Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Well, just in case you might've worried
I was dead and gone and buried
Well, I guess it's time I set
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the record straight
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I just have to take some time to hose off
Shine my boots and dust my clothes off
Fresh my pants, get some rest,
and clean the slate
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Verse 2
Those reports of my cremation were
a gross exaggeration
'Cause no matter what
B
you might've heard or read
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I just took alone vacation,
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now I'm back in circulation
G#
C#
Gimme five, I'm alive,
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back from the dead
Interlude 1
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D#m
E
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E
Well, some
Verse 3
F#
body might've told you
That I joined a Foreign Legion
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Rode a camel off into the desert sun
You might've heard I wound up
Smokin' dope and sportin' dreadlocks
In some hippie commune,
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nothing or I've done
Verse 4
F#
You might've heard a mention I
become a hare Krishna
Bought a tambourine
B
and shaved my curly hair
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Well, the truth of the matter is,
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D#
just stop charge my bat teries
G#
Now I'm back, and that's a fact,
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back from the dead
Interlude 2
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D#m
E
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F#m
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Verse 5
B
Just when you thought it
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was safe to go to sleep
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F#
I'm looking under your bed
B
Out from the night,
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D#m
into the spotlights I lead
D#
G#
I've been bat outta hell,
back from the dead
C#
Verse 6
F#
Well, you might've heard a rumor
That I fall and broke my pelvis
You might've heard I spent
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some time in jail
You might've thought you saw me
At the Burger King with Elvis
Lord, you might've thought
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I died and went to hell
Verse 7
F#
You might've seen my picture
in the National Enquirer
B
Have looks with Jimmy Hoffa at Club Ned
Cdim
But just when you were certain
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D#
that I flopped the final curtain
G#
C#
Son of a gun, here I come,
Interlude 3
back from the dead
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B
Cdim
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D#
G#
C#
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Verse 8
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B
Yeah, just when you thought
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it was safe to go to sleep
C#
F#
I'm looking under your bed
B
Out from the night,
F#
D#
into the spotlights, I lead
D#m
G#
I've been bat outta hell,
back from the dead
C#
Verse 9
E
F#
Well, you might've thought
that you saw me
Up on stage with Buddy Holly
Patsy Cline, Jim Reed,
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and Marylin Monroe
Singin' "Baby,
Don't Get Hooked On Me"
In a cheesy lounge in Vegas
In some Dead Star impersonator show
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Verse 10
You might've thought I formed
a rock and roll band up in heaven
B
But I'd really rather do it live instead
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So get those cameras focus,
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you 'bout to see some hocus- pokus
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B
Say Shazam, here I am,
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back from the dead
Verse 11
C#
Say Shazam, alacazam, lucky damn
F#
Here I am back from the dead
Outro 1
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D
E
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