Emily
Adam Green
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Tom : D
D G
I just don't care about the evening news
D A
I never listen to the crackhouse blues
D G
They say the city is the place to be
D A D
I wanna dance with Emily
D G
Everybody come around the window shop
D A
I guess they never seen the moves I got
D G
I wanna be with what the people see
D A D
I wanna dance with Emily
G
Emily, sweet baby, won't you be my wife
D
Cutting me wide open with a kitchen knife
E
Everybody said that she is underage
A A7
Honky tried to shoot me with a 7 gage
D G
Now I got the cookies that your momma sent
D A
I got permission from the government
D G
Someone should mention to the minister
D A D
Now I gotta dance with Jennifer
D G
Jenny's got a mousehole full of pigeon scum
D A
On top a mountain made of bubble gum
D G
Don't understand what all the grief is for
D A D
Now I gotta dance with Eleanor
G
Eleanor, I wonder if we move too slow
D
Straight down the hatch beneath the streetlight's glow
E
Baby when I get you on that persian rug
A A7
That's the kind of movies I've been dreaming of
D G
I'll tell you something that you'd think I know
D A
I got two tickets to the sold out show
D G
Some of the fellas like to think I'm Greek
D A D
I wanna love you maybe three days a week
D G
I just don't care about the evening news
D A
I never listen to the crackhouse blues
D G
I wanna be with what the people see
D A D
I wanna dance with Emily
D A7 D
I wanna dance with Emily
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