23 Chords used in the song: Eb, Db, Ab, Bb, Bbm, C, Cm, Gm, Fm, F, A7, D, G, Bm, F#m, Em, A, E, B, F#, D#m, Am7, Gb
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Transpose chords:
Eb Db Ab Bb
[ADAM]
Eb
Look at this crib
Bbm
In all of its glorious antiquary
Ab
Every curve and surface speaks to me
Db
Saying pamper and spoil me
C Bb
Sand me and oil me
Eb
Come on
Cm
I know to the untrained eye it's boring
Ab
But nothing's a chore when you're restoring
Db
Apart from frustration, pain, and financial drain
Cm
It's fun!
Folks say Adam
Gm
Why do you polish your crib when you don't have a kid?
And even if you did have a kid,
Fm
This crib is too precious for placing a baby inside it
So it simply exists to remind you
Ab
Your sense of perfection is just a reflection that
Bb Cm
you are not mentally prepared to make room for a kid
Eb
Adam, why don't you live?
F
Adam, just make a start
Fm
Are you willing to take the next step?
Ready, set...
A7
Ready, set...
[BARBARA]
D
Look at these jugs!
A7
Amazingly glazed and terracotta-ery
G
I took some clay and made you pottery
C
The world will never wreck you
Bm
I'll protect you in a mother's embrace
Folks say, Barbara
F#m
Why can't you see that ceramics is
simply a manifestation of motherly panic
Em
By making a baby that's breakable
Aren't you creating a way of translating the
G
terror of making maternal mistakes into clay
A Bm
Hiding away so you don't have to face being a bad mom
Barbara
D
That's what you've done, Barbara
E
Just make a start
Are you willing to take the next step?
Ready, set...
[BOTH]
A
Here we stand
F#m
At the end of a 10-year plan
D
A house, a yard, a minivan
A
A baby should be next
Together let's leap off the cliff
B
Fall forever, then smash to bits
D
Trapped in a terrifying viper pit
Of diapers and regret
Bm E
Are we willing to take the next step?
Ready, set...
Ready, set...
[ADAM]
F#
Not yet
[BARBARA]
Not yet
[ADAM]
D#m
Why rush?
[BARBARA]
Why rush?
[BOTH]
B
Soon enough, our hopes and our dreams will be crushed
[BARBARA]
G
But not yet!
[ADAM]
But not yet!
[BARBARA]
Em
Not now
[ADAM,spoken]
Not now
Ooohh?
No!
See?
We can't start a family in a house with creaky floorboards
[BARBARA]
You are absolutely right
D
Let's add it to the list
Am7
With the cracks in the plaster
[ADAM]
Em G
The wi-fi should be faster
[BARBARA]
Em
This sofa needs a castor
[ADAM]
D
The bathroom's a disaster!
[BARBARA]
C
What about global poverty?
[ADAM]
What about world peace?
[BARBARA]
G
Then there's the whole darn economy
[ADAM]
The whole Middle East
[BARBARA]
Bb
We should learn Mandarin
[ADAM]
Yeah!
Or Spanish at least.
[BOTH]
Ab
No habla español
G Em
Dos cervezas por favor
F
And that's all we got
And that's not a lot
Eb Bb
Do we want a bilingual household or not?
Cm
So let's go slow
F
No breaking a sweat
Cm
What's the point of having children
F
If we're covered in debt?
[BARBARA]
Cm
Now we're totally
[ADAM]
Eb
Completely
[BARBARA]
Gb
Maybe eighty percent
[ADAM]
Ab
I'd say seventy-eight
[BOTH]
Ready to take
Bb G
The next step (Yeah! Yeah! Yeah Yeah!)
Bb G
The next step (Zooby dooby dooby, dooby dop and bow!)
Bb G
The next step (Zweeby, beeby, boo-bah-bah-dee!)
Db
The next step
Ab
Ready, set let's...
Gb
See I wasn't kidding
F Bb
It's a show about death!
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