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For The Benefit Of Mankind

Neil Innes

Intro*:  Am

Am                              Dm    Dm/C  Dm/B

Ever since I was knee-high to a bandy dragonfly

Dm/A      E            

I've been asking questions, "Why?"

                      Am  

For the benefit of mankind

         E             Am

(For the benefit of mankind)

Am

I compared the monkey's tail

       Dm      Dm/C   Dm/B

to the flipper of the whale

Dm/A    E

and the Buddhist's fingernail

                      Am

For the benefit of mankind

         E             Am

(For the benefit of mankind)

Am

For the benefit of mankind

        Dm

For the benefit of mankind

        E                

For the anthropological technicalogical benefit of

   Am

mankind

Instr*: Am

Am

I've seen pandas on the wing

          Dm    Dm/C   Dm/B

Heard the brontosaurus sing

Dm/A     E

And I've measured balls of string

                      Am

For the benefit of mankind

         E             Am

(For the benefit of mankind)

Am

I've untangled tambourines

     Dm     Dm/C Dm/B

Disinfected aubergines

Dm/A     E

Looped a loop in submarines

                      Am

For the benefit of mankind

         E             Am

(For the benefit of mankind)

Am

For the benefit of mankind

        Dm

For the benefit of mankind

        E            

For the abracadabrical polysyllabical benefit of

   Am

mankind

Instr:  Am  C  G  Am  C  G  Am  A

A                          E  

For the purely statistical theosophistical

G                D

characteristical man in the street

   F              C            B7             E

My proper reality universality fundamentality cannot

be beat!

     B7             E

(his fundamentality cannot be beat)

   B7             E

My fundamentality cannot be beat!

     B7             E

(his fundamentality cannot be beat!)

        Am

For the benefit of mankind

        Dm

For the benefit of mankind

        E                            

For the simply omnivorous wholly vociferous benefit of

   Am

mankind

Am

For the benefit of mankind

        Dm

For the benefit of mankind

        E                

For the anthropological technicalogical

abracadabrical polysyllabical

                                                 Am  

simply omnivorous holy vociferous! benefit of mankind

HEY!

NB:

For the sections with Dm and a bass note

(eg. Dm/C, which is Dm with a C bass), Dm can be

played without the bass note all the way through.

"*" = impressive Andy Roberts guitar solo!

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