The Man With The Skeleton Arms Cifras

Tuning: Standard
 
INTRO/CHORUS
 
G                         D
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
 
                  Am
He says there's someone here
 
             C
Who means to do us harm
 
G                         D                      G    D    G
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
 
VERSE
 
Em                  D
Ten years ago on Hogsback Mountain
 
      C                      D
The flames was roaring like a lion in a fountain
 
     Em                      D
The trees were burning, too many to count 'em
 
      C
And trapped in the middle
 
      D                                Em   D   Em F#m
With fire all around him, was a man... 
 
Em                       D
Flanagan and I was out camping that day
 
      C                     D
We started our fire with turpentine and hay
 
     Em                    D
The wind was howlin' so I guess we should have known
 
           C                   D                  Em   D  Em  F#m
That the flames was gonna get blown across the land
 
CHORUS
 
G                         D
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
 
                  Am
He says there's someone here
 
             C
Who means to do us harm
 
G                         D                      G   D  G
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
 
VERSE
 
Two days later when the fire died out
Flanagan and I went rootin' about
For to find a little dinner of roasted critter,
Blackened blackbird eggs and pine-cone fritters
 
That was how we happened on the badly burned man
He was yelpin' for help and so we each grabbed a hand
Thinking we'd be heroes if we dragged him back home,
We pulled, but pulled the flesh right offa the bone
 
CHORUS
 
G                         D
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
 
                  Am
He says there's someone here
 
             C
Who means to do us harm
 
G                         D                      G   D  G
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
 
BRIDGE
(same chords as verse)
 
Now of all the mad people, that guy was the maddest
He pulled a bone across his throat
And pointed right at us
Ten years on the lam from that skeletal man
He's sworn his revenge, we've heard his sinister plan:
 
He'll string us up by our hands and lift us over a vat
And dip us up to our elbows in boiling fat
It's like an eye for an eye, but ninety-nine times worse
He wants to do to us what we did to him,
Except in reverse...
 
CHORUS
 
G                         D
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
 
                  Am
He says there's someone here
 
             C
Who means to do us harm
 
G                         D                      G   D  G
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
 
 
OUTRO/CHORUS
 
G                         D
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
 
                  Am
He says there's someone here
 
             C
Who means to do us harm
 
G                         D                     Am  G   C   D  Em
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
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