Chords for Michael Peter Smith & Anne Hills - Dead Egyptian Blues

_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [A] _ Oh, Miskatot, what good's [B] it do?
_ Build a chair where nobody cares to be.
_ [Bb] _ [D] _ Egyptian nights were never [B] _ colder.
All your friends are thousands of years older.
[Bm] _ _ [D] Whatever happened to [G] the gang [Gm] down by the sphinx?
Seems they're only 40 [C] weeks away.
[E] _ Those [Gm] girls from Cairo with their [Bbm] bellybutton jewels
[A] made you [D] play fool [G] yesterday, [A] yesterday.
And now you're keeping [Bb] shape without worse [A] clothes.
_ _ Cause you're all wrapped up in Betty Tips and Lou.
_ _ Betty Tips and Lou, Betty Tips and Lou, Betty Tips _ and Lou.
They love the mass.
_ Do they love you, honey, sweetheart?
Don't ask.
Where's those baby brows and that pearly smile?
_ _ The smile won't roll all the way around.
_ _ [D] You make one terrific [G] hieroglyphic dog crawl. _
[D] Centuries of standing sideways turns you [A] to a frog.
All those girls from [B] Cairo who [Bbm] filled your heart with [A] lust
they've all turned [Dm] to dust yesterday, [A] yesterday.
And those bandages didn't [Bb] give them much real. _ _
They're all wrapped up in Betty Tips and Lou.
Betty Tips and Lou, Betty Tips and Lou.
Oh, Miskatot, they dig the tomb.
And _ [Abm] all that gold deep brightens [A] over it all.
[G] [Dbm] But what's the [A] difference when it's dead, what if they're playing?
_ We need to spend five thousand years [Cm] decaying.
But [D] does it matter what [G] possessions you may boast?
When [C] you are just a [Gm] ghost, it's only [C] dry [A] and fine.
Your scabinous [Bb] is gone, but your [Bbm] scabinous is some.
[A] Who cares how rich you are, [G] love, when you look like [B] Boris Karloff.
And they've even named [C] this dog who left [A] you.
_ [E] Not a war [A] rafter, you know, dead Egyptian.
_ [D] _ Oh, Miskatot, you, wait and _ see.
Now a few thousand years they're gonna dig up me.
And [A] I'll have all my little treasures [B] near at hand.
A CD of Sergeant Pepper's lonely high school [Cm] band.
[Bm] _ _ [E] You'll dry it up, mommy, while we [G] crumble DNA bomb.
[C] A letter from my honey [C] saying I love you, I cared [B] so long.
[Bb] Some peanut butter sandwiches [Bbm] will all return to sand.
[A] Not much gold or [F] silver, but I [A] think you'll understand.
My way, I'll [Dbm] be just like [A] you. _
All wrapped up in them dead Egyptian blues. _ _
_ War rafters, _ _ war rafters, all [Ab] wrapped up in them dead [A] Egyptian blues.
Dead Egyptian blues. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Did _ you say [Em] war rafters?
[A] _ War [Bb] rafters?
_ War _ [A] rafters.
Dead [B] Egyptian blues.
_ _ Dead Egyptian blues.
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ [B] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
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