Lunatic Moon

I was playing around with Juanita Coulson's classic filk song, Chess (and why haven't we given that song a Pegasus yet?), when I realized that you could pick up a couple of the key chords, give it a beat, file off the serial numbers, and have a fine time with them.

So I did. I hope you enjoy it.

(Chorus)
    E7sus4                         C9-5
You hear it as it's crossing the horizon
        E7sus4                          C9-5
And you know that you cannot escape the tune.
A7/G                             Am7/G
Feel the line of tension that is rising
        C/G                 D             B7
And you know that there are madmen coming soon
                 E7sus4 C9-5 E7sus4 C9-5
With the lunatic moon.

        E7sus4                       A7/G
There's music in the moonlight as it rises overhead
        Cmaj7                           B7
And the melody you're hearing means someone's already dead.
       E7sus4                    A7/G
It's a symphony of sorrow and of polyphonic pain
       Am7/G                              B7
Saying life is for the losers and there's nothing left to gain,
        A7/G                            Am7/G
But you have to keep on running and you have to shut it out
       C/G                             B7
If you want to keep on living when the madmen are about.

You look at the horizon where the full moon's rising red
And you wish that you were wise enough to be at home in bed.
It's a tremolo of terror, it's a funerale of fear
And you wish that you were crying, but you cannot find a tear.
And you know that there are madmen for you hear them start to wail.
And you have to keep on running cause the madmen never fail.

(Bridge)
    A7/G                               Am7/G
You cannot let them catch you, for the song has made them mad.
    A7/G                           C/G
The moon has stripped away the inhibitions that they had
    A7/G                             Am7/G
And set the madmen free as they're released from their cocoon.
        C/G                          D                  B7
There's madness in the music and you pray that you're immune
               E7sus4 C9-5 E7sus4 C9-5
To the lunatic moon.

There's music in the moonlight as it rises overhead
And the melody you're hearing means someone's already dead.
It's a symphony of sorrow and of polyphonic pain
Saying life is for the losers and there's nothing left to gain,
But you have to keep on running and you have to shut it out
If you want to keep on living when the madmen are about.

(Final chorus)
                 E7sus4 C9-5
With the lunatic moon.
               E7sus4 C9-5 E7sus4 C9-5 E7sus4
It's a lunatic moon.