Key: Eb major
Verse 1
Em
Bm
Em
Bm
Am
Em
Bm
Em
Bm
Am
Em
Holly made the rules
Holly
Am
F#dim
She laid down all the laws
G
Am
Then broke the one she made
G
Most folks would be afraid
C
Em
to play the games that
Am
Holly played
Em
When she was seventeen,
Am
F#dim
F#m
G
Am
she ran away from home as fast as she could run
G
Dsus4
said home was just no fun there was
Em
F
an awful lot of doing to be done
G
Dsus4
Ooh, holly on a cloud in the sky
G
Dsus4
Way above the cloud flying high
G
Dsus4
Ooh, holly on a cloud in the sky
G
Yeah, way above the
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cloud flying high
Em
Holly made the scene,
Am
F#m
F#dim
G
Am
she's gone to every place she never should have been
G
C
She was hanging in, couldn't tell her
Em
G
Em
G
Am
nothin' been
Em
Esus4
Am
Strangers in the night have paid
F#dim
G
a handsome price to sleep in
Am
Holly's bed
G
Dsus4
She couldn't see that far ahead to know that
Em
F
she would become one of the living dead
G
Dsus4
Holy on a cloud in the sky
G
Way above the cloud that I'm
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G
Dsus4
G
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high
Em
Honey was confused,
Am
F#dim
G
Am
she did some things that even she could not explain
G
Oh, now she's so in pain
Dsus4
Em
The devil runnin' through her vein
F
G
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G
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s
How could
G
F
Holly make such a great mistake
G
To think that she could beat the
Rat in just
F
one playing?
It never happened.
G
Dsus4
I'll lay on a cloud in the sky,
G
Dsus4
way above the cloud, high above the sky
G
Dsus4
I'll lay on a cloud in the sky,
G
life is dancing high
Dsus4
Life is dancing,
G
Dsus4
life is dancing, life is dancing
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