Back of a Truck Regina Spektor
Depends on your range, but to me it sounds better with a capo over the first fret.
You can play the same chords either way. Strum twice at parts if you have to.
Regina is my favorite favorite artist, enjoy!
Verses will all play the same
[D]She lifted the monument in her monumental arms [Am]
[C]She was the mother superior with her carry-on luggage cha[G]rms
[D]She was this androgynous powder nosed girl next door[Am]
[C]She had eaten her dog and she was back for more [G]
[G]Back for mor[C]e
[C]Back for mo-o[Am]re[G]
Oh, she was back for[C] more[G]
[C]Some more? yes please, s[Am]ome more[D]
[D]Her gym teacher thought himself a sweat sock demi god[Am]
[C]Her geraniums thought themselves an alien pod [G]
[D]Her front porch gave way beneath the classified weight [Am]
[C]And when the ambulance came they said it's much too late [G]
[G]Oh, it's much too late[C]
[C]Oh, it's much too, much too[Am] late[G]
Oh, it's muc[C]h too late[G]
[C]How late? Very late, t[Am]oo late[D]
Now the peopl[D]e of New Guinea and the people of LA [Am]
Have been pen pal[C]s for years cause they both hate ballet[G]
Only the panda[D]s and bears have made a clean getaway [Am]
But the news[C] bulletin claims it's gonna be ok [G]
Now Miss Lucy h[D]ad a sweatshop where the immigrants worked [Am]
Problem was they all[C] turned to pumpkins at the twelve o'clock stroke [G]
Promptly confis[D]cated by police precinct number [Am]X
That was when the alien gerani[C]ums demanded the facts [G]
[G]No violence of course[C]
[C]No violence, no vio[Am]lence, of course[G]
[C]Hey, no violence, of course[G]
[C]Off course? Why ye[Am]s, of course [D]
[D]Here the story gets hazy and the hair gets too l[Am]ong
[C]The TV gets quiet as we hear a real [G]bad song
[D]The mothers get whiskey and the girlfriends get to[Am]ngue
And there's a back of[C] a truck selling smoke free lungs[G]
And there's a back o[D]f a truck selling alien pods [Am]
And there's a back o[C]f a truck selling game show hosts [G]
And there's a back of[D] a truck selling the souls of the dead[Am]
And there's a back of[C] a truck selling crumb free bread[G]
And there's a back of[D] a truck selling the back of a car [Am]
And there's a back of[C] a car selling roadway maps[G]
And there are roadway[D] maps selling the back of a head [Am]
[D]Hey, how much for that back of a head, man? [C]
[G]Hey wait a minute, that's my back of a[D] head
[Am]Hey you can't sell that man
That's my [C]back of a head
Hey sell it back[C] to me man
Sell it b[G]ack to me
[D] [Am]
Hey it's, it's my m-m-m-m-m-m-mine
[D]She lifted the monument in her monumental arms [Am]
[C]She was the mother superior with her carry-on luggage cha[G]rms
[D]She was this androgynous powder nosed girl next door[Am]
[C]She had eaten her dog and she was back for more[G]
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