Cell Block Tango original guitar chords by
Catherine Zeta-jones
Chicago

2002Pop173 views

Key: F minor•

Intro 1
Pop! Six! Squish! Uh uh! Cicero, Lipschitz!
And now, the six merry murderesses
of the Cook County Jail
In their rendition of 'The Cell Block Tango'!
Cicero, Lipschitz!
Pop! Six! Squish! Uh uh! Cicero, Lipschitz!
Pop! Six! Squish! Uh uh! Cicero, Lipschitz!
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Pop! Six! Squish!
Gm7b5 Gm7b5 
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C7#5 C7#5 2
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C7 C7 
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Uh uh! Cicero,  Lip    schitz!
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Pop! Six! Squish!
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C7#5 C7#5 2
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C7 C7 
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Uh uh! Cicero,  Lip    schitz!

Chorus 1

F

F

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C7

C7

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F

F

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He had it coming, he had it coming

C7

C7

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F

F

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F7

F7

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He only had himself to blame!

Bb

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Bbm

Bbm

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If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it

Db7

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C7

C7

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I betcha you would have done the

Interlude 1

Fm

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(same!) Pop! Six! Squish!

Gm7b5

Gm7b5

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C7#5

C7#5

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C7

C7

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Uh uh! Cicero, Lip schitz!

Fm

Fm

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Pop! Six! Squish!

Gm7b5

Gm7b5

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C7#5

C7#5

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C7

C7

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Uh uh! Cicero, Lip schitz!

Verse 1
F F 
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C7 C7 
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You know how people have these little habits
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that get you down?
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F F 
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Like... Bernie!
F7 F7 
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Bernie liked to chew gum
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Bbm/F Bbm/F 
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No, not chew, pop!
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So, I came  home this one day
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F F 
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and I'm really irritated
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F F 
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And I'm looking for a little sympathy
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and there's Bernie
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Lying on the couch,
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F F 
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drinking a beer and chewing
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Bb/F Bb/F 
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No, not chewing, popping!
So, I said to him, I said
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Db7 Db7 4
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C7 C7 
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F F 
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"You     pop that gum one more  time",
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F F 
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and he did
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F F 
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So I took the shotgun off the wall
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F F 
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and I fired two warning shots
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Into his head!

Chorus 2

F

F

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C7

C7

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F

F

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He had it coming, he had it coming

C7

C7

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F

F

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F7

F7

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He only had himself to blame!

Bb

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Bbm

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If you'd have been there, if you'd have heard it

Db7

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C7

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I betcha you would have done the

Interlude 2

Fm

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Gm7b5

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C7#5

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C7

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(same)

Fm

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Gm7b5

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C7#5

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C7

C7

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Verse 2
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(He had it coming) I met Ezekiel Young
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F F 
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from Salt Lake City about two years ago
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And he told me he was single
Bb/F Bb/F 
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And we hit it off right away
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So, we started living together
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He'd go to work, he'd come home,
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F F 
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I'd mix him a drink, we'd have dinner
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F F 
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(He had it coming) And then I found out
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Single he told me? Single my ass!
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Not only was he married, oh no!
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He       had six wives
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F F 
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One of those Mormons, you know?
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F F 
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So that night, when he came home from work
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I   mixed him his drink as usu al
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F7 F7 
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(...had himself to blame)
You know, some guys just
can't hold their arsenic!

Chorus 3
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He had it coming (pop, six)
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F# F# 2
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He had      it coming (cicero)
C#7#5 C#7#5 3
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F# F# 2
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F#7 F#7 2
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He took     a flower in its prime!
B B 2
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Bm Bm 2
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And then he used it and he abused it
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C#7#5 C#7#5 3
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C#7 C#7 4
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F#m F#m 2
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It was a murder, but not      a     crime!

Verse 3
Cicero, Lipschitz!
Now, I'm standing in the kitchen
I'm carving up the chicken for dinner
Minding my own business,
and in storms my husband
Wilbur in a jealous rage
"You been screwing the milkman!" he said
He was crazy, and he kept on screaming,
"You been screwing the milkman!"
And then he ran into my knife
He ran into my knife ten times
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Bm Bm 2
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If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it
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C#7#5 C#7#5 3
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I betcha you would have done     the

Bridge 1
F# F# 2
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(same) Mit keresek én itt?
Azt mondják, a híres lakóm lefogta a férjem,
én meg lecsaptam a fejét
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De nem igaz
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Én ártatlan  vagyok
Nem tudom, miért mondja Uncle Sam,
hogy én tettem
F#m/C# F#m/C# 2
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C# C# 4
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Próbáltam
F# F# 2
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a rendőrségen megmagyarázni,
de nem értették meg
Yeah, but did you do it?
Uh uh, not guilty!

Verse 4
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(He had it coming)
My sister, Veronica and I had this double act
And my husband, Charlie,
travel around with us
Now, for the last number in our act,
we did these 20 acrobatic tricks in a row
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One, two, three, four, five, splits,
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spread eagles, back flips, flip flops,
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one right after the other!
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So, this one night before the show
Bm Bm 2
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We're down at the hotel Cicero
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The three of us, boozing,
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C#7 C#7 4
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having a few      laughs
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And we ran out of ice,
so I got out to get some
I come back, open the door
And there's Veronica and Charlie
doing number seventeen, the spread eagle!
Well, I was in such a state of shock
I completely blacked out,
I can't remember a thing
It wasn't until later,
when I was washing the blood off my hands,
I even knew they were dead!

Chorus 4
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They had it coming (they had it coming)
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They had it coming (they had it coming)
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They had it coming all along!
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I didn't do  it (she didn't do it)
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But if I'd done  it (but if she'd done it)
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How could you tell  me
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C7 C7 
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Fm Fm 
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that I      was wrong?
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Fm/Ab Fm/Ab 3
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Db7#5 Db7#5 3
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Chorus 5
F# F# 2
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They had it coming (they had it coming)
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They had it coming (they had it coming)
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They had it coming all along
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I didn't do it (and they abused it)
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But if I'd done it
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How could you tell me
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F#m F#m 2
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that I        was   wrong?

Verse 5
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(He had it coming) I loved Alvin Lipschitz
More than I can possibly say
He was a real artistic guy,
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sensitive, a painter
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But he was always trying to find himself
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He'd go out every night looking for   himself,
and on the way
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He found Ruth, Gladys, Rosemary and Irving
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I guess you can say we broke up
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because of artistic differences
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F# F# 2
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He    saw himself as alive
And I saw him dead!
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The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum!
C#7 C#7 4
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The dirty bum,  bum, bum, bum, bum!

Chorus 6
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They had it coming (they had it coming)
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They had it coming (they had it coming)
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F#7 F#7 2
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They had it coming all along!
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'Cause if they used us,
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and they abused us
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How could they tell us
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C#7 C#7 4
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F#m F#m 2
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that we       were  wrong?

Chorus 7
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He had it coming (he had it coming)
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He had it coming (he had it coming)
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He only had himself to blame!
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If you'd have been there,
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if you'd have seen it
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I betcha you   would have done   the

Outro 1

Gm

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(same) You pop that gum one more time

Ten times

Number seventeen, the spread eagle!

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh uh! Cicero, Lipschitz!

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