Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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He was a mean individual
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He had a heart like a bone
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He was a naturally crazy man
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And better off left alone
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Well he stopped
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one night
At a traffic light
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And when that light turned green
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He was a mean individual
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Stranded in a lim ousine
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Hey
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hey hey hey
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All the children on the street
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They come running out their
front doors
Running out their back doors
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Flying on their feet
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They said mama, oh! Papa, oh!
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See what I have seen
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There's a mean individual
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stranded in a limousine
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Then everybody
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came run ning
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Everybody said Lord, Lord!
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Everybody was gunning
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They're gonna divvy up the reward
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And then a wah wah
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wah wah wah wah wah
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A siren, a flashing light
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But the mean individual
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Had vanished in the black of night
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Hey hey hey hey
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They wondered where
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to begin
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‘Cause he left that neighborhood
Just like the rattlesnake sheds
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its skin
Verse 6
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Well they searched the roofs
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And they checked out the groups
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And they photographed the scene
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For the mean individual
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Stran ded in a limousine
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Interlude 1
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Then everybody came run ning
Verse 7
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Everybody said Lord, Lord!
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Everybody was gunning
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They're gonna divvy up the reward
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And then a wah wah
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wah wah wah wah wah
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A siren, a flashing light
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But the mean individual
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Had vanished in the black of night
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The mean individual had vanished
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in the black of night
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The mean individual had vanished in the
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black of night!
Outro 1
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