Emily

C F
i just don’t care about the evening news
C G
i never listen to the crackhouse blues
C F
they say the city is the place to be
C G C
i wanna dance with emily

C F
everybody come around the window shop
C G
i guess they never seen the moves i got
C F
i wanna be with what the people see
C G C
i wanna dance with emily

F
emily , sweet baby , won’t you be my wife
C
cutting me wide open with a kitchen knife
D
everybody said that she is underage
G
honky tried to shoot me with A 7 gauge

C F
now i got the cookies that your momma sent
C G
i got permission from the government
C F
someone should mention to the minister
C G C
now i gotta dance with jennifer

C F
jenny’s got a mousehole full of pigeon scum
C G
on top a mountain made of bubble gum
C F
don’t understand what all the grief is for
C G C
now i gotta dance with eleanor

F
eleanor , i wonder if we grew too slow
C
straight down the hatch beneath the streetlight’s glow
D
baby when i get you on that persian rug
G
that’s the kind of movie that i’m dreaming of

C F
i’ll tell you something that you’d think i know
C G
i got two tickets to the sold out show
C F
some of the fellas like to think i’m greek
C G C
i wanna love you maybe three days a week

C F
i just don’t care about the evening news
C G
i never listen to the crackhouse blues
C F
i wanna be with what the people see
C G C
i wanna dance with emily
F G C
i wanna dance with emily