When I Paint My Masterpiece Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][Em][D][G]
[C][G][C][G][D][G]

[Verse 1]
Oh, the streets of [G]Rome
are filled [D]with [G]rubble
Ancient foot[D]prints are everywhere
[G]You can almost think that
you're see[C]in' [G]double
On a cold, dark [D]night by
the Spanish Stairs
[G]

[Verse 2]
Got [D]to hurry on back to
my hotel [G]room
Gonna wash my [D]clothes,
scrape off all the [G]grease
Gonna lock the doors and turn my
back on the world for a while
I'll stay right [D]there 'til I paint
my masterpiece
[G]

[Verse 3]
Well, the hours I've spent
inside the Coliseum
Dodging [D]lions with that mean
and hungry [G]look
Those mighty kings of the jungle,
I could hardly stand to see 'em
I could see 'em comin',
[D]I could read their faces like a book
[G]

[Verse 4]
[D]Train wheels runnin' through
the back of my [G]memory
When [D]I ran on the hilltop following
a pack of wild [G]geese
Someday, everything is gon
[D]na be dif[G]ferent
[C]When I [D]paint,
when I paint my masterpiece
[G]

[Verse 5]
Sailin' 'round the [Cm]world full of
crimson [G]and clover
Sometimes I [Bm]feel just like [C]my
cup isn't [D]runnin' over
[G][D]

[Verse 6]
I left [G]Rome and I pulled in[D]to Brus[G]sels
On a plane ride so [D]bumpy that
it made me [G]ill
Clergymen in uniform and young
[Em]girls [G]pullin' muscles
Everyone [D]was there to meet me,
comin' down the hill
[G]

[Verse 7]
[D]Newspapermen eating can[G]dy
Had to be held [D]back by big [G]police
Someday, everything is going
[C]to be beau[G]tiful
When I paint [D]my masterpiece

[Outro 1]
[G][G][C]
[G][D][Em][D][G]