Chords for Steve Poltz - Sewing Machine (Live in Sydney) | Moshcam

_ _ I'm gonna end that show tonight with this iPhone here and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna plug it in and I went over to my friend AJ Croce's house in San Diego.
AJ Croce is Jim Croce's son.
AJ Croce was only three when his dad's plane crashed after he wrote Time in a Bottle and all those songs.
And I went over to AJ's house and I said I want you to play piano on this song.
And a friend of mine from Austin, Texas named Bob Schneider said Steve we want you to write a song and we want you to use the words sewing and machine in the song.
Sewing machine but you only have 24 hours in which to write this song.
After 22 hours I couldn't think of anything and then it came to me, the whole song.
I rushed over to AJ's house and recorded him on my phone and brought it to you here in Australia.
And here goes.
This is Sewing Machine.
And it scared the shit out of this little kid so I decided it would be a great little kid song.
Because it ends happy. _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ [G] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ While he lives [G] in a hole [Cm] in a tree
_ He's much, [G] much smaller [Cm] than me
_ [Fm] He lifts the children up [G] for spider tea
[F] He's fuzzy [G] as a bumblebee
[Cm] _ While his fingernails [G] have all turned black
[C] _ [Cm] His nose is like an [Cm] old smokestack
_ _ [Fm] Steam [F] leaves his ears [G] and when the smoke clears
[Fm] You'll see [G] that you can't [Cm] go back
_ While he says his [G] name is Jack [Cm] Beeville
_ His voice [G] is as screechy [Cm] as a weasel
He'll [Fm] sew you up [F] to the wall
[G] In a long dark hall [Fm] he's got a bunch [G] of kids
Sewed to an easel
[Cm] _ [F] At least a hundred [G] kids [Cm] sewed to an easel
_ _ [Fm] _ _
_ _ [G] _ [Cm] Sewing machine
[Fm] He sews the kids together [G] and his teeth [Cm] are green
[Fm] You can't scratch an itch
[G] Here I can barely twitch
[Fm] He's a mean [G] old man with a sewing [Cm] machine _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [G] _ While [Cm] the parents tell [G] the kids don't go in the [Cm] woods
There's a scary, scary [G] man who isn't good
[Cm] _ Little [Fm] Mary didn't listen [G] as hard as she could
Now she's sewn to the [G] wall in a hood
[Cm] _ She's got a brother with a hook for [G] an arm
_ [Cm] From an accident that [G] happened on the farm
_ [Fm] His name is Ben
[G] He doesn't have any friends
All the children made fun of his [Cm] arm
_ Little Ben [G] scratched his itch with his hook
[Cm] _ And got an [G] idea while [Cm] reading a [C] book
He [Fm] welded scissors to his hook
[G] Where his hand used to be
[Fm] And said I'll search for my sister down [Cm] by the brook
Ben [G] climbed deep [Cm] into the forest
While the owl [G] started singing in [Cm] a chorus
_ [Fm] Be careful [F] little boy
[G] When you go around the pass
[Fm] There's a [G] gargoyle in a hood [Cm] named Boris
_ [Ab] Sa-sa _ [G]-sa-sewing [Cm] machine
[Fm] He sews the kids together [G] and his teeth [Cm] are [Fm] green
You can't scratch an itch
[G] Here I can barely twitch
[Fm] He's a mean [G] old man [Fm] with a sewing [Cm] [C] machine
_ _ [G] _ _
[Cm] _ _ [G] _ [Cm] Ben climbed into [G] a hole in [Cm] the ground
_ It was cold [G] and so [Cm] far down
It was dark and hard to see
[G] But he screamed for Mary
[Fm] And kept going [G] down, [Cm] down, down
_ When he got [G] to the bottom of [Cm] the cave
_ He felt like [G] he was in a big grave
[Cm] There were kids sung to the walls
[G] Down all the halls
[Fm] That he knew [G] he had [Cm] to save
He cut the children [G] down just like he [Cm] was a crook
Using the scissors [G] at the end [Cm] of his hook
And [Fm] as the kids broke free
[G] They were screaming with glee
[Fm] Saying Ben, [G] you are the man
[Cm] _ Jack Beevil [G] was as angry as a snake
[Cm] And he jumped [G] out of a big black cave
[C] _ [Fm] He grabbed Ben by his coat
[G] With his hands around his throat
[Fm] His evil body [G] started [Cm] to sha-sha-shake
_ Jack [G] Beevil fell [Cm] to the ground
_ And his tears fell all around
[Fm] He said, I'm sorry I kept you here
[G] I was lonely and without cheer
[Fm] And no one talks [G] to me in this [Cm] town
_ Jack [G] Beevil sits alone in his cell
[Cm] But when they ring [G] the jailhouse bell
[Cm] _ Little Ben will come to see him
[G] Even though they never free him
He's [Fm] making friends, [G] mending clothes from his cell
[Cm] _ He makes [Fm] amends, [G] mending clothes from [Cm] his cell
Can I get a hallelujah?
[Fm] Sha-sha-sha-sha [G]-sha-sha-sha-sha [Cm]-sewing machine
[Fm] He sews clothes for the kids
[G] And his teeth [Cm] are green
[Fm] You can't scratch an itch
[G] Here I can barely twitch
[Fm] He's a lonely [G] old man
[Fm] With a sewing [Cm] machine
[Fm] He's making [G] new friends
[Fm] With a sewing [C] machine
Everybody
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[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ Get your freak flags!
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