Dance On Vaseline chords by David Byrne

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:


E    F    E    F
E    F    E    F

🎸 Verse 1:
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I’m taking back the knowledge
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I’m taking back the gentleness
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I’m taking back the ritual
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I’m giving in to sweetness

🎸 Chorus:

E7                   F
Come on preacherman, shoot me with your poisoned arrow
E7                 F
But I dance on vaseline
E7                   F
And I’m tripping out working on a revolution
E7                  F
Go on let the music in

🎸 Verse 2:

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I’m taking back the children
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I’m taking back the ceremony
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I’m taking back my offerings
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I’m taking back what you meant to me

🎸 Chorus:

E7                   F
Come on preacherman, shoot me with your poisoned arrow
E7                 F
But I dance on vaseline
E7                   F
And I’m tripping out working on a revolution
E7                    F
Go on let the music in

🎸 Verse 3:

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And war is all around us
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Your gods are dead and buried underground
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I was a silly puddy
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Your big ideas are useless to me now

🎸 Verse 4:

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My baby saw the future
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She doesn’t wanna live here anymore
E                 F
Its lousy science-fiction
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Gets on your skin and seeps into your bones


🎸 Chorus:

E7                   F
Come on preacherman, shoot me with your poisoned arrow
E7                 F
But I dance on vaseline
E7                   F
And I’m tripping out working on a revolution
E7                    F
Come on let the music in

🎸 Chorus:

E7                   F
Come on preacherman, shoot me with your poisoned arrow
E7                 F
But I dance on vaseline
E7                   F
And I’m tripping out working on a revolution
E7                    F
Come on let the music in

🎸 Solo:

E    F    E    F
E    F    E    F

🎸 Verse 5:

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It started in Oklahoma
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You always think it happened somewhere else
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This madness is attractive
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Until the day it happens to yourself

🎸 Verse 6:

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And power might seem sexy
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But check her in the cool clear light of dawn
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The legislative body
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And all at once your lust for her is gone

🎸 Chorus:

E7                   F
Come on preacherman, shoot me with your poisoned arrow
E7                 F
But I dance on vaseline
E7                   F
And I’m tripping out working on a revolution
E7                    F
Go on let the music in

🎸 Chorus:

E7                   F
Come on preacherman, shoot me with your poisoned arrow
E7                 F
But I dance on vaseline
E7                   F
And I’m tripping out working on a revolution
E7                  F
Go on let the music in

🎸 Outro:

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  HEY HEY   HEY HEY
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  HEY HEY   HEY HEY
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  HEY HEY   HEY HEY
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  HEY HEY   HEY HEY