Bb
Bring your own lampshade - somewhere there's a party.
 Cm
Here, it's never-ending; can't remember when it started.
 Bb
Pass around the lampshade. There'll be plenty enough room in jail.

[Chorus]
   Cm
If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever -
    C                                                         Bb
if being strong's your kind, then I need help here with this feather.
    Gm                                       D#
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
         Cm                     Bb
at the swingin' party down the line.

[Verse]
 Bb
Pound the prairie pavement, losing proposition,
 Cm
quittin' school and goin' to work and never goin' fishing...
 Bb
water all around; I never learned how to swim, now.

[Chorus]
   Cm
If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever -
    C                                                         Bb
if being strong's your kind, then I need help here with this feather.
    Gm                                       D#
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
         Cm                     Bb    Gm
at the swingin' party down the line...
         Cm                     Bb
at the swingin' party down the line.

[Verse]
 Bb
Bring your own lampshade - somewhere there's a party.
 Cm
Here, it's never-ending; can't remember when it started.
 Bb
Pass around the lampshade. There'll be plenty enough room in jail.

[Chorus]
   Cm
If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever -
    C                                                              Bb
if being strong is what you want, then I need help here with this feather.
    Gm                                       D#
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
         Cm                     Bb    Gm
at the swingin' party down the line...
         Cm                     Bb
at the swingin' party down the line.