Dr. Benway Is Operating In An Auditorium (1959) Chords

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[Verse 1]
Dr.
[C]Benway is operating in an auditorium
[Bb]filled with students.
[F]Now, boys, you[G] won't
see this operation performed
[Bb]very often.
[B]There's a reason for [Gm]that.
[G]You see, it has
[C]absolutely no medical [F]value.
[G]No one knows what the purpose
of it originally [C]was or
if it had a purpose at [G]all.
[C]Personally, I think it was a pure
artistic creation
[Gm]from the beginning.
[F]Just as a bullfighter [Dm]with his skill
and [C]knowledge extricates
himself in danger.
[B]He has himself invoked.
[F]So in thi[G]s operation the surgeon
deliberately
endanger[C]s his patient and then, with [G]incredible speed and celerity,
[F]rescues him [C]from death
at the last possible split [G]second.
[F]Did you ever see
Dr.
[C]Tetrazzini perform? [B]I say perform
advisedly because his oper
[Bb]ations were per[G]formances.
He would [D]start by
throwing a scapel across
[G]the room into the patient and [C]then make
his en[Bb]trance like a ballet dancer.
[F]His speed was
incredible.
[C]I don't give them time to d[G]ie,
he would [F]say.
[C]Tumors put him in a frenzy of [G]rage.
[C]Fucking
undisciplined cells, he would snarl,
advancing on the [Bb]tumor like a knife [F]fighter.
[G]The young [Eb]man leaps down into the operating
theat[F]er and whip[C]ping out a [Bb]scapel advances
on [G]the patient, [F]and es [G]pontaneo,
stop him before he guts my patient.
Espon[F]taneo is a bullfighting term for a member of the
[Bb]audience who leaps down into the r[F]ing,
[C]pulls out a concealed cape,
and attempts a few [F]passes with the bull before he's dragged
[Em]out of the ring.
[F]The orderly scu[B]ffle with the espontan[G]eo
is [Bb]fi nally ejected fr[F]om the hall.
The anes[G]thetist takes advantage of the con[B]fusion
to pry a large gold filling [Bb]from the patient's mouth.