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...