Chords for Ute Lemper - I Am A Vamp

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_ _ My bed belonged to Pompadour, like [Ab] Lulu I have bright red hair.
[Db] I dance as well as Salome, and treat my [D] Baptists just [Gbm] as fair.
I wear Mata Hari's [D] dress, the [Ab] ring of Marie Antoinette.
The [Eb] fairest [Ab] Helen wore this corset [Db] to a gala Trojan fete.
I [Bm] am the poison of the [Em] Borgias, I'm a [A] witch like Joan of [Db] Arc.
I wear [A] the stockings of [Ab] Dubari, [Db] bathed in [Ebm] coffins [Fm] for a long [Eb] _ _
_ _ time.
[Ab] I am a [Gb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ vampire, but [B] women have [Abm] _ _ beasts.
[Ebm] I bite my [Bbm] men and [Db] suck them dry, [Bbm] and then [Gb] I bake them in a [Gbm] pie.
I am [Gb] a _ vampire, [Bb] but that's all [Abm] I can do.
_ _ _ [B] I'm not [Gbm] mild-mannered [Gb] like you, [Eb] and oh no, and oh no, [Abm] my passion takes over.
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[Ab] I should really [Db] be Captain [Gb] of [Db] Zoo. _
[Gbm] _ Oh, _ _ _ _ _ _ that's wild and weird and crazy I've been [Ab] known to collect.
I have [Db] Clemperis piano and the cap of [Gbm] Bertolt Brecht.
I've got Mata Hari's secrets, Wally [Ab] Simpson's amethyst.
In a frame up on my wall [Db] hangs a Valentino kiss.
It's true [Bm] that some of [E] my collection I have [A] found in others' trash, [Gbm] like the Weimar [Eb] _ [Ab] Constitution, [Db] also Hitler's first mustache.
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I [Eb] am [Gb] a vampire, _
[Bb] _ but women [Abm] have _ _ beasts.
[Ebm] I bite [Bbm] my men and suck [Db] them dry, [Bbm] and then [Ebm] I [Gb] bake them in a [Gbm] pie.
[Ab] I am [Gb] a vampire, _ _
[Bb] _ but that's all [B] I can do. _ _
[Eb] _ I'm not mild-mannered [Gb] like you, [Eb] and oh no, and oh no, [Abm] my passion takes [Eb] over.
I [Ebm] _ _ [Ab] should really be [Db]
Captain of Zoo.
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_ _ _ I have a prince to write my letters, every [Ab] servant an account.
[Db] At the stables, King Alfonso [Gbm] helps me [D] get astride [Gbm] my mount.
Thomas Mann gives me a facial [Ab] using Garbo's beauty creams.
I'm sunk to sleep by Richard's Tauber.
The Prince [Db] of Wales is in my dreams.
_ [Bm] Today, von Sternbeck called an offer [A] to me, a stunning leading [Ab] role.
Once I'm a star, he'll start to worship me, [Db] and then [C] I'll eat [F] him _ whole.
_ _ _ _ [Ab] I am a [Gb] _ _ vampire, [Bb] _
but women [Abm] have beasts. _ _
[Ebm] I bite [Db] my men and suck them dry, [Bbm] and then I [Gb] bake them in a pie.
[Gbm] _
[Ab] I am [Gb] a vampire, _ [Bb] but that's all [Abm] I can do.
_ _ _ [Ebm]
I'm not [Gbm] mild-mannered [Gb] like you, [Eb] and oh no, and oh no, [Abm] my passion takes over.
And [Ebm]
I go, [Ab] I should [Db] really be Captain of [G] Zoo. _
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