Benny Hill - What A World Chords

Intro = C G C G

Verse 1
           C                    F             C                  F
Now it was Christmas Day in the jailhouse the old man sat in his cell
    C                    Em         Dm               G
Put out your pudding for treacle he heard the warden yell
   C                        F       C                    F
If you want treacle on your pudding put it out without delay
     C                  Em              F               C
The old man put out his pudding and the warden took it away

Chorus
         G           C
What a world what a place 
           F            G                   C   G
Ain't you glad you're a member of the human race

Verse 2
        C                     F         C                  F
Now the folksinger came from America to sing at the Albert Hall
   C                 Em          Dm                 G              
He sang his songs of protest and fairer shares for all
   C                      F                     C                F
He sang how the poor were much too poor and the rich too rich by far
        C                 Em               F                     C  
Then he drove back to his penthouse in his brand new Rolls Royce car
   
Chorus
         G           C
What a world what a place 
           F            G                   C   G
Ain't you glad you're a member of the human race

Verse 3
    C                   F      C                 F
Now Annie's a shorthand typist working for the BBC
    C                   Em           Dm                   G
Her brother Jackie's in prison doing three years for forgery
    C                 F           C                     F
Her sister Josie's in Holloway in Dartmoor is her Uncle Jim
        C                 Em                 F                 C           
And her dad runs a pirate radio ship but she never talks about him
   
Chorus
         G           C
What a world what a place 
           F            G                   C   G
Ain't you glad you're a member of the human race

Verse 4
    C                     F       C                          F
Now three old maids had a she cat kept her indoors night and day
C                      Em                    Dm                  G   
Kept her away from the he cats thought she'd like it better that way
     C                         F           C                            F   
Then one old maid went and got married the next morning she hastened to write
  C                        Em              F            C   
A note to the others which simply said let kitty out tonight

Chorus
         G           C
What a world what a place 
           F            G                   C   G
Ain't you glad you're a member of the human race

Verse 5
        C                      F                       C                 F
Now the button was pressed the world destroyed leaving just one solitary man
           C                       Em                   Dm         G   
And at the top of the Empire State Building his lonely existence began
        C                  F                        C                         F
But his loneliness was too much so he jumped and he fell like a bird with one wing
    C                Em               F                   C
And as he passed the seventh floor he heard the telephone ring

Chorus
         G           C
What a world what a place 
           F            G                   C    C F C F C G C
Ain't you glad you're a member of the human race