Chorus:
GD
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
Am
He says there's someone here
C
Who means to do us harm--
GD
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
GDGVerse 1:
EmD
Ten years ago on Hogsback Mountain
CD
The flames was roaring like a lion in a fountain
EmD
The trees were burning, too many to count 'em
CDEm
And trapped in the middle with fire all around him, was a man...
EmD
Flanagan and I was out camping that day
CD
We started our fire with turpentine and hay
EmD
The wind was howlin' so I guess we should have known
CDEm
That the flames was gonna get blown across the land...
ChorusVerse 2:
EmD
Two days later when the fire died out
CD
Flanagan and I went rootin' about
EmD
For to find a little dinner of roasted critter,
CDEm
Blackened blackbird eggs and pine-cone fritters...
EmD
That was how we happened on the badly burned man
CD
He was yelpin' for help and so we each grabbed a hand
EmD
Thinking we'd be heroes if we dragged him back home,
CDEm
We pulled, but pulled the flesh right offa the bone...
ChorusVerse 3:
EmD
Now of all the mad people, that guy was the maddest
CD
He pulled a bone across his throat and pointed right at us
EmD
Ten years on the run from that skeletal man
CDEm
He's sworn his revenge, we've heard his sinister plan...:
EmD
He'll string us up by our hands and lift us over a vat
CD
And dip us up to our elbows in boiling fat
EmD
It's like an eye for an eye, but ninety-nine times worse
CD
He wants to do to us what we did to him,
Em
Except in reverse...
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