Alligator

	  		Alligator: Grateful Dead 
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    Kazoo Part 
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Sleepy Alligator in the noon day sun, 
C                               F       Am 
Lyin' by the river just like he usually done. 
C                           F             Am 
Call for his whiskey, he can call for his tea, 
C                           F          Am 
Call all he want to, but he can't call me. 
 
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Oh no! I've been there before, 
A 
And I ain't gonna come around here no more. 
 
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(Hung up, waitin' for windy day) 
F                     C 
(Hung up, waitin' for windy day) 
 
F                       C 
Creepy alligator coming all around the bend, 
F                                    C 
Shoutin' about the times when we was mutual friends, 
F                        C 
I checked my memory and I checked it quick, yes I will. 
F                             C 
I checked it runnin' some old kind of trick. 
Dm              A 
Oh no! Well I've been there before, 
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And I ain't gonna come around here any more. 
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Sailin' down the river in an old canoe, 
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A bunch of bugs and an old tennis shoe. 
A                    E 
Out of the river all ugly and green, 
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Came the biggest old alligator that I've ever seen! 
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Teeth big and pointy and his eyes were buggin' out, 
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Contracted the union, put the beggars to rout. 
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Screamin' and yellin', he was pickin' his chops, 
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He never runs he just stumbles and hops. 
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Just out of prison on ten dollars bail, 
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Mumblin' bitches and waggin' his tail. 
 
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