Whistling Past The Graveyard chords by Screamin' Jay Hawkins

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Coming  (A minor) in on a night train
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 (E major) with  (A minor) an armful of boxcars
On the wings of a magpipe
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 (E major) across  (A minor) a    hooligan night
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Bus (E major) ted  (A minor) up a chaperone
way out by the
Kokomo
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Cooked  (E major)  (A minor) up   a mess of
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Mulligan an (E major) d  got  (A minor) into a fight
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Whistling  (F major) past the
Grey
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John, step (E major) pin' on a crack
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I'm a  (F major) mean mother -hubba,
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top of  (E major) a one -eyed jack
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You've probably seen me  (A minor) sleepin'
out by the railroad tracks
Ask the prince of darkness about the
smoke from the stack
Sometimes I kill a jackal and
suck out all the blood
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Steal  (E major)  (A minor) myself a station wagon,
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 (E major) drive  (A minor) it into the mine
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Whist (F major) lin' past the graveyard,
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 (E major) steppin' on a crack
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I'm a  (F major) mean mother -hummer popper,
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one  (E major) -eyed jackal
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I know  (A minor) you've seen my head (E major) light
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and the  (A minor) honkin' of my horn
I'm calling out my bullhounds,
chase the devil out the corn
Last night I cracked the
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Mississippi,  (E major)  (A minor) and  now it's dry as a bone
I was born in a taxicab,
I ain't never going home
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Twistin'  (E major)  (F major) past the graveyard,
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 (E major) steppin' on a crack
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I'm a mean  (F major) mother -hubba -hubba,
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 (A minor) one  -eyed  (E major) jack
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My eye (A minor) s have seen the glory
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of  (E major) the  (A minor) draining of the ditch
I'm coming to
Baton
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Rouge  (E major) to find  (A minor) myself a witch
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I'm  (E major) gonna switch  (A minor) me a couple of them
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Every time it rains,  (E major) you  (A minor) gotta see a locomotive,
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 (E major) probably think  (A minor) it's a train
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 (F major) Whistlin' past the graveyard,
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 (E major) steppin' on a crack
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I'm a mean  (F major) mother -hubba -bub (A minor) ba,
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 (E major) one -eyed jack  (A minor) 
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 (E major)  (A minor)  (F major)  (E major)  (F major) 
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 (E major)  (A minor) 
What you think is sunshine is
just a twinkle in my eye
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 (E major) I got  (A minor) a    ring around my
finger called the 4th of
July
When I get lonesome,
a tear falls from my cheek
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There's gonna be an ocean  (E major) in
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the middle  (A minor) of   the week
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Whist (F major) lin' past the graveyard,
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step (E major) pin' on a crack
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Mean  (F major) mother huffer popper,  (E major) one -eyed jack
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I come in  (A minor) on   the night train
with an armful of boxcars
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On the wings of a mag (E major) pie
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across  (A minor) a hooligan night
I'm gonna tear off a rainbow
and wear it for a tie
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I never told the truth so how  (E major) 
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in the hell  (A minor) could I tell a lie
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Whist (F major) lin' past the graveyard,
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 (E major) steppin' on a crack
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I'm a mean  (F major) mother -hover -popper,
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one  (E major) -eyed jack  (A minor) 
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