Back Of A Truck chords by Regina Spektor

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: Eb

Intro:

D5 D5 D5 D

Verse 1:

D5                     A
She lifted the monument in her monumental arms
C                           G
She was the Mother Superior with her carry-on luggage charms
D5                              A
She was this androgynous powder-nosed girl next door
         C                        G
She had eaten her dog and she was back for more

Chorus:

Bb       D5      Bb
Back for more,
         D5      Bb
back for more
                    D5
Oh, she was back for more,
     G         A            D5
some more, yes please, some more


Verse 2:

D5                               A
Her gym teacher thought himself a sweat-socked demi-god
C                                    G
And her geraniums thought themselves an alien pod
        D5                                A
And her front porch gave way beneath the classified weight
            C                             G
And when an ambulance came they said it's much too late


Chorus:

Bb                D5      Bb
Oh it's much too late
                  D5              Bb
oh it's much too, much too late
                 D5
Oh it's much too late,
    G          A         D5
how late? Very late, too late.


Bridge:

        C                            G
Now the people of New Guinea and the people of L.A.
          D5
Have been penpals for years cause they both hate ballet
         C                            G
Only the pandas and bears have made a clean getaway
        D5
But the news bulletin claims it is gonna be okay
         C                              G
Now Miss Lucy had a sweatshop where the immigrants work
        D5
Problem was they all turned to pumpkins at the 12 o'clock stroke
         C                        G
Promptly confiscated by police precinct number X
   D5
That was when alien geraniums entered into a fight


Chorus:

Bb                D5
No violence, of course,
Bb             D5
no violence, no violence, of course
      Bb                  D5
Hey no violence, of course,
   G           A       D5
of course, why yes, of course
                   G           A          D5
I mean, I mean, of course, why yes, of…of course


Verse:
 D5                               A
Here the story gets hazy and the hair gets too long
        C                           G               D5
And the T.V. gets quiet as I hear a real bad song
                                A
The mothers get whiskey and the girlfriends get tongue
           C                          G
And there's a back of a truck selling smoke free lungs
           D5                         A
And there's a back of a truck selling alien pods
             C                        G
And there's a back of a truck selling game show hosts
             D5                          A
And there's a back of a truck selling the souls of the dead
             C                        G
And there's a back of a truck selling crumb-free bread
This is New York!
             D5                          A
Now there's a back of a truck selling the back of a car
             C                      G
And there's a back of a car selling roadway maps
              D5                    A
And there are roadway maps selling a back of a head
           C
Hey how much for that back of a head, man?
                 G
Hey wait a minute, hey wait a minute
                                          D5            A
Wait a minute that's…wait a minute that's my back of a head
                                     C
Hey you can't sell that, man, that's my back of a head
                 G
Hey, hey sell it back to me, man, sell it back to me
       D5     A        C       G
Hey it's, it's my m-m-m-m-m-m-mine

Outro:

D5                     A
She lifted the monument in her monumental arms
C                           G
She was the Mother Superior with her carry-on luggage charms
D5                              A
She was this androgynous powder-nosed girl next door
         C                       G                D5
She had eaten her dog and she was back for more
                          A
She had eaten her dog, D-O-W-G
    C                       G
She had eaten a dog, d-d-dog, d-d-dog, dog, dog, dog
D5                   A              C         G
She had eaten a…eaten a…eaten…eaten her…ooooh
Bb          D5     Bb
Mmmmmm…mmmm…mmm
         D5        Bb
Ohhhh…ohhh….ohhhh
              D5
Ooooh….ooooooh…ooooh
     G         A            D5
Some more, yes please, some more
     G         A            D5
Some more, yes please, some more