Song Title:         I'll Never Tell
Music and Lyrics:   Joss Whedon
Source : TV Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Episode Title:      Once More With Feeling (AKA Buffy the Musical)
Season:             6, Episode: 7
Original Airdate:   November 6, 2001
Written,Directed by:Joss Whedon
Transcribed by:     Jeff Burke the Bassoon Player (jeffbsn-nospam@bdkw.yi.org)
Thanks To: Jörg Plate  at  http://www.psyche.kn-bremen.de for the
             transcription script from which I gleaned the lyrics.

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I'll Never Tell
Joss Whedon


Tempo : 135 bpm
Key : G


    |F7sus4                  |F7sus4
ANYA:This is the man that I plan to entangle.

|F7sus4       |Fsus4  Ebsus2/F
Isn't he fine?

|G7sus4                   |G7sus4
 My claim to fame was to maim and to mangle.

|G7sus4       G   |G
 Vengeance was mine.



|Am7/G               |C7
 But I'm out of the biz.

   |F                |G7
The name I made I'll trade for his.

   |Am           |C
The only trouble is...

|Gsus4             |Gsus4
 I'll never tell.


      |F7sus4     Cm7/F
XANDER:She is the one,

          |Cm7/F
She's such wonderful fun,

    |Cm7/F             |Cm7/F  Cm7sus4/F
Such passion and grace.

|G7sus4
 Warm in the night

               |G7sus4
 When I'm right in her tight embrace!

|G7sus4   G     |G
 Tight embrace!



    |Csus2/G       |C7
I'll never let her go.

   |Fmaj7                 |G
The love we've known can only grow.

       |Am7                |C
There's just one thing that  -  no.

|Gsus4           |Gsus4
I'll never tell.


                          | F         |Ab13(#9)
XANDER&ANYA:'Cause there's  nothing to tell.



|G  |G   |G
A:     He snores.
X:               She wheezes.


      |G+
A:Say "housework" and he freezes.

     |G6                              |(Am7)    D
X:She eats these skeezy cheeses that I can't describe.

   |Am7
A:I talk, he breezes.

     |F/A
X:She doesn't know what pleases.

     |D                        |Am7     D
A:His penis got diseases from a Chumash tribe.


       |G |D/F#              |Em7   |G/D
X&A:The vibe     gets kind of scary.

          |C
X:Like she thinks I'm ordinary.

           |Cm
A:Like it's all just temporary.

          |D
X:Like her toes are kind of hairy.

            |Am7      D7
X&A:But it's all very well.

      |C         Eb6        G
'Cause god knows I'll never tell.



|G   |G       |G
 A:       When things get rough he

      |G+
A:Just hides behind his Buffy

     |G6
A:Now look he's gettin' huffy

           (Am7)         D
A:'Cause he knows that I know.

     |Am7
X:She clings, she's needy,

       |F/A
X:She's also really greedy

     |Am6
X:She nev-er ...            - This is
A:        His eyes are beady!

  |Am7          D
X: my verse! Hello?    She-


|G7(b9)     C7     |G7(b9)     C7
                    <A:Look at me! I'm dancing crazy!>

|G7(b9)    C7  |Bb  A Bb A    |
|G7(b9)    C7  |G7(b9)    C7  |G7(b9)    C7
|Bb  A Bb A   ||Bb  A Bb A
|G    |G+    |G6    |D
|Am   |F/A  Am6  |Am7 Am7(b5) Am7


       |G     |D/F#
X&A:You know...
                  |Em7               |G/D
X:You're quite the charmer.
A:                       My knight in armor.
            |C
X:You're the cutest of the Scoobies
           |Cm
X:With your lips as red as rubies.
          |Dsus2
X:And your firm yet supple-

          |G7(b9)    C7  |A   Dsus2  G
X;Tight em-brace!


|G   |D/F#   |Em7  |Csus2/D


|G    |G     |G
A:      He's swell.
X:                 She's sweller.
       |G+
A:He'll always be my feller.

        |G6                      C6      |(Am7) D
X:That's why I'll never tell her that I'm  petrified.


      |Am7
A:I've read this tale.

         |F/A
A:There's wedding then betrayal.

   |Am6
A:I know there'll come the day

              |Am7     D
A:I'll want to run and hide.


     |G   |D/F#             |Em7
X&A:I   lied,    I said it's easy.

    |G/D        |C   |Dsus4
X&A:      I've   tried      but there's

         |G6/9           |G
X&A:these fears I can't quell.

    |D/F#             |D/F#
X:Is she looking for a pot of gold?

        |Em7                |Em7
A:Will I look good when I've gotten old?

          |C
X:Will our lives become too stressful

        |C
X:If I'm never that successful?

        |Cm
A:When I get so worn and wrinkly

        |Cm
A:That I look like David Brinkley?

      |Am7sus4     D/A
X:Am I crazy?
A:            Am I dreamin'?


      |D7sus4/A    D7(#11)/A
X:Am I marrying a  demon?

    D/A     |D7
X&A:We could really raise the beam

             |             Am7
X&A:In making marriage a  hell!


    D  |Am7       Eb         G(add b9)|G
X&A:So  thank god I'll never tell.

    Eb/G|C          Eb         G   |G
X&A:I    swear that I'll never tell.

  |G     Eb          G      |G
X:       My lips are sealed.

  |G     Eb          G      |G
A:       I take the fifth.

|5/4 Eb         G    Eb        G
X:   Nothin' to see. Move it along.

|4/4 G(add b9)  |C          Eb   |G      ||
X&A:             I'll never...    tell!



Source: Jeff Burke the Bassoon Player (jeffbsn-nospam@bdkw.yi.org)
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