Chords for Chris Smither Crocodile Man 2003 Manningtree UK

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_ _ _ _ _ I'm a crocodile [G] man.
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Mama raised me on a railing and a trance.
Just sat back, chattin' and a little bit of quiet time.
That's all that's true.
_ [Bb] _ _ [G] I never had a smile.
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_ _ _ [Gm] People said Papa [G] wasn't Noah's Calvary anyway.
People said [Gm] Papa was a lowland stone.
I turned 20 on a walk on my freeway.
Henry [C] Beverly.
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[Bb] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [C] I've been sleeping with a stranger in a no [G]-name town.
Thanksgiving dinner at the Top Hat Lounge.
Christmas Eve at the [Bb] Fantasy Tannin.
Lord have [G] mercy on the crocodile man.
_ _ _ [Bb] Lord have mercy.
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_ _ [G] _ [C] Lord have mercy on the crocodile. _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] [Bb] I hooked up with [G] a carny,
a little [Bb] adamantous,
layin' in the sideshow, pettin' in the jar.
People that [C] joke and shake [Eb] down presents.
Rats don't [G] move in the rubber seat cars.
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_ _ _ A rat will be a [Gm] gator up in Omaha City.
A duck may be another down in New Orleans.
Tangle with the barker, run off with the kitty.
I crawled to [G] Mississippi and I got away. _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] I've been sleeping with a stranger in a no-name [G] town.
Thanksgiving dinner at the Top Hat Lounge.
Christmas Eve at the [Gm] Fantasy Tannin.
Lord have mercy.
[Gm] _
Lord have mercy.
_ [Bb] Lord have mercy [G] on the crocodile man.
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[Bb] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] Underneath the lily and the cat tail picket.
Down in the shadows of the [Eb] shady grove.
There's a fast-moving rising of a [Gm] poltergeist.
Picket in the white smoke, [G] little circle. _
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_ _ [C] Inside the house [A] is a hall of mirrors.
[Bb] Inside the mirror [G] is a temple of fear.
Inside [Bb] the [G] temple is a face of my heart.
_ _ [Bb] _ [G] Phew! _ _
_ _ [Bb] My mom knows [G] exactly. _
_ _ [C] I've been sleeping with a stranger in a no-name [G]
town.
Thanksgiving dinner at the Top Hat Lounge.
Christmas Eve at [Gm] the Fantasy Tannin.
Lord have mercy on the crocodile man. _ _ _
[Bb] Lord have mercy.
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Lord have mercy.
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_ _ _ [C] I've been sleeping with a stranger in a no-name [G] town.
Thanksgiving dinner at the Top Hat Lounge.
Christmas [Gm] Eve at the Fantasy [Bb] Tannin.
Lord have [C] mercy on the crocodile man.
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[Bb] Yeah, Lord have [C] mercy.
[Gm] _ Lord have [C] mercy.
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Lord have mercy on the crocodile [G] man. _ _
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