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1. DO YA
Intro
E B A guitar only*
E B A guitar only
E B A bass & guitar 2
E B A…… drums

Verse
E B A B
In this life I've seen ev'rything I can see, woman
E B A B
I've seen lovers flying through the air hand in hand
E B A B
I've see babies dancin' in the midnight sun
E B A B
I've seen dreams that came from the heavenly skies above
E B A B
I've seen old men cryin' at their own grave sides
E B A
And I've seen pigs all sittin' watchin' picture slides
A A A A
But I never seen nothin' like you

Chorus
E B A B
E B A B
Do ya, do ya want my love?
E B A B
Do ya, do ya want my face?
E B A B
Do ya, do ya want my mind?
E B A B
Do ya, do ya want my love?

Verse 2
Well, I heard the crowd singin'. . . playin' with their guns
But I never heard nothin' like you
E B A .........

Bridge
E B D
In the country where the sky Touches down on the field
A E
She lay her down to rest in the mornin' sun
E B D
They came -a-runnin' just to get a look Just to feel,
A E
to touch her long black hair, They don't give a damn

Intro (minus first line)

Chorus
Verse 3 (REMOVED. Drum fill instead.)
Chorus

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2. HOT ONE
Intro (guitar only)
Am Am/G F| | Am Am/G F| |x2
Well, you're the
Verse 1 (drums & bass in)
Am Am/G F| | Am Am/G F| |
grand one Have you noticed? When you walk in all the fairy boys are very nervous

C G/B |Am G|F |

Well, my starship doesn't want me, and neither does his world I'm glad I caught you on my view screen, sailor, You're
the

Verse 2
Am G |F | Am G F| |
grand one, Come and court me 'Cause this wooing is what I'm wanting When

C Bm |Am F| F| F-G
my spacesuit comes to warm me And hold me like a god I am the captain of the gravity, Max- well

G || to chorus
Everywhere I see your faces

Chorus 1
C |F |C |F
Hot one From a starship over Venus to the Sun But it's a

C A/C# |Dm |F (two measures after C1 and C3)

crime You're mistaken Momentary seizure of love - oh love

Verse 3
Well, you're the grand one But, darling, I'm a mess
I've got human minds we can form But the boys are not impressed
When my spacesuit comes to warm me Just hold me like a god
I'll be the captain of the gravity, Maxwell
I see your faces in the strangest places

Chorus 2
Hot one
From a starship over Venus to the Sun
But it's a crime
You're mistaken
Momentary seizure of love - oh love (only one measure of F)

Chorus 3
Hot one Outro
From a starship over Venus to the Sun Double F measure
But it's a drag Stop drums
You're so mean AGF
Destroying my belief in, in love - oh love

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3. CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE
Intro Verse 1 Chorus Verse 2 Chorus Solo Chorus Chorus

Intro

Verse 1
C E Am Am7 Am
So you think I have an evil mind well I`ll tell you honey
Dm7 Am G Dm7 Am G
and I dont know why , and I dont know why
C E Am Am7 Am
So you think my singing out of time , well it makes me money
Dm7 Am G Dm7 Am G Am G
And I dont know why , and I dont know why ...Any more oh no

Chorus
C G Am C G Am
So cum on feel the noize , Girls grab the boys
Dm7 Am G Dm7 Am G
we`ll get wild wild wild , we`ll get wild wild wild
C G Am C G Am
So cum on feel the noize , Girls grab the boys
Dm7 Am G (stay on G)
we`ll get wild wild wild , at your door

Verse 2
C E Am
So you think i`ve got a funny face , well it ain't no worry
Dm7 Am G Dm7 Am G
and I dont know why , and I dont know why

C E Am
Say I a dog well now it`s no disgrace, and I`m in no hurry
Dm7 Am G Dm7 Am G Am G
and I dont know why , and I dont know why Any more oh no

repeat Chorus

then............. [C G Am] x2 Dm7 G

Verse 3 removed

Guitar solo over chorus

Chorus (vocals only)

Chorus (everyone over the top)

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4. SIXTEENS
Verse
D + RIFF x2
D

F# G F#
Where were you in sixty-eight, in sixty-eight Julie was Johnnie's date.
F# G F#
Two kids growin' together Livin' each day as if time was slippin' away.
G F#
Oh, they were just sixteen and their love a teenage dream.
G F#
They passed the time, they crossed the line, the line that ran between.
G A
Julie and Johnnie now you've made it!

Chorus
D G A7 D
But life goes on, you know it ain't easy.
G A7
You've just gotta be strong
D
if you're one of the sixteens.
D G A D
And life goes on, you know, you know it ain't easy
G
You know you'll never go wrong
A D
'Cause you're aaaa-aa-all, part of the sixteens.

Verse 2
D + RIFF x2
D

F# G
Suzie and Davey got to make the big time, maybe they can,
F# G F# F#
put it all together, in a show that lasts forever?
G F#
Oh they would walk the strip at nights And dream they saw their name in lights
G F#
On Desolation boulevard they'll light the faded light
G A
Suzie and Davey you can make it!

Chorus

Solo on modified verse

F# G F# F#
F# G F# F#
F# G A

Chorus

Chorus (double time)

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5. IT AIN'T EASY

INTRO
Dsus4/A - A

Verse 1
When you climb to the top of the mountain Look out over the sea
Think about the places perhaps where a young man could be
Then you jump back down to the rooftops Look out over the town
Think about all of the strange things circulating round

CHORUS 1
G A G A
It ain't easy, it ain't easy
C D A
It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down

Verse 2
Well all the people have got their problems That ain't nothing new
With the help of the good Lord we can all pull on through
We can all pull on through Get there in the end
Sometimes it'll take you right up and sometimes down again

CHORUS 2

Solo (4 X Intro chords)

Verse 3
Satisfaction, satisfaction, Keep me satisfied
I've got the love of a Hoochie Coochie woman she calling from inside
She's a-calling from inside, Trying to get to you
All the woman really wants you can give her something too

CHORUS x 3

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6. LOVE GUN
Intro
Riff
E C E C

Verse 1
E
I really love you baby I love what you've got
C D E
Let's get together, we can Get hot

No more tomorrow, baby Time is today

C D E
Girl, I can make you feel Okay
A D E
No place for hidin' baby

No place to run
A D E riff
You pull the trigger of my

Chorus
E C
Love gun, (love gun), love gun
E C
Love gun, (love gun), love gun

Verse 2
You can't forget me baby…

Chorus

SOLO (on riff)

Chorus x 2

Outro (same as intro)

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7. LUST FOR LIFE
A
Here comes Johnny Yen again
E
With the liquor and drugs
And a flesh machine
He's gonna do another strip tease

A
Hey man, where'd you get that lotion?
I've been hurting since I bought the gimmick
E
About something called love
Yeah, something called love
Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens

G
Well, I'm just a modern guy
D
Of course, I've had it in the ear before
E
'Cause of a lust for life
A
'Cause of a lust for life

Drums x 2

A x 2

A
I'm worth a million in prizes
E
With my torture film
Drive a G.T.O.
Wear a uniform
All on a government loan

A
I'm worth a million in prizes
Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk
E
No more beating my brains
No more beating my brains
With the liquor and drugs
With the liquor and drugs

G
Well, I'm just a modern guy
D
Of course, I've had it in the ear before
E
'Cause, of a lust for life (lust for life)
A
'Cause of a lust for life (oooo)
I got a lust for life (oooh)
E
Got a lust for life (oooh)
Oh, a lust for life (oooh)
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 A
Oh, a lust for life (oooh)
A lust for life (oooh)
E
I got a lust for life (oooh)
Got a lust for life

G
Well, I'm just a modern guy
D
Of course, I've had it in the ear before
E
'Cause I've a lust for life
A
'Cause I've a lust for life.

A
Well, here comes Johnny Yen again
E
With the liquor and drugs
And a flesh machine
I know he's gonna do another strip tease

A
Hey man, where'd ya get that lotion?
Your skin starts itching once you buy the gimmick
E
About something called love
Oh, love, love, love
Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens.

G
Well, I'm just a modern guy
D
Of course, I've had it in the ear before
E
'Cause I've a lust for life (lust for life)
A
'Cause I've a lust for life (lust for life)
Got a lust for life
Yeah, a lust for life
E
I got a lust for life
Oh, a lust for life
Got a lust for life
Yeah a lust for life
A
I got a lust for life
Lust for life
Lust for life
Lust for life

E
Lust for life
Lust for life

[Fade]
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8. I’MAMAN
[Intro & verse]
F#m E A (E B) F#m E A (E B)

I maman
So I'm an elegant man
I'm a man
Clara bowes and open toes Are what I am

Yes I maman
Yea I'm a fragile man
I'm a man
Light of step and soft of touch A gentle man

[Chorus]
A#m G# F#sus4 A#m G# F#sus4

A#m G# F#sus4 E A (E B)

You know I could love you

But if I should love you
Then I would love you The way a man loves a woman
And live my life like been livin' it
My body claims my mind and soul so

[Verse]
let me be What I am
An elegant man

Yes I maman
So I'm a graceful man
I'm a man
Pierrots and spaceous clothes Are what I am

[Solo]

[Chorus] [Verse]
You know I could love you let me be
But if I should love you, then I would love you What I am
The way a man loves a woman An elegant man
And live my life like been livin' it Yes I maman
My body claims my mind and soul so and I could love you
[…]Last chord F#major

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9. MIDNIGHT RADIO
Guitar only
F C F C G

Am F C G7
Rain falls hard burns

Am F C F
Dry Dream or a song That hits you so

C F C F C (hold)
Hard Filling you up And suddenly gone....
Bass & drums in
Am F C G7
Breathe Feel Love Give

Am F C F
Free Know in your soul Like your blood knows
the

C F C F C (hold)
Way From your heart to ur brain Knows that you’re
whole… and you're

F Am Dm G C (hold)
shining like the brightest star a trans mission on the midnight radi- -o
… and you're

F Am Dm G C (hold)
spinning like a 45 baller- ina Dancing to your rock and roll … Here's to

Am F C G7
Patti and Tina and Yoko and Aretha and

Am F C F
Nona and Nico and me And all the strange rock and

C F C F
rollers You know you're doing all right So hold on to each

C F C C
other You gotta hold on tonight … and you're
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F Am Dm G C (hold)
shining like the brightest star a trans mission on the midnight radi- -o
… and you're

F Am Dm G
spinning your new 45s all the misfits and the losers well you

E Am Am/G F Ab rit C (hold…….)

know you’re rock and rollers Spinning to your rock and roll.

Ab C
(Hands, lift up your hands) *Lift up your 4

Ab F C repeat this section…end on F

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10. REBEL REBEL

Intro: D E

Verse
D E
You’ve got you mother in a whirl
D E
shes not sure if you’re a boy or a girl
D E
hey babe your hair’s alright
D E
hey babe lets go out tonight
D E
you like me and I like it all
D E
we like dancing and we look divine
D E
you love bands when they play it hard
D E
You want more and you want it fast

Bridge
A
They put you down
D
They say im wrong
Bm
You tacky thing
E
You put them on

Chorus
D E
Rebel rebel you’ve torn your dress
D E
Rebel rebel your face is a mess
D E
Rebel rebel how could they know
D E
hot tramp I love you so

REPEAT WHOLE THING

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Rubber Peacock Script
By Richard Butner

TWINK (J)
Once upon a time there was a little person named Jojo.
Now, Jojo's parents, who were potato farmers, thought that Jojo was a little
girl.
They wanted Jojo to act like a little girl.
But Jojo wasn't a little girl.
Gender is more complicated than that, but in the town of West Armpit,
where Jojo grew up, they didn't know such things.

But let me back up, I'm getting ahead of myself.

I am Twinkerbell, the spirit of goodness and niceness and helpful narration.
Twink, for short.
You might think it odd that a grown woman with a pixie haircut is named
Twink, instead of, say, a smooth young boy with no body hair?
But that won't be the first odd thing that happens tonight, Children!
Anyway.
One night, after a long day of working in the potato patch, Jojo curled up
and went to sleep, and went to that best of places, Dreamland.
There Jojo was visited by two spirits from Dimension Q, the Queer
Dimension....

1. DO YA? (Nancy & Mykal)

Jojo wakes up from the dream.

JOJO (Jenn)
Yes, yes, I want your love!
And your face, and your mind!
I want all these things, and more!

TWINK
But Jojo could not have these things, not living in the culturally depressed
heteronormative, potato-farming town of West Armpit.
Jojo would have to venture to the metropolis of Glitter City to find the love
Jojo deserved.
But Jojo did not know if Jojo was worthy enough, or grand enough, to go
on this journey.

JOJO
How do I even get to Glitter City from here?

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TWINK
And that's when something magical happened.
(It wouldn’t be the last time something magical happened to Jojo,
Children!)
Marlene Dietrich appeared!
Marlene Dietrich, star of such classic movies as Der Blaue Engel and
Morocco!  
Nazi-fighting bisexual cabaret powerhouse clad in a top hat, tails and
trousers.
Marlene Dietrich was not messing around.

MARLENE (Dana)
Yes, Jojo, you are worthy.
You are grand.
You are what we, in The Industry, call a "hot one."

2. HOT ONE (Dana)

TWINK
Jojo was now a believer.
Jojo packed up and prepared to leave for Glitter City.
Jojo had no means of transportation, though.
Hitch-hiking was the only option.
The potato trucks passed by without stopping.
Buses, minivans, scooters, sedans, coupes, and convertibles, none of
these stopped either.
But then a man on a motorcycle slowed and pulled over to where Jojo
stood with thumb extended.
This man was none other than Glenn Hughes, the leather man from
seminal dance band The Village People.
Glenn came from a mysterious time known only to us now as "The
Seventies."
In the 70s, straight people did not understand what Village People songs
such as "YMCA," "Macho Man," and "In the Navy" were really about.
(Jeepers, half the straight people now probably don't understand what
these songs are about, Children!)
But Jojo felt an immediate kinship with this man of leather and significant
body hair.
His motorcycle was a great beast that Jojo clambered aboard, a great
noisy beast, and indeed Glenn encouraged Jojo to come on and feel its
noise.

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3. CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE (JEFFREY)

TWINK
But then, after giving Jojo a ride many miles toward Glitter City, the
Leather Man from the Village People had to return to the 1970s.

GLENN
(Improvised lines here. “Take some advice from your leather daddy and
follow your dreams all the way to Glitter City, Jojo,” etc.)  

TWINK
And so Jojo ambled along alone on highway 69, until Jojo happened upon
two women.
Why, it was old friends Martina Navratilova and Sappho of Lesbos.
Sappho, whose poems about the attraction of women to other women give
us the words “Sapphic” and “Lesbian”, was composing a poem of praise to
Martina for being the first world-class pro athlete to come out of the closet
voluntarily.
Martina in turn was praising Sappho for writing such lines as:
Once again Love, that loosener of limbs
Bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing
Seizes me.
Who among us has not been seized by that crawling thing called love?
Why were a record-breaking tennis player and the greatest female artist of
ancient times wandering somewhere between West Armpit and Glitter
City?
You’re asking the wrong questions, Children!
So there they were.
Whever you go: There you are.

4. THE SIX TEENS (SHEA & BRONWYN)

JOJO
Thanks for the advice, Ladies!

TWINK
Jojo was tired of what seemed like endless wandering.
JOJO wished for a rocket that could speed Jojo to Glitter City and destiny.
And that's when astronaut Sally Ride showed up.
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, and the first astronaut
known to be LGBT.  
A posthumous receiver of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Yes, like many of the icons of queer history who visited Jojo on this

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journey, Sally Ride is no longer with us in the mortal world.
But she resides in Dimension Q, the Queer Dimension, and told Jojo that
even when you have access to a rocket, the journey is not always easy.

5. IT AIN’T EASY (Anastasia)

TWINK
Are you discerning a theme, Children?
Being gay “ain’t” easy.
But, boy oh boy, it’s worth the hassle!
Jojo wandered on, buoyed up by all the hot inspiration, but still feeling
aimless and unloved.

JOJO
I've been cheated, and been mistreated.
When will I be loved?

TWINK
It sounded like a Linda Ronstadt song was about to break out, but NO!
That was not to be. Instead, four figures appeared.
They were, by strange coincidence Bayard Rustin, Angela Davis, Audre
Lorde, and Durham's own Pauli Murray.

JOJO
Why are all those folks hanging out together?

TWINK
Ponder this, Children.
And now: Let it go!
Bayard Rustin: organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and mentor to
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a proponent of nonviolence and an openly gay
man living in a violently homophobic time.
Angela Davis, activist, Black Panther, professor, political prisoner.
Audre Lorde, writer and proponent of the theory of intersectionality of
oppression.
Durham's own Pauli Murray: educator, activist, priest, and in Pauli's own
words a "man forced to occupy a woman's body."
And they were all about to sing a KISS song together!
It beggared belief.
But in Dimension Q: it happened, just the same.

6. LOVE GUN (Jessica F, KK, Jessica H, Tom)

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TWINK
The mighty ballistic power of all that love overcame Jojo.
Jojo fainted dead away as Bayard, Audre, and Pauli returned to Dimension
Q, and Angela Davis returned to the far-off state of California.
Jojo, wake up! (Vivica as Bette Midler enters, walks over to Jojo and
nudges Jojo with the toe of one of her high heels. Jojo remains lifeless.)  
Oh, children, look, it's the Divine Miss M, Bette Midler. The diva of the
bathhouse! Let's all clap our hands and stomp our feet and help Bathhouse
Betty wake Jojo up!  

CLAP YOUR HANDS… (Vivica)

Jojo wakes up again (can happen mid-song)  

JOJO
This is kind of a downer.
So many of these icons of queer history who look down on me from
Dimension Q are dead.

HARVEY (Dale)
Here kid, let me help you up.

TWINK
It was Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay politicians elected to public
office.
Harvey Milk, city supervisor of San Francisco in the 1970s, an advocate
not just for gay rights but for affordable childcare and low-cost housing, for
labor and for small businesses.

JOJO
Hey, aren't you Harvey Milk?

HARVEY
That’s right, Jojo.

JOJO
You're not just dead, you were assassinated.
That's terrible!

HARVEY
Yes, it was a bummer, and it was tragic.
And that's why we should all, for whatever amount of time we have on this
earth, show a lust for life.

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Just like my friend Iggy Pop always says (rips off jacket to reveal Iggy
physique).

7. LUST FOR LIFE (Dale)

TWINK
And then, full of lust for life and whatever it might bring, Jojo stopped into a
bathhouse on the outskirts of Glitter City, and ran into one last improbable
(but in this case, living) gay celebrity.
It was Barry Manilow, Children!
Now, Barry Manilow wasn't out for a reeeeeeeeeally long time.
Like, not until this year!
Really more of a glass closet type thing.
Like Anderson Cooper, or Jodie Foster, or Liberace.
But there was Barry, playing piano and singing in the bathhouse just as he
did for Bette Midler in gay bathhouses in the early 1970s.
Remember the 70s, Children?
(Of course you don’t)
Barry wrote all of those songs like, "I Write the Songs." (Barry whispers in
Twink's ear.)  
Well, silly me, actually he didn't write the song "I Write the Songs."
That was Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys.
Oh, Barry.
We still love you.

I WRITE THE SONGS (Kristen)

TWINK
Jojo learned many things in the bathhouse.
Jojo learned that gender is well, complicated.
It's sort of a social construct, but it's not really completely a social
construct. It's nature and nurture and some other things that maybe we
don't all quite understand just yet down here, marooned down here, far
from Dimension Q.

8. I’M A MAN (Jenn)

TWINK
And so Jojo made it to Glitter City, and Jojo’s quest was at an end.
No, wait, it was only beginning.
Because there Jojo was visited by one final spirit.
Not an icon of LGBTQ history, no, but something else entirely.
It was the Queer of the Future, who had taken time out from having brunch
in the Future to travel back to take Jojo up into Dimension Q, the Queer

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Dimension.
I can't say more about Dimension Q, nor about the Queer of the Future,
except to say that, who knows, maybe the powerful and creative Queers of
the Future are somewhere here with us tonight, maybe in the audience,
maybe not knowing yet just how powerful and creative they are?
Maybe They are… (echoing with reverb) YOU…

9. MIDNIGHT RADIO (Jaybird)  

Encore: 10. REBEL REBEL (All)  

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