Key: E minor
Verse 1
Bm
F#aug
F#
There's a danger zone,
F#aug
Bm
F#aug
F#
not a stranger zone
Bm
Em
Than the little plot I walk on
C#
Bm
F#aug
F#
F#aug
that I call my home
Bm
F#aug
F#
Full of eerie sights,
Bm
F#aug
F#
weird and skeery sights
Bm
Em
Bm
Every vicious animal that creeps
D
C#
Bm
and crawls and bites!!
D
F#aug
F#
Em
G
Em
Am
A
D
G
On the Amazon, the prophylactics prowl On the Amazon,
Em
Am
D
Bm
the hypodermics howl On
G
Em
Am
the Amazon, you'll hear a scarab scowl
A
A#dim
Edim
D
A#
and sting zodiacs on the wing
G
Em
All the stalactites and vi
Am
A
D
cious vertebrae
G
Em
A
D
Hunt the stalagmites while laryngitis slay
G
Em
Am
All that parasites that come from Paraguay
A#dim
F#aug
in the spring
Hmm, hmm hmmm
C
Cm
Snarling equinox among the
G
Bm
E
rocks will seize you
A
G#
And the Fahrenheit comes out
A
F#aug
at night to freeze you
G
Em
Wild duodenum are
Am
D
lurking in the trees
G
Em
And the jungle swarms with
Am
D
green apostrophes
G
Em
A
D
G
G#
Oh, the Amazon is calling me
A
D
Bm
Em
A
On the Amazon, the pax vobiscum bite
D
Bm
Em
A
On the Amazon, the epiglottis fight
D
Bm
Em
On the Amazon, the hemispheres at night
Fdim
A
all slink where the agnostics drink
D
Bm
All the hippodromes that lie
Em
A
concealed in mud
D
Bm
Hunt the metronomes that
Em
A
live in swamp and flood
D
Bm
Em
Then the kodachromes run out and drink their blood,
Fdim
A
poor ginks
G
Gm
While velocipedes among
D
A
B
the weeds will scare you
E
Em
And the menopause with
A
hungry jaws ensnares you
D
Bm
Frenzied adenoids infest
Em
A
the hills and slopes
D
Bm
Everyone avoids the
Em
A
deadly stethoscopes
D
Bm
Em
Oh, the Amazon is calling
A
D
Bm
Em
Yes, the Amazon is calling
A
D
Bm
Em
Oh, the Amazon is call
A
D
G
A
D
ing me-ee!!
me-ee!!
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