Just you wait    (video)

 

( Eliza : )

 

                   Am

1. Just you wait, 'enry 'iggins, just you wait,

                                                                   E

    you'll be sorry but your tears will be too late.

                     Dm                         G

    You'll be broke and I'll have money !

               G                           G7

    Will I help you ? Don't be funny !

                      G                                      C

    Just you wait, 'enry 'iggins, just you wait.

 

                   Cm

2. Just you wait, 'enry 'iggins 'till you're sick,

                                                                         G7

    and you screams to fetch a doctor double quick.

              Dm               G                    G                   G7

    I'll be off a second later and go straight to the theatre,

               G                                       C

    oh oh oh, 'enry 'iggins, just you wait.

 

      G#           D#

3. Ooh, 'enry 'iggins,

                   G#                                              D#

    just you wait until we're swimming in the sea,

      G

    ooh, 'enry 'iggins,

                  Cm                                         G

    and you get a cramp a little way from me.

                      Cm

    When you yell you're going to drown,

 

    I'll get dressed and go to town.

               Cm                               C#

    Oh oh oh, 'enry 'iggins, oh oh oh, 'enry 'iggins,

     G    G7   C         

    just you wait !

 

             Bb                                    F

4. One day I'll be famous, I'll be proper and prim,

             F                                     Bb

    go to St. James so often I will call it St. Jim.

            Bb                                      Cm

    One evening the King will say, Eliza, old thing,

       Gm            C                     F

    I want all of England your praises to sing.

                F              Bb          F             C#              C7          F

    Next week on the 20th of May I proclaim Eliza Doolittle Day !

                  Bb                                   F

    All the people will celebrate the glory of you,

                   F                                        Bb

    and whatever you wish and want I gladly will do.

                    Bb                               F

    Thanks a lot, King, says I, in a manner well bred,

          Gm               C7                F

    but all I want is 'enry 'iggins' 'ead.

 

       G

5. Done, says the king with stroke,

       B7                                       E

    guard, run and bring in the bloke !

                          A

    Then they'll march you, 'enry 'iggins, to the wall,

                                                                E

    and the king will tell Eliza, sound the call.

                  D          F#    Bm                        D       C#    A7

    As they lift their rifles higher, I'll shout : ready, aim, fire !

               E                           F               E

    Oh oh oh, 'enry 'iggins,  down you'll go, 'enry 'iggins.

      E     E7    A

    Just you wait !

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)    (Loewe / Lerner)