Chords for Cruel, Cruel Moon

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_ _ _ _ _ Cruel, cruel moon, please don't come out [Eb] tonight.
_ Cause when you do, my Emily Lou and me are gonna [Ab] have a fight.
[Db] They say the full moon's meant for lovers, [Ab] but you're gonna break my heart.
[Eb] Cause when you shine, that baby of mine will turn into a werewolf
[Db] and rip out my throat [Ab] and kill me. _
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Four weeks ago, me and Emily Lou [Eb] were on a North England tugboard.
Late one night against Ed Feist, [Ab] when I walk in on the moors.
[Db] She thought [Dbm] she saw a doggy [Ab]
underneath the full [F] moon's light.
[Bb] But when she tried to pet that [Eb] doggy, it gave her a nasty bite.
[Ab] Didn't think too much about it, [Eb] till this morning when I wrecked head.
There was some kind of monster out last [Ab] night, and 18 folks were dead.
[Db] My baby [Dbm] slept there next to me, [Ab] with blood cake in [F] her claws.
[Bb] Tattered clothing, guts and [Eb]
entrails clenched between her jaws.
_ [Ab] _
Cruel, cruel moon, please don't come out [Eb] tonight.
Cause when you do, my Emily Lou and me are gonna [Ab] have a fight.
[Db] They say the full moon's meant for [Ab] lovers, but you're gonna break my heart.
_ [Eb] Cause when you shine, that baby of mine will turn on me
and rip my lungs [Db] out and julienne [Ab] my liver. _
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Every time you think you know someone, [Eb] that's when they change again.
So Mr.
Moon, can you help me [Ab] out of this doggone fix I'm in?
I [Dbm] locked my baby in the [Ab] basement and reinforced [F] the door.
[Bb] But when she's done, I can't [Eb] reprise it, she's gonna settle up the score.
[Ab] My finger's on the trigger [Eb] of this gun full of silver bullets.
But Mr.
Moon, I love my [Ab] Emily Lou too much to pull it.
_ [Db] [Dbm] My daylight's running out soon and [Ab] this door won't [F] hold for long.
[Bb] One last chance now, Mr.
[Eb] Moon, won't you listen to my song?
[Ab] _ _
Cruel, cruel moon, please don't come [Eb] out tonight.
Cause when you do, my Emily Lou and me are gonna [Ab] have a fight.
[Db] They say the full moon's meant for lovers, [Ab] but you're gonna break my heart.
_ [Eb] Cause when you shine, that baby of mine will painfully _ transform
just like that guy from An American Werewolf in London.
Then she'll tear my eyeballs from their [Db] sockets, then I won't [Dbm] see my baby [Ab]
anymore.
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Now why the chicken [G] might have done it, I just [Em] couldn't say.
But if I'm gonna [G] make it home, this is the [Am] only way.
Five lanes of [Cm] traffic, an embankment, then a [F] stream.
It's like it's some [Dm] kind of [G] amphibianic [Em] fever dream.
The total [Bbm] act of law enforcement on this road [E] to crime.
I'd write a [Gm] letter, but I simply haven't got the [C] time.
Give me a call tomorrow if I [F] haven't died.
Then I can [Dm] tell you how I made it [G] to the other [Em] side.
Left, [F] Up right, Right, Right, [G] Turn [C] left up, Up left, [G] Up right, Right,
Right, Turn left up, [C] Up, up, left,
Up right, [F] Right, Right, Turn [G] left up, [C] Up, up, left,
I [F] hope I make it to [G] the other [C] side.
Left, Up right, [F] Right, Right, Turn [G] left up, [C] Up, up, left,
I [F] gotta make it to [G] the other [F] side! _ _ _ _ _ _