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The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Note: #1 in 1958
(Original keys. Check it out on YouTube)
[Verse 1]
[C] Well, I saw the thing comin' out of the sky,
it had [G7] one long horn, [C] one big eye.
I commenced to shakin' and I [F] said "ooh-eee!",
It [G7] looks like a purple people [C] eater to me.
[Chorus]
[C] It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater.
[G7] (One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)
A [C] one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater.
[G7] Sure looks strange to [C] me. (One eye?)
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[Verse 2]
Well, he [D] came down to earth and he lit in a tree.
I said, [A7] "Mr. Purple People Eater, [D] don't eat me."
I [D] heard him say in a [G] voice so gruff:
[A7 NC] "I wouldn't eat you cause you're so tough!"
[Chorus]
[D] It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater.
[A7] One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater.
[D] One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater.
[A7] Sure looks strange to [D] me. (One horn?)
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[Verse 3]
[E] I said, "Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line?"
He said, [B] "It's eatin' purple people, and it [E] sure is fine.
[A] But that's not the reason that I came to land..
I [B] wanna get a job in a [E] rock and roll band."
[Verse 4]
[E] Well, bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater.
[B] Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater.
[E] (We wear short shorts) Flyin' purple people eater..
[B] Sure looks strange to [E] me.
[Verse 5]
[E] And then he swung from the tree and he lit on the ground,
He [B] started to rock, really [E] rockin' around. It was a crazy ditty with a [A] swingin' tune..
Sing a [B] bop bop-a-lu-op and a [E] lim-bam-boom.
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[Verse 7]
[E] And then he went on his way, and then [F] what do ya know?
I [C] saw him last night on a [F] TV show. [Bb] He was blowing it out, a'really knockin' 'em dead..
Playin' [C] rock and roll music through the [C] horn in his [F] head.
F // T e q u i l a!
