***Song***

  
  G            F           G                  F     G
      Turn the lights down,       turn up the music,
              (Way down    ...low!)          (Hi as Fi can go!)
          F            G
  All the gang's here,
         (Everyone you know!)
  D                                   C
                               It's a crazy scene, oo - hoo!
     (Hey, there! Just look over your shoulder!)
  G           F         G                  D         C
      Get the picture?     No, no,         yes----!
                                  (No, no, no---!)
  G           F            G
      Walk a tight-rope,
       (Your tight side - line!)
  G                F            G
            Such a bright hope,
    (Right  place, right     ...time!)
  G               F         G
      What's your number?
                 (Never you  ...mind!)
  G                                  D
       Take a powder!
  (But hang on a minute! What's that coming 'round the corner?)
                     C
                     Woo -hoo!
  (Woo -oo -oo -oo!)
  G              F       G                   D        C
      Have you a future?     No, no,         yes---!
                                    (No, no, no----------!)


                  F
  Well, I've been up all night again,
  C                      G
  Party-time wasting is  ...too much fun,
          F                     C
  Then I step back thinking of life's inner mean - ing,
          G
  And my    ...latest fling,
           F               C
  It's the same old story, all love and glory,
         G
  It's a pantomime,
             F                    C
  If you're looking for love in a looking-glass world,
               G
  It's pretty   ...hard to find!
   
      F
  Oh, mother of pearl,
  C                            G
  I wouldn't trade you for a - nother girl,
       F                       C
  Di - vine intervention, al - ways my intention,
         G
  So I    ...take my time,
             F                    C
  I've been looking for something I've always wanted,
          G                        F
  But was never mine, but now I've seen that something,
       C                           G
  Just out of reach, glowing, very  ...Holy Grail!
   
      F                 C                 G
  Oh, mother of pearl, lustrous lady of a sacred world,
        F                     C
  Thus, even Zarathustra, a - nother time-loser,
             G                        F
  Could be - lieve in you, with every goddess a let down,
        C                      G
  Every idol a bring down, it  ...gets you down,
          F
  But the search for perfection,
       C                     G
  Your own predilection goes on, and on, and on, and on!
   
        F
  Can - adian Club love,
    C                             G
  A place in the country, every - one's ideal,
              F                  C
  But you are my favorita, and a place in your heart, dear,
            G
  Makes me   ...feel more ...real!
   
      F
  Oh, mother of pearl,
  C                             G
  I wouldn't change you for the  ...whole world,
         F
  You're highbrow holy,
        C                       G
  With lots of soul, melancholy  ...shimmering,
        F                     C
  Ser - pentine sleekness was always my weakness,
          G
  Like a  ...simple tune,
      F             C                        G
  But no dilettante filigree fancy beats the ...plastic you!
   
       F                     C
  Ca - reer-girl cover, ex - posed,
                          G
  And another slips right into view,
      F                     C
  Oh, looking for love in a looking-glass world,
             G                    F
  Is pretty ...hard for you,  few throw-away kisses,
      C                       G
  The boomerang misses, spin  ...'round, and around,
          F
  Fall on feather bed quilted,
  C                               G
  Faced with silk softly stuffed  ...eiderdown,
       F
  Take refuge in pleasure,
       C                               G
  Just give me your future, we'll for   - get your past!
   
      F
  Oh, mother of pearl,
  C                      G
  Submarine lover in a   ...shrinking world,
      F
  Oh, lonely dreamer,
       C                          G
  Your choker provokes a picture  ...cameo,
      F
  Oh, mother of pearl,
       C                         G
  So - so semi-precious in your  ...detached world,
      F
  Oh, mother of pearl,
  C                            G
  I wouldn't trade you for a - nother girl!
   
      F
  Oh, mother of pearl,
  C                            G
  I wouldn't trade you for a - nother girl,
      F
  Oh, mother of pearl,
  C                            G
  I wouldn't trade you for a - nother girl!
      F
  Oh, mother of pearl,
  [no chords]
  I wouldn't trade you for another girl!