Creature With The Atom Brain chords by Roky Erickson

Chords with lyrics

Chords:

   BB  A augmentedA  G+G

E MajorE|----7----5----3----|
BB|----7----5----3----|
G+G|----8----6----4----|
D MajorD|----8----7----5----|
A augmentedA|----9----7----5----|
E MajorE|----7----5----3----|


Intro:
BB  A augmentedA  BB  G+G

Riff:
E MajorE|------------------|
BB|------------------|
G+G|------------------|
D MajorD|------------------|
A augmentedA|------------------|
E MajorE|-7-9-10-10-10\9\7-|


Verse 1:

BB    A augmentedA       BB
Creature with the atom brain

BB    A augmentedA       BB
Creature with the atom brain

BB  A augmentedA        BB
Why is he acting so strange

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Do you think he's one of them?


Verse 2:

BB    A augmentedA     BB
Threw the doll right down

BB            A augmentedA      BB
Ripped it's guts off and threw it on the ground

BB    A augmentedA       BB
Creature with the atom brain

BB    A augmentedA       BB
Creature with the atom brain

Monologue 1:

 BB      A augmentedA
 "I told you I'd come back!

      BB
 Remember Buchanan?"

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 "But you're not Buchanan!"

 BB    A augmentedA     BB
 "I don't look like him, but I am him.

 BB     A augmentedA          BB
 Don't you recognize the voice, Jim?

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 I promised to see you die, and I will!"
 BB     A augmentedA     BB     G+G
 (faintly)
 "Hey boss let us in! Boss man, let us in that door!"


Verse 3:

BB    A augmentedA     BB
No one stitches like that

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No one stitches like that

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Creature with the atom brain

BB    A augmentedA     BB
Creature with the atom brain


Monologue 2 + Bridge:
 (note: chord progression played repeatedly, BB A augmentedA BB)

 "Today's big story centers around
 the killing of District Attorney Mcgraw
 whose body was found in his garage, murdered."

 "Dr. Walker is under the impression that
 these crimes were being perpetrated by
 dead men charged with atom rays, which gives them
 superhuman strength and makes them impervious to bullets.

 Well, if you want to believe that story you can."


Verse 4:

BB    A augmentedA     BB
Creature with the atom brain

BB    A augmentedA     BB
Creature with the atom brain

BB    A augmentedA     BB
Why is he acting so strange

BB    A augmentedA     BB
Do you think he's one of them?

BB    A augmentedA     BB
Creature with the atom brain


Outro: (fade out)

BB  A augmentedA  BB
B  A augmentedA  BB
B  A augmentedA  BB  G+G


Note:
Roky Erickson & The Aliens song title, "Creature with the Atom Brain" is based of a 1955
film of the same name. The film is about a deported American gangster, Frank Buchanan
who forces an ex-Nazi scientist to create zombies by resurrecting corpses through radiation