• Song:

    Back Of A Truck

  • Artist:

    Regina Spektor

  • Album:

    11:11

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

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

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

G                         C
Oh, it's much too late
C                          Am          G
Oh, it's much too, much too late
            C             G
Oh, it's much too late
C                     Am         D
How late? Very late, too late

             D                                             Am
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                                              Am
Only the pandas and bears have made a clean getaway 
            C                                   G
But the news bulletin claims it's gonna be ok 
               D                                                Am
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                               Am
Promptly confiscated by police precinct number X 
                              C                       G
That was when the alien geraniums demanded the facts 

G                    C
No violence of course
C                  Am                  G
No violence, no violence, of course
C                          G
Hey, no violence, of course
C                 Am            D
Off course? Why yes, of course 

D                                               Am
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                                                 Am
The mothers get whiskey and the girlfriends get tongue 
                     C                                G
And there's a back of a truck selling smoke free lungs 
                    D                                  Am
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                                      Am
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                                       Am
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                                      Am
And there are roadway maps selling the back of a head 
D                                                  C
Hey, how much for that back of a head, man? 
G                                     D
Hey wait a minute, that's my back of a head
Am 
Hey you can't sell that man
          C
That's my back of a head
                C
Hey sell it back to me man
         G
Sell it back to me 
                        D                          Am
Hey it's, it's my m-m-m-m-m-m-mine

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