Intro: D,C as needed
Verse 1
D5 C5
Jill was a girl, Jack was a guy
D5 C5
One day they caught each other's eye
D5 C5 D5 C5
And they went steady for two years
D5 C5 D5
They'd spend their summers by the sea
C5 D5
And they were happy and carefree
C5 D5 C5
And for the future had no fears
Pre-chorus 1
D5 A5 G5
But Jack had a little secret
B5 C5
He'd been keeping to himself very deep inside his soul
D5 A5 G5
He was ashamed, he was embarrassed
B5 C5
Didn't want to jeopardise the loved they shared, oh not at all
Chorus 1
G\Bm7\C\\
Jack was... a hedgehog
G\Bm7\C\\C\C6\C\C5
Nobody knew
G5 D5
He was a filthy little creature
A5 D5
But with one redeeming feature
C5 D5 G5
He was quite good at impersonating a human
Verse 2
D5 C5 D5
Well, Jack decided to tell Jill
C5 D5
But he did not know how she'd feel
C5 D5 C5 D5
So he made a hedgehog slice
C5 D5
She said, "Jack, thank you for the food
C5 D5
And I don't want to sound too rude,
C5 D5 C5
I don't think hedgehogs are nice."
Pre-Chorus:
D5 A5 D5
Then Jack was gutted and a tear rolled down his cheek
C5 D5
And Jill said, "Jack, I was joking. I love this chocolate treat.
B5 C5
It's just the animal hedgehogs that I despise."
C5 C6(repeat for this line)
And it was quite sad because she still had no idea that Jack
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was a hedgehog
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Yes, she had no idea
Post Chorus:
G5 D5
But he couldn't stand the shame
A5 D5
And he had to clear his name
C5 D5 G5
So he organised to meet Jill down on Southbank
A5 C5 D5
And he said, "Jill, I wanna tell you..."
N.C5
She said, "Shh, I wanna smell you."
C5 D5 E5
He said, "Not the best idea."
C5 D5 E5
And he said, "Jill, I am a hedgehog."
C5 D5 E5
And she said, "Haha, silly. Well, give me a hedge-hug."
C5 D5 E5
And they held each other near
(Spoken Bridge? All throughout in 8ves | C\D\ | Em\\ | )
But as they were hugging each other, Jill cut her hand up on one of the
spikes on his back. And she said, "Jack, what the fuck is this? You have
spikes on your back! And he tore away his trench coat, and he pulled off his
little mask and his snout popped out and she said, "Are you- you actually
are a hedgehog!" "Yes, I was trying to tell you, babe. I've been trying to
tell you for a week." "Four years, Jack, you've been keeping this from me!
Four years, you little crazy fuck! What were you doing? What were you
thinking!" And she picked Jack
G5 D5 C5
up, and she kicked him high into the air!
(Sung)
G5 D5 C5
Jack went flying through the air
D5
Like a big ball of hedgehog
D5
And all the while, he was singing:
G5 D5
"Goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend
C5 D5
You have been the one..."
(Spoken repeat G\\D\\C\\D\\)
And after he'd done singing James Blunt's entire extended repertoire, two albums
to date, he came to rest through the
G5
open window of a yellow taxi cab in Frankston.
(Sung)
A5 G5
Hedgehog in a taxi, will he pay the fare?
A5 G5
Hedgehog in a taxi, does the driver even know that he's there?
F5
The driver did know he was there
G5
And they charged Jack the fare
F5 G5
But Jack disagreed with the two dollar fifty flagfall
A5
Hedgehog in a taxi, getting fiscal
G5
Didn't like the driver, pulled a pistol
A5
Out shot the driver, couldn't revive her
G5
You all thought that she was a man but she was a woman, you
Am\\G\\
are sexist
A5
Hedgehog in a taxi, hedgehog on the run
G5
There are twenty cops behind him but they know he's got a gun
A5
So he's gotta keep on going, petrol flowing
G5 F5
But now he's been surrounded and he's slowing down
G5
He's in an alleyway
F5
The cops are are and they
G5
Are just about to shoot
(Spoken - No Chords here apart from when appropriate play the chorus - | G\Bm7\ | C\(rest for 3) | )
And then Jill came running in through the alleyway. She said, "Stop! Don't
shoot the little prick! Can't you see he's not man! He's just a hedgehog!"
But as she was playing the grand piano she'd wheeled into the alleyway for
dramatic effect, the policemen riddled Jack's little body with bullets and
then started playing soccer with his corpse. Final scores were Victoria
Police 3, Jack's corpse nil. Some say it was an unfair match. And all the
while, Jill kept on playing.
Interlude: A5 , G5 , F5 , G5
Outro (Sung)
A5 G5
In conclusion, it has been seen
F5 G5
Don't pretend to be a human
A5 G5
In conclusion, it has been seen
F5 G5
Some people who say they are a human might not actually be a human
A5 G5
In conclusion, it has been seen
F5
Many of us are still heavily instructed by a dominant social paradigm that suggest
taxi driving is not an occupation for
G5
females
Coda:
F5 G5 (gliss up)
There might be a hedgehog in this room
F5 G5 (gliss up)
There might be a hedgehog in this room
F5 G5 (gliss up)
There might be a hedgehog in this room
( A5 )
Ow! Prickly.
