INNES NEIL - "for the benefit of mankind" Tablature

For The Benefit Of Mankind

Neil Innes

Intro*: Am


Am Dm Dm/C Dm/B
Ever since I was knee-high to a bandy dragonfly

Dm/A E
I've been asking questions, "Why?"

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For the benefit of mankind

E Am
(For the benefit of mankind)


Am
I compared the monkey's tail

Dm Dm/C Dm/B
to the flipper of the whale

Dm/A E
and the Buddhist's fingernail

Am
For the benefit of mankind

E Am
(For the benefit of mankind)


Am
For the benefit of mankind

Dm
For the benefit of mankind

E
For the anthropological technicalogical benefit of

Am
mankind



Instr*: Am


Am
I've seen pandas on the wing

Dm Dm/C Dm/B
Heard the brontosaurus sing

Dm/A E
And I've measured balls of string

Am
For the benefit of mankind

E Am
(For the benefit of mankind)

Am
I've untangled tambourines

Dm Dm/C Dm/B
Disinfected aubergines

Dm/A E
Looped a loop in submarines

Am
For the benefit of mankind

E Am
(For the benefit of mankind)


Am
For the benefit of mankind

Dm
For the benefit of mankind

E
For the abracadabrical polysyllabical benefit of

Am
mankind



Instr: Am C G Am C G Am A



A E
For the purely statistical theosophistical

G D
characteristical man in the street

F C B7 E
My proper reality universality fundamentality cannot

be beat!

B7 E
(his fundamentality cannot be beat)

B7 E
My fundamentality cannot be beat!

B7 E
(his fundamentality cannot be beat!)

Am
For the benefit of mankind

Dm
For the benefit of mankind

E
For the simply omnivorous wholly vociferous benefit of

Am
mankind

Am
For the benefit of mankind

Dm
For the benefit of mankind

E
For the anthropological technicalogical


abracadabrical polysyllabical

Am
simply omnivorous holy vociferous! benefit of mankind


HEY!




NB:
For the sections with Dm and a bass note
(eg. Dm/C, which is Dm with a C bass), Dm can be
played without the bass note all the way through.

"*" = impressive Andy Roberts guitar solo!