Regina Spektor - Back Of A Truck Chords & Tabs

 

Back Of A Truck Chords & Tabs

Regina Spektor Chords & Tabs

Version: 2 Type: Chords

Back Of A Truck Chords

   
D                               A
She lifted the monument in her monumental arms 
          C                         G
She was the mother superior with her carry-on luggage charms 
        D                       A
She was this androgynous powder nosed girl next door 
         C                        G
She had eaten her dog and she was back for more 

A#        D
Back for more 
A#        D
Back for mo-ore
A#        D
Oh, she was back for more
      G            A         D
Some more? yes please, some more

D                                 A
Her gym teacher thought himself a sweat sock demi god 
         C                             G
Her geraniums thought themselves an alien pod 
D                                    A
Her front porch gave way beneath the classified weight 
C                                           G
And when the ambulance came they said it's much too late 

A#                  D
Oh, it's much too late
A#                  D
Oh, it's much too, much too late
A#                  D
Oh, it's much too late
G                A         D
How late? Very late, too late

             D                       A
Now the people of New Guinea and the people of LA 
           C                             G
Have been pen pals for years cause they both hate ballet
              D                         A
Only the pandas and bears have made a clean getaway 
            C                        G
But the news bulletin claims it's gonna be ok 
          D                            A
Now Miss Lucy had a sweatshop where the immigrants worked 
        C                                          G
Problem was they all turned to pumpkins at the twelve o'clock stroke 
               D               A
Promptly confiscated by police precinct number X 
           C                       G
That was when the alien geraniums demanded the facts 
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A#        D
No violence of course
A#        D    
No violence, no violence, of course
A#        D
Hey, hey no violence, of course
G                 A       D
Off course? Why yes, of course 

D                                A
Here the story gets hazy and the hair gets too long 
C                           G
The TV gets quiet as we hear a real bad song 
D                                   A
The mothers get whiskey and the girlfriends get tongue 
          C                           G
And there's a back of a truck selling smoke free lungs 
          D                             A
And there's a back of a truck selling alien pods 
          C                            G
And there's a back of a truck selling game show hosts 
          D                                A
And there's a back of a truck selling the souls of the dead
          C                             G
And there's a back of a truck selling crumb free bread
          D                                A
And there's a back of a truck selling the back of a car 
          C                           G        
And there's a back of a car selling roadway maps
          D                              A
And there are roadway maps selling the back of a head 
C                                                  
Hey, how much for that back of a head, man? 
G                                   
Hey wait a minute, hey wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute,
        D             A
that's my back of a head, hey you can't sell that man
        C              G
that's my back of a head
                
Hey sell it back to me man
         
Sell it back to me 
D                        A   C   G                          
It's, it's my m-m-m-m-m-m-mine

D                              A
She lifted the monument in her monumental arms 
             C                       G
She was the mother superior with her carry-on luggage charms 
D                         A
She was this androgynous powder nosed girl next door 
          C                       G
She had eaten her dog and she was back for more