Chords for Mitch Ryder - Subterranean Homesick Blues

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_ _ I [Cm] was thinking just the other day [B] that when I was a child in America school,
_ at the age of five they would teach us to sing strange songs.
_ _ _ When I was five years old my teacher taught me to sing [C#] this song. _
_ Frere [D] Jacques, Frere _ Jacques, [F#m] _ [F] tournez-vous, _ _ tournez-vous, [B] la la la la la.
You know this [E] song?
Right, okay.
Well that's what I'm talking about.
[G] _ I think [D#m] they should take the American [C] children, the five year olds now,
and [Cm] teach them the words to [A] this song.
[C#] The song is called Subterranean [B] Homesick Blues.
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_ _ _ Frere Jacques is a nasty bitch, looks a pitiful.
I'm on the pavement thinking I should go to bed.
Man and his bitch go to bed, time [A] to get off.
[Am] Said he's got a bad cough, won't be getting paid [Dm] off.
Looked out the tower, _ something's dead.
_ [A] Got no plan but to do the end.
_ Frere Jacques [Am] got a pen, hold on it's a [E] silver candle.
Don't play the scandal, it's a scandal for the scandal.
[Am] Folks just broke, they never took the handle.
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_ _ _ My cup, [Am] we put the best for the black's cup.
Talk about the heat, put the fans in the bed for the whole gap.
In a way, Macca said the men they sent must bust an early bed
or they'll send the [D] DA to look outside _ [Dm] and get hit.
[Am] Blues does cheat us, sex time fuses.
Hang around with heaters, fucking with the [Em] beaters.
Girls by the whirlpool, much more than four.
[Am] Don't follow leaders, fuck the beaters.
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_ [A] _ _ [Am] You say get well, hang around anywhere.
_ Hang a bell, hard to tell if anything is going to say.
Get back, get pumped, get riding, ride around.
You know, get bugged, going and hopping everywhere.
[Dm] Looked out the tower, shit's dead.
[Am] _ Jumped down the alleyway looking for a new bed.
Man in the boots getting tapped in the thick dead.
[E] Walked up the stairs and fell, you only [G] got 10.
[A] _ Tired, tired, you get too thick. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ You're [Am] old, keep on soaked, pants rolling.
_ Get dressed, get passed out, if need a slug's ass.
Please love, please hang tight.
Get drunk, just stood on there.
20 years of schooling, and they put you [C] on a date.
You're [Dm] going _ _ _ [F] to get hit, _ [A] walk [Am] through your tip-top.
Don't die, no, bug.
Steal it from those who tear [A] out fire [Em] holes.
Keep a clean nose, watch [E] your fang look.
[Am] Don't need a weatherman to know it's [Em] weather with [A] love. _ _ _
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