Alligator In The House chords by S.j. Tucker

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
      Am        G
There’s an alligator in the house
     E7           Am
A toothy grin appears beneath my chair
     Am            G
A scaly tail goes sliding out of sight
     E7         Am
Now it’s gone - was it ever there?
     Am           G
Something odd has moved into the house
      E7            Am
Reptilian tracks lead underneath our bed
       Am            G
And all the cats are tasty, fat, and scared
     E7         Am
Though I doubt we’ve lost any yet

Chorus:
   Am       G      F   E
So what’s the big deal? Doesn’t everyone
    E7            Am  E
have an alligator somewhere, somehow?
  Am     G   F      E
And maybe this one has always been here,
   E7           Am
but I never noticed it till now.

Verse 2:
      Am        G
There’s an alligator in the house
        E7          G
Just caught her napping in the living room
    Am          G
She was dozing on the velvet couch
    E7            Am
And the cats were sleeping there too
      Am        G
There’s an alligator in the house
    E7           Am
No one seems to mind except for me
     Am            G
Well, at least she doesn’t eat the cats
   E7          Am
I suspect she’d rather eat me
      Am        G
There’s an alligator in the pit
    E7           Am
she is dancing wildly with the snakes
  Am          G
to win them over to her cause
     E7       Am
she will do whatever it takes
      Am            G
They think I don’t see their little smiles
    E7          Am
as they plan a reptilian overthrow
   Am           G
but I hear them talking in my dreams
     E7          Am
they will not be sad to see me go!

Chorus:
   Am       G      F   E
So what’s the big deal? Doesn’t everyone
    E7            Am  E
have an alligator somewhere, somehow?
  Am     G   F      E
And maybe this one has always been here,
   E7           Am
but I never noticed it till now.

Solo:
Am G E7 Am
¡Olé! Aligator... Aligator? ¡Ah!

Verse 3:
   Am           G
I’ve begun to worry ‘bout my toes
     E7             Am
The alligator seems to think they’re nice
       Am          G
I’ve counted all of them a hundred times
    E7            Am
But I never got the same answer twice

      Am       G
There’s an alligator in my bed
    E7         Am
she is not a master of disguise
    Am          G
just a pillow waiting for my head
     E7           Am
soft and sweet and hungrily she lies

      Am        G
There’s an alligator in the house
     E7           Am
Today she joined me for a spot of tea
      Am             G
She helped herself to raspberries and cream
    E7          Am
And she didn’t leave any for me

    Am            G
Well I thought that I had seen it all
     E7         Am
but this alligator proved me wrong
    Am          G
like a lady as she drank her tea
  E7           Am
she sang to me this little song:

   Am       G      F   E
“So what’s the big deal, doesn’t everyone
    E7            Am  E
have an alligator somewhere somehow?
 Am       G    F        E
I know that you’d miss me if you found me gone
      E7         Am
though you never noticed until now!”

Chorus:
   Am       G      F   E
So what’s the big deal? Doesn’t everyone
    E7            Am  E
have an alligator somewhere, somehow?
  Am     G   F      E
And maybe this one has always been here,
   E7           Am
but I never noticed it till now.

Tag:
      Am       G
There's an alligator in my head...