Chords for Crocodile Man - Chris Smither

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_ [E] Alright, here's one.
This is by [Ab] Dave Carter.
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This _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ is a song that I cannot believe he [Abm] beat me to this song.
I should have written [G] this song.
It's a perfect Chris Smith song. _ _
[Ab] This is called Crocodile Man.
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[Bb] Mom [C] would raise me [G] on riddles and trances.
[Bb] Fat [C] back [Gm] channeled and Billy White lies.
All wrapped up in a jim-cracked fancy.
I never [C] met Papa.
[G] Never asked why.
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[G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] People said Papa [A] wasn't your [Gm] account anyway.
People said Papa was a roaring stone.
I turned 20 on the walk of my thru-way.
[C] Headed upriver in the [Gm] garth.
[G] I got off the metro at night.
[Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [C] I've been sleeping with a stranger, no name [G] child.
Thanksgiving [D] dinner at the [C] top hat [G] lounge.
Christmas Eve at the fantasy [Bb] town.
Lord have [C] mercy.
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Lord have mercy.
_ [Bb] Lord have [Cm] mercy on the flies that [G] die all day.
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_ [Gm] I hooked up with a carny, a little out of Memphis.
Slavin' in the side show, pennies in a jar.
[G] Beetle-eyed jokers, in-town princes, rhinestones, ribbons and rubber cigars.
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_ [C] _ [Gm] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [Bb] I razzle me a [C] gator up in [G] Omaha [Bb] City.
Dump me [C] another down in New [Gm] Orleans.
Tangle with a barker, run off with a kitty.
Crawl to [G] Mississippi and I got away clean.
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[C] I've been sleeping with a stranger, no name [G] child.
Thanksgiving dinner at the top hat lounge.
Christmas [Gm] Eve at the fantasy town.
Lord have [C] mercy.
[Gm] _ [Bb] Lord [C] have mercy.
[Gm] _ [Bb] Lord [C] have mercy on the flies [G] that die all day.
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_ [Gm] Underneath the living room, a cat peels thicket.
Down in the shadows of a shady grove, there's a vast roof rising from a oak fence, thickened into white oak meadows from a [G] cold black stone.
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[Gm] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] Inside the [Cm] house is [Gm] the hall of mirrors.
Inside the mirror is the temple of sin.
Inside [G] the temple is the face of Mama.
_ _ [Bb] Yeah, Mama, [C] she [G] knows where I've been.
_ _ [Bb] Mama knows [C]
[G] exactly where these bad boys been.
[C] I've been sleeping with a stranger, no name [G] child.
Thanksgiving dinner at the top hat lounge.
Christmas Eve at the fantasy [Bb] town.
Lord have [C] mercy.
[Gm] _ [Bb] Lord have [C] mercy.
[Gm] _ Lord have mercy on the flies that [G] die all day. _
_ [C] I've been sleeping with a stranger, no name [G] child.
Thanksgiving dinner at the [D] top hat [G] lounge.
Christmas Eve at the fantasy [Bb] town.
Lord have [C] mercy.
[Gm] _ Lord have [C] mercy.
[Gm] _ Lord have mercy on the flies that die [C] all day.
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