Chords for Chicago - Cell Block Tango

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_ _ And now, the six merry murderesses of the Cook County Jail, in their rendition of,
The Cellblock Tales. _ _ _ _
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Six.
_ _ Squish. _ _
Uh-uh.
_ _ Scissor up. _
Lip shits.
_ Pop.
Six.
Squish.
Uh-uh.
Scissor up. _
[A] Lip [D] shits.
_ Pop.
Six. Squish.
[G#] Uh-uh.
Scissor [C#] up.
Lip [F#m] shits.
Pop.
Six.
Squish.
[G#] Uh-uh.
Scissor [C#m] up.
Lip [F#] shits.
He had it coming.
He had it coming.
[C#] He only [F#] had himself to blame.
[B] If you'd have been there, if [Bm] you'd have seen it, [D] I betcha you wouldn't [F#] have done the [D] same.
Pop.
Six.
[G#m] Squish.
Uh-uh.
[C#] Scissor up.
Lip [F#m] shits.
Pop.
Six.
[G#] Squish.
Uh-uh.
[C#] Scissor up.
Lip shits.
_ [F#] You know how people have these little habits that come with their life?
I'm gonna get you down.
Like Bernie.
Bernie liked to chew gum.
[B] No, not chew.
[Bm] Pop. _
[D] So I came home this one day, and [F#] I'm really irritated, and I'm looking for a little bit
of sympathy, and there's Bernie, lying on the couch, drinking a beer and chewing.
[A#] No, not chew it.
[B] Pop it.
So I said to [Bm] him, I said, you pop that gum one more time.
_ [F#] _ And he did.
So I took the shotgun off the wall, and I fired it at him.
And I fired two warning shots _ into _ his [N] head. _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ I _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _ _
_ [F#m] _ met [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ [N] _
_ Ezekiel Young from Salt Lake City about two [F#] years ago, and he told me [A#] he was single.
And we hit it [B] off right away.
So we [Bm] started living together.
He'd go to work, he'd come home.
I'd fix him [F#] a drink.
He'd go to work.
He'd go to work.
He'd go to work.
He'd go to dinner.
And then I found out.
_ Single, he told me.
Single my ass.
Not only [B] was he married.
Oh, no.
[Bm] He had six wives.
[D] [B] One of those [F#] Mormons, you know?
_ So that night when he came home from work, I fixed him his drink, as usual.
_ _ _ [B]
You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic.
He had it coming, he had it coming, he took a [G] bow, I'm a red-naked bride
I [C] had to use it, I [Cm] actually had to use it, shit it [D#] was some kind of [Gm] _ _ a
Now I'm standing in the kitchen, carving up the chicken for dinner
Minding my own business, in storms my husband Wilbur in a jealous [B] rage
You've been screwing the milkman he says, he was crazy
And he kept on screaming, you've been screwing the milkman
[C]
And then he ran into my knife, he ran into [N] my knife ten times
Get _ _ _ _
[C] up in there, boop boop
[Cm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ Get a shake head
Oh, it's my niaq who I'm here to slog _ _ _
I'm not like the other girls
[C] _ I'm a ghost
[D#] I'm not a tomboy
I'm not a girl
I'm like my uncle [Gm] Sam Hawk
I'm a [D] _
[G] robot
_ I'm a human being
I'm not like my dad
Yeah, but did you do it?
Uh uh, not guilty
_ [E] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] My sister Veronica [G] and I had this double act
and my husband [Gm] Charlie traveled around [G] with us
Now for the last number in our act
we did these 20 acrobatic tricks in a row
1, 2, 3, [Gm] 4, 5
splits, spread eagles, back flips, [C] flip flops
one right after [Gm] the other
So this [C] one night before the show
we're down at the [G#] hotel Cicero
[Cm] the [D#] three of us boozing, [G#] having a few [D] laughs
[G] and we run out of ice
so I go out to get some
I come back, open the door
[Gm] and there's [G] Veronica and Charlie
doing number [Gm] 17
the spread eagle
[F#m] _ _ [N] Well, I was in such a state of shock
I completely blacked out, I can't remember a thing
It wasn't until later
when I was washing the blood off my hands
I even knew they were dead
They had a _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ cat in the car
and _ _ _ [B] a kitten in the wheel
But [Bm] if [B] I [D] had to tell [C#] me I [F#] was wrong
[D] _ _ _ _ They had it coming
They [E] had it coming
_ They had it [G]
coming
It took them all along
_ I [C] didn't do it
And then they [Cm] said if I'd done it
_ [D#] I'd do it too, [D] it [A#] was wrong
[G] I loved our lip-syncs more than I could possibly say
[Gm] [G] He was a real artistic guy
_ sensitive, a [N] painter
He was always trying to find himself
He'd go out every night looking for [G] himself
and on the way
we [C] found Ruth
Gladys, Rosemary, [D#] _ [Cm] and Irving
I guess you could say we broke up because of [C] artistic [D#] differences
[D] He [A#] saw himself [G] as alive
and I saw him dead
[C#] Ruth [C#m] the dirty bum bum bum
[A#m] I'm [D] the dirty [D#] bum [E] bum
_ [D] _ _ _ [Bm] _
They had it [B] coming
_ _ They had it coming
It took them [Gm] all along
[C] And then they said if I'd done it
I'd do it [Cm] too
_ _ _ [D#] _ _ [D] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [D#] They had [G#m] it _ _
_ [G#] coming
They had _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ [E] _ [D#] _ _ [G#] it coming
Sing _ it one more time
We have to use the quote [D#] Uncle Sam Arzomba [G#] _ Artistic differences Pop
_ _ _ [D#] Six, _ _ Squish _ _ _ _ _ _
Cicero _ Lip-sync
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