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Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight

Key: C

Introduction: D    G    C    Am    

difficulty
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F                                                                                                              C  
This here is the place where I will be staying
                F  
There isn't a number, you can call the pay phone
C                                                                                      F  
Let it ring a long long long long time
                                                                             Am                                                    C                              F                            C  
If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more,    Ohhhhhhh...
        F                                                                                                         Am                                                                            C  
If I don't pick up, pick up, the sidewinder sleep, sleep, sleeps in a coil
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  C/E  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
          Em/B  
Ohhhh.....
                                             F  
There are scratches all around the coin slot
                     C                                                                                      F  
Like a heartbeat baby trying to wake up
                                                                     C  
But this machine can only swallow money
                                                                          F  
you can't lay a patch by computer design
                                     Am                                                         C  
Just a lot of stupid, stupid signs
F                         C  
Tell her
F                                                              C                                                                                                 F  
Tell her she can kiss my ass, then laugh and say that you were only kidding.
                                                                                  Am                                                                            C  
That way she'll know that it's really, really, really, really me, me.
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  C/E  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
          Em/B  
Ohhhh.....
  F  
Baby, instant soup doesn't really grab me.
             C                                                                                                                                    F  
Today I need something more sub - s(tub) - sub - substantial.
                                                                                                                C  
A can of beans or black-eyed peas, some Nescafe and ice
          F                                                                            Am                                                 C  
A Candy bar, a fallen star, or a reading from Doctor Suess
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  C/E  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
          Em/B  
Ohhhh.....
(brigde)
Bm                                                                         Am  
The cat in the hat came back, wrecked a lot of havoc on the way.
Bm                                                                                      Am  
  Always had a smile and a reason to pretend,
                          Bm                                                                                              Am  
But their world has flat backgrounds and little need to sleep, but to dream
C                                            Em  
  The sidewinder sleeps on his back.
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  C/E  
        I can always sleep standing up.    Call me when you try to wake her
          Em/B  
Ohhhh.....
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  
        Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
D              G                 C                 G/B                              Am  C/E  
        I can always sleep standing up.    Call me when you try to wake her
     C/E                                                            Em/B         D  
We've got to moogie moogie move on this one

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