Alligator Blood Ukulele chords by Nicole Dollanganger

• Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

Verse 1:
Bb
Drinking a cup of alligator blood
F
Tastes like the heads and feet we'd see
    Bb
For sale at the local pawn
     F
We'd make necklaces out of
    Bb
I'd wear them 'round my neck
                                    F
I'm a sucker for the love of the flesh

All things rancid and delicate
        Bb
But the smell in the summer heat
 F               Bb
It still gets to me


Chorus:
G                A
Knee-deep in the poacher's dream
   Dm                     F
He dragged that thing out back and he
        G                     A
Hung it upside down, slit its belly open
    F
And let it bleed out
       G               A
And he held my head and made me watch
    Dm               F                     Bb
He filled my mouth up with its blood and said
 Bb      F    C             Bb  F
"Grow up weak or grow up tough"


Verse 2:
Bb
Playing in the swamp of alligator blood
F
Behind our house in the marshy lawn
     Bb
He'd always hold my head
          F              Bb
Under the water a little too long
 Bb
'Cause he wanted me to be all guts, no glory
F
"All survivor, no guilt," he said
Bb
But he calls me his crocodile tears
F                          Bb
While I'm chained up to the bed


Chorus:
G                A
Knee-deep in the poacher's dream
 Dm                       F
He dragged that thing out back and he
        G                     A
Hung it upside down, slit its belly open
    F
And let it bleed out
      G                 A
And he held my head and made me watch
    Dm                F
He filled my mouth up with its blood and said
Bb       F     C           Bb
"Grow up weak or grow up tough"


Outro:
Dm          F
When I was done
        G              Bb
Wiped my mouth on his sleeve
   G                     A             Bb         F
I fucked the soul of the south but it crucified me