From: Action Benny [skaboi@cyberhighway.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 1998 4:04 PM song:THE WOMAN WHO WAS ALSO A MONGOOSE Artist: By The Dead Milkmen! Source: from Not Richard, but Dick Transcribbed by Benny <skaboi@cyberhighway.net or nekmo@hotmail.com> and April <Guitarsurf@aol.com> INTRO: 3 progressions of C Am F C <C Am F C x4> She was once an attraction at the county fair and now she sleeps in a box at the top of the stairs and she loves it here make no mistake cause she can earn her keep by chasin snakes <C Am F C x2> And if I wake up late at night i know that everything will be alright, cause crawling round on my room is the woman who was also a mongoose <C Am F C x2> G (C Am F C)x4 She was born in May ninety years ago In a little town outside Buffalo but the town folk feared her and they chased her away and now she's happy with a place to stay <C Am F C x2> And if I wake up late at night i know that everything will be alright, cause crawling round on my room is the woman who was also a mongoose (C Am F C)x4 She trapped a rattler out behind the barn and she let it go without any harm then she came inside for a cup of tea and she spoke for a while with my brother and me <C Am F C x2> chasing after feild mice running through the high grass thats what she loves to do and if she's happy as a mongoose, shouldn't bother me or you <C Am F C x2> And if I wake up late at night i know that everything will be alright, cause crawling round on my room is the woman who was also a mongoose (C Am F C) x2 G <end on> C Any comments or questions send them to skaboi@cyberhighway.net or nekmo@hotmail.com (dhicks@erie.net no longer exists..i moved)

Dead Milkmen - The woman who was also a mongoose