls
  G#m7          Amaj7         D
Until I had my Mary when we married
   G#m7           Amaj7
My Mary then had my two sons
   G#m7                 Amaj7
My life as a lover was already done
       G#m7  Amaj7        D          A
It was over before it had really begun

[Chorus]
   A                 E/B
Ah, someone played a trick on me
G#7/B#                   C#m
Just sent this little girl to me
A             E/B
She is my new secretary
G#7/B#                   C#m
And she's something to see
             F#7
Yes, she's a nice girl
            B7
But it's a young world

[Bridge 1]
        E                 Amaj7
And she lives her life so free
        E                     Amaj7
And she sure gets through to me

E - Amaj7 - G - B

[Verse 4]
               E            F#m7
She brings her pad into my office
            G#m7            Amaj7
She wears a sweater and a skirt
B                    C#m
Somewhere deep inside of me
 D        C#m       B
Something starts to hurt
      E                F#m7
She's wearing nothing underneath
      G#m7                  Amaj7
I can see what there's to see
    B                        C#m
She smiles and says, "You wanted me?"
 D   C#m     A
I'd have to agree
    A               E/B
You know how much I want her
   G#7/B#                  C#m
And I know that I could have her
  A      E        G#7      C#m
I know I could, I know she would
     F#7            B7
Make love to me, so wonderfully
    C#m
God damn!
        F#7            B             C#m
I'm one crazy mixed up mixture of a man

[Verse 5]
      E              Amaj7
In my head all my life
            E          Amaj7
I've been a sinner
          E                Amaj7
And in my bed with just my wife
         E           Amaj7
I'm still a beginner
      E       Amaj7
But tomorrow night
     E          F#m7
I'm taking that little girl
       C#m         B - A - C#m
Out to dinner!

[Outro]
        C#m                  B
There's no tick tock on your electric clock
    Amaj7                C#m
But still your life runs down
                            B
There's no tick tock on your electric clock
    Amaj7                C#m
But still your life runs down