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Capo: 2 Tuning: E A D G B E
From the album "The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion" Original is played in the key of F# approx. quarter tone flat of concert pitch, in an open tuning, probably D with capo at 4 Chords EADGBe E/G# xx6400 B7sus4 xx4200 [Intro] E A x2 [Verse 1]
B I'm not the Akind to complain that I never had a girl to Elove. B Many fine girl I Atried hard to know, but I think I never tried eEnough. B Sitting one Aday by myself, and I'm thinking,"What could be Ewrong?" When this E/G#funny little HB7sus4edgehog comes E/G#running up to B7sus4me, and it E/G#starts up to B7sus4sing me this sEong.
[Chorus]
Oh, you Bknow all the words, and you Asung all the notes, but you never quite learned the Esong, she sung B I can tell by the Asadness in your eyes, that you never quite learned the Esong.
[Instrumental Bridge] E A x2 [Verse 2]
B Every day when the Asun go down, and the evening is so very Estill, B Many a fine girl I've Aheld in my arms, and I hope there's many more that I Ewill, B But just when everyAthing is going fine, and absolutely nothing is Ewrong, This E/G#funny little B7sus4Hedgehog's E/G#always aB7sus4round And every E/G#time he wants to B7sus4sing me this Esong.
[Chorus]
Oh, you Bknow all the words, and you Asung all the notes, but you never quite learned the Esong, she sung B I can tell by the Asadness in your eyes, that you never quite learned the Esong.
[Instrumental Bridge] E A x2 [Verse 3]
B One day when the Amoon was full I thought I might settle Edown, B Found myself a Apretty little girl, and I stopped all my running aEround; B But just when the Apreacher come along, and he's just gonna pop on the Ering, This fE/G#unny little B7sus4Hedgehog comes E/G#running down the B7sus4aisle, And I E/G#don't have to B7sus4tell you what he did Esing.
[Chorus]
Oh, you Bknow all the words, and you Asung all the notes, but you never quite learned the Esong, she sung B I can tell by the Asadness in your eyes, that you never quite learned the Esong.
[Instrumental Bridge] E A x2 [Verse4]
B I'm not the Akind to complain, that I never had a girl to Elove; B Many fine girls I've Atried hard to know, but I think I never tried eEnough. B But now I'll be Alooking all my days, and it isn't just me I got to Eplease, There's this E/G#funny little HB7sus4edgehog Who's aE/G#lways aB7sus4round, And the E/G#only words he B7sus4ever sings to me are Ethese.
[Chorus]
Oh, you Bknow all the words, and you Asung all the notes, but you never quite learned the Esong, she sung B I can tell by the Asadness in your eyes, that you never quite learned the Esong.
[Instrumental Bridge] E A x2 [Outro]
B I'm not the Akind to compl- aiE-n