...POTATO'S IN THE PADDYWAGON... by The Main Street Singers
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*from 'A Mighty Wind Original Soundtrack' (2003)*


Chorus 1:

D
 Come on boys,
Potato's in the paddy wagon,
Gotta get her outta there.

D
 Come on boys,
Potato's in the paddy wagon,
Mama says it just ain't fair.

Interlude:

G  Em  D

Verse 1:

D                       G
 One night mama went to fetch,
Us up a sweet potato,
A                     D
 Fell down the cellar stairs.
           D
The cellar stairs.

D
 Stork dropped in,
      G
While she was on the floor,
      A                    D
So my sister was born down there.

Bridge 1:

A
 Daddy says this'n,
        D
Will be nothin' but a misery,
G              D       A
 Never will be worth a damn.

D
 But mama just loved,
           G
Her little sweet, Potato baby,
       A                     D
With a face like a parboiled yam.

Chorus 2:

D
 Come on boys,
Potato's in the paddy wagon,
Gotta get her outta there.

D
 Come on boys,
Potato's in the paddy wagon,
Mama says it just ain't fair.

Interlude:

G  Em  D

Verse 2:

D
 Potato grew up,
         G
To be as pretty as a peach,
       A
In her calico and,
             D
Honey yellow curls.

D
 Went to he apple cider ball,
At the arm'ry,
     A
With all the other,
               D
Ripe and ready girls.

Bridge 2:

A
 Sheriff Dan Pike,
          D
Picked Po-tato for the polka,
        G
But she spurned him,
       D         A
With a fiddle de-dee.

       D
And be-fore she,
Could turn around,
    G
And find another partner,
        A                   D
Sheriff took her into custo-dy.

Chorus 3:

D
 Come on boys,
Potato's in the paddy wagon,
Gotta get her outta there.

D
 Come on boys,
Potato's in the paddy wagon,
Mama says it just ain't fair.

Verse 3:

D
 Mama'n' daddy put together,
G
 Quite a little posse,
         A
Countin' me and Jack,
           D
And cousin Will.

   D
We all hopped into,
    G
The old Chevy pickup,
       A
And we caught 'em at,
               D
The top of the hill.

Bridge 3:

A
 Daddy took his Remington,
    D
And shot away the lock,
       G                      A
For to set his little darlin' free.

       D
But Po-tato said:
(n.c)
 "Daddy, shut the gol-dern door,
A                       D
 Sheriff wants to marry me!"

Chorus 4:

D
 Let's go boys,
Potato's in the paddy wagon,
Guess we better leave her there.

D
 Let's go boys,
Potato's in the paddy wagon,
Mama says it just ain't fair.

D
 Let's go boys,
Potato's in the paddy wagon,
Guess we better leave her there.

D
 Let's go boys,
Potato's in the paddy wagon,

G
 Mama says it's,
A          D
 More than fair,
G               A
 Mama says it's more...
     D     A  D
Than fair!


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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2005
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)