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Bloody Hammer
Roky Erickson
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[ch]Bm[/ch] | [ch]A[/ch] |
Demon is up in the attic to the left. My eye turns to the left to say, "No".
[ch]G[/ch] | [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] |
You say, "First, I am a special one; I never hammered my mind out.
| [ch]Bm[/ch] (1st, 3rd time:) | [ch]A[/ch]
I never had the bloody hammer. I never had the bloody hammer
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I never had the bloody hammer.
| [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch]
Never had the bloody, never had the bloody
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Never had the bloody hammer.
[ch]Bm[/ch] | [ch]A[/ch] |
I am the doctor; I am the psychiatrist,
[ch]G[/ch] |
to make sure they don't think or they'd hammer their minds out,
[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] | [ch]Bm[/ch] |
or that they'd have a, that they'd have a bloody hammer.
[ch]Bm[/ch] | [ch]A[/ch] |
Second, I am the special one: my eyes green & blue move safely unbegotten
[ch]G[/ch] |
to the left to say, "No",
[ch]Em[/ch]
while the others with their hair turned white
[ch]F#[/ch] | [ch]Bm[/ch]
each roll their eyes back to the top of their heads
| [ch]A[/ch]
and hammer the attic floor with a bloody hammer.
| [ch]G[/ch]
I never had the bloody hammer.
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I never had the bloody, never had the bloody,
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never had the bloody hammer."
[Verse 1]
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It's not a sledgehammer, it's not a chisel, it's not a train,
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but a thought of unlimited horror for Dr. O'Chane. Dr. O'Chane
| [ch]G[/ch]
The baby ghost says, "Beat it with your chain."
| [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] | [ch]Bm[/ch] |
The baby ghost says, "Drag your chain away, Dr. O'Chane."
[ch]Bm[/ch] | [ch]A[/ch]
One bat in lightning, One bat in rain.
[ch]G[/ch] | [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] | [ch]Bm[/ch] | [ch]A[/ch]
One bat lands wolfbane for Dr. O'Chane. Dr O'Chane.
| [ch]G[/ch]
The ghost says, "Beat it with your chain".
| [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] | [ch]Bm[/ch] |
The ghost says, "Drag your chain away, Dr. O'Chane."
[ch]Bm[/ch] | [ch]A[/ch]
All bats are Dracula vampires, Vampires in the rain
[ch]G[/ch] | [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] | [ch]Bm[/ch] | [ch]A[/ch]
Vampires in the lightning for Dr. O'Chane. Dr. O'Chane
| [ch]G[/ch]
The baby ghost in the 1900s says, "Beat it with your chain".
| [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] | [ch]Bm[/ch] |
The baby ghost says, "Drag your spoon, drag your chain away, Dr. O'Chane."
[Verse 1]
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