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Onomatopoeia
John Prine
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Onomatopoeia - John Prine
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Tabbed by: Dave S.
Email: Prime-Prine@hotmail.com
Tuning: Standard (CAPO 3rd fret)
Artist: John Prine
Album: Sweet Revenge
Year: 1973
G
Forty-five minutes Fifty-five cents
C
Sixty-five agents sitting on a fence
G
Singing, hey brother
D G
Look what we got for you
G
We're gonna rope off an area And put on a show
C
From the Canadian border Down to Mexico
G
It might be the most Potentially gross
D G
Thing that we could possibly do
D
Yeah, little buddy gonna get your chance
G
Make them pubescents all wet their pants
A
We'll record it live And that's no jive.
D
Hold it! Stop it! No! No! No! No!
G
Bang! went the pistol. Crash! went the window.
C G D
Ouch! went the son of a gun. Onomatopoeia I don't wanna see ya
G
Speaking in a foreign tongue.
G
Knock! Knock! Hello! Can I come in?
C
Gee, that was a wonderful show!
G
Oh, you haven't gone on yet?
D G
Well, how was I supposed to know?
(Repeat Chorus)