Key: A
Introduction: A D E A
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I don't know what made me go out that night
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At that hour I&rsquo d normally been in bed
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But I found myself looking up at the sky
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And a very bright light straight overhead
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It flashed green, then red... Santa Claus colors
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I stood there frozen in that light
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Then I started hearing this kind of a whirl
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The lights got louder and the noise got brighter
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And I felt a sudden chill--brrr
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It was cold... I shouldn&rsquo t have gone out with a coat
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My Mom was right again
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Then this old big old spaceship floated down
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And hovered three feet above the earth
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Never been so scared in all my life
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Could&rsquo ve given spontaneous birth
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If I was a woman... and pregnant
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Then these two little guys about 4 feet tall
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Jumped off that space-age Greyhound bus
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They grabbed me by the arms and said
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"Start walking Dan, you&rsquo re coming with us."
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Abduction
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They didn&rsquo t actually speak, but I understood &lsquo em
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Telepathy
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The strapped down to this metal crate
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Took out this 35-foot-long hose
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This said, "Don't worry, this won&rsquo t hurt."
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Then they stuck that sucker up my nose
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All the way up
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I knew my nose was long, but... this was a surprise
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They examined me from head to toe
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Stuck prods in every orifice
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This cold gray box came and gave me a kiss
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Then extracted a couple of quarts of piss
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I felt dehydrated
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Then they waved this wand all around my head, said
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"Now we&rsquo re reading your brain, you see
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You got an awful lot of songs in there
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Though it seems they're all in the key of G"
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"So, what about Marilyn? That&rsquo s in D."
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They said, "D flat, actually"
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I said, "Yeah, 'cause I tune down a half a step. What about Hannibal?"
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They said, "What about Hannibal?"
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I said, "Well, technically it's in G but it's really a dropped D tuning capo&rsquo d up."
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They said, "How come you don&rsquo t play the harmonica more?"
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I said, "How come I&lsquo m in a spaceship talking to aliens about my act?"
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They said, "We&rsquo d rather talk physics, but you're illiterate there."
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Couldn&rsquo t argue
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They dropped me some place in Brazil
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Took a month to get back to the U.S.A
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When I told my friends what I&rsquo d been through
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No one believed what I had to say
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That sucked
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It's to be expected though
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Most people think "Hannibal"&rsquo s in straight tuning
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Well, my life&rsquo s back to normal now
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I do the things I always do
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But once a week I meet with twelve other folks who've been abducted too
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I tell my story, they tell theirs
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I don&rsquo t believe them, though