Alligator In The House chords by S.j. Tucker

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
      A minorAm        G+G
There’s an alligator in the house
     E7E7           A minorAm
A augmentedA toothy grin appears beneath my chair
     A minorAm            G+G
A augmentedA scaly tail goes sliding out of sight
     E7E7         A minorAm
Now it’s gone - was it ever there?
     A minorAm           G+G
Something odd has moved into the house
      E7E7            A minorAm
Reptilian tracks lead underneath our bed
       A minorAm            G+G
And all the cats are tasty, fat, and scared
     E7E7         A minorAm
Though I doubt we’ve lost any yet

Chorus:
   A minorAm       G+G      FF   E MajorE
So what’s the big deal? Doesn’t everyone
    E7E7            A minorAm  E MajorE
have an alligator somewhere, somehow?
  A minorAm     G+G   FF      E MajorE
And maybe this one has always been here,
   E7E7           A minorAm
but I never noticed it till now.

Verse 2:
      A minorAm        G+G
There’s an alligator in the house
        E7E7          G+G
Just caught her napping in the living room
    A minorAm          G+G
She was dozing on the velvet couch
    E7E7            A minorAm
And the cats were sleeping there too
      A minorAm        G+G
There’s an alligator in the house
    E7E7           A minorAm
No one seems to mind except for me
     A minorAm            G+G
Well, at least she doesn’t eat the cats
   E7E7          A minorAm
I suspect she’d rather eat me
      A minorAm        G+G
There’s an alligator in the pit
    E7E7           A minorAm
she is dancing wildly with the snakes
  A minorAm          G+G
to win them over to her cause
     E7E7       A minorAm
she will do whatever it takes
      A minorAm            G+G
They think I don’t see their little smiles
    E7E7          A minorAm
as they plan a reptilian overthrow
   A minorAm           G+G
but I hear them talking in my dreams
     E7E7          A minorAm
they will not be sad to see me go!

Chorus:
   A minorAm       G+G      FF   E MajorE
So what’s the big deal? Doesn’t everyone
    E7E7            A minorAm  E MajorE
have an alligator somewhere, somehow?
  A minorAm     G+G   FF      E MajorE
And maybe this one has always been here,
   E7E7           A minorAm
but I never noticed it till now.

Solo:
A minorAm G+G E7E7 A minorAm
¡Olé! Aligator... Aligator? ¡Ah!

Verse 3:
   A minorAm           G+G
I’ve begun to worry ‘bout my toes
     E7E7             A minorAm
The alligator seems to think they’re nice
       A minorAm          G+G
I’ve counted all of them a hundred times
    E7E7            A minorAm
But I never got the same answer twice

      A minorAm       G+G
There’s an alligator in my bed
    E7E7         A minorAm
she is not a master of disguise
    A minorAm          G+G
just a pillow waiting for my head
     E7E7           A minorAm
soft and sweet and hungrily she lies

      A minorAm        G+G
There’s an alligator in the house
     E7E7           A minorAm
Today she joined me for a spot of tea
      A minorAm             G+G
She helped herself to raspberries and cream
    E7E7          A minorAm
And she didn’t leave any for me

    A minorAm            G+G
Well I thought that I had seen it all
     E7E7         A minorAm
but this alligator proved me wrong
    A minorAm          G+G
like a lady as she drank her tea
  E7E7           A minorAm
she sang to me this little song:

   A minorAm       G+G      FF   E MajorE
“So what’s the big deal, doesn’t everyone
    E7E7            A minorAm  E MajorE
have an alligator somewhere somehow?
 A minorAm       G+G    FF        E MajorE
I know that you’d miss me if you found me gone
      E7E7         A minorAm
though you never noticed until now!”

Chorus:
   A minorAm       G+G      FF   E MajorE
So what’s the big deal? Doesn’t everyone
    E7E7            A minorAm  E MajorE
have an alligator somewhere, somehow?
  A minorAm     G+G   FF      E MajorE
And maybe this one has always been here,
   E7E7           A minorAm
but I never noticed it till now.

Tag:
      A minorAm       G+G
There's an alligator in my head...