Valerie chords by
Marshall Crenshaw

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Key: G major

Intro 1

Verse 1

Valerie, you put me on the rack

Valerie, you'll give me a heart attack

You say that I'm history

Verse 2
You say I'm no good
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Then you want to be like two
babes in the wood
That's what I wouldn't call
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playing to the gallery
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I keep waiting, waiting,
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waiting for Valerie
Valerie, why don't you put that down?

Verse 3
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Valerie, you're gonna choke and drown
If you don't give up off
this junk food jag
They're gonna take you
home in a body bag
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I   can't stand to see
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one more calorie
I keep waiting, waiting,
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waiting for Valerie

Verse 4
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Well, I'm soft in the head,
and I give her hard cash
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She spends all my money
on junk and trash
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Nylon fur and plastic shoes
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And fifty- seven things she's
never gonna use
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Never, never gonna use,
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Valerie

Interlude 1

Verse 5
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She's got a figure like this, lips like that
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Red fingernails, teeth like a cat
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I know she's going to
be the ruin of me
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She's got me running on
nervous energy
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Runnin' on nervous en ergy

Verse 6
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Valerie,
she wants to move out of town
Valerie, she wants the money down
Valerie, she wants leopard skin
this and tiger skin that
Matching luggage and
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a matching hat
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I can't afford her on my salary
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Verse 7

I keep waiting, waiting, waiting for Valerie

Outro 1
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