Chord The Good Book by Tim Minchin

A# F life is like an ocean voyage and our bodies are the ships C A Dm Dm/C and without a moral compass we would all be cast adrift A# F so to keep us on our bearings , the lord gave us a gift C7 C and like most gifts you get , it was a book F A# i only read one book , but it’s a good book , don’t you know C7 F i act the way i act because the good book tells me so F F7/D# A#/D A#m/D if i wanna known how to be good , it’s to the good book that i go C7 F ’cos the good book is a book and it is good and it’s a book i know the good book’s good because the good book says it’s good i know the good book knows it’s good because a really good book would you wouldn’t cook without a cookbook and i think it’s understood you can’t be good without a good book ’cos it’s good and it’s a book and it is good for cookin’ Dm A i tried to read some other books , but i soon gave up on that A# F C the paragraphs ain’t numbered and they complicate the facts A D i can’t read harry potter ’cos they’re worshipping false gods and that G C and dumbledore’s a poofter and that’s bad , ’cos it’s not good morality is written there in simple white and black i feel sorry for you heathens , got to think about all that good is good and evil’s bad and goats are good and pigs are crap you’ll find which one is which in the good book , ’cos it’s good and it’s a book , and it’s a book i had a cat , she gave birth to a litter the kittens were adorable and they made my family laugh but as they grew they started misbehavin’ so i drowned the little fxxkers in the bath when the creatures in your care start being menaces G C the answers can be found right there in genesis! D chapter 6 , verse 5 - 7! G swing your partner by the hand C have a baby if you can D but if the voices your head say to sacrifice your kid G to satiate your loving god’s C fetish for dead baby blood D it’s simple faith , the book demands so raise that knife up in your hand! F A# before the good book made us good , there was no good way to know C F if a thing was good or not that good or kind of touch and go so god decided he’d give writing allegoric prose a go and so he wrote a book and it was generally well - received A# F C the telegraph said , "this god is reminiscent of the norse . " A# F C the times said , "kind of turgid , but i liked the bit with horses . " A Dm the mail said , "lots of massacres , a violent tour de force . G C if you only read one book this year , then this one is a book D and it is good , and it’s a book!" swing your daughter by the hand but if she gets raped by a man and refuses then to marry him stone her to death! Em B if you just close your eyes and block your ears C G D to the accumulated knowledge of the last two thousand years B Em then morally , guess what? you’re off the hook A D and thank christ you only have to read one book Dm just because the book’s contents A were written generations hence Dm by hairy desert - dwelling gents A squatting in their dusty tents Em just because what heaven said B was said before they’d leavened bread Em just ’cos jesus couldn’t read B doesn’t mean that we should need C when manipulating human genes G to alleviate pain and fight disease C when deciding whether it’s wrong or right G to help the dyin’ let go of life D or stop a pregnancy when it’s just a tiny blastocyst B Em there’s no reason why we should take a look D C at any other book G/B but the good book A ’cause it’s good and it’s a book D and it’s a book and it’s quite good! G G7/F good is good and evil’s bad C/E Cm/E and kids get killed when god gets mad D and you’d better take a good look G D G at the good book