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Creature With The Atom Brain Chords

(ver. 1)
Roky Erickson
Chords:

      B    A    G

E|----7----5----3----|
B|----7----5----3----|
G|----8----6----4----|
D|----8----7----5----|
A|----9----7----5----|
E|----7----5----3----|



Intro:
B    A    B    G


Riff:
E|------------------|
B|------------------|
G|------------------|
D|------------------|
A|------------------|
E|-7-9-10-10-10\9\7-|



Verse 1:

B        A             B
Creature with the atom brain

B        A             B
Creature with the atom brain

B   A               B
Why is he acting so strange

B        A               B
Do you think he's one of them?



Verse 2:

B        A         B
Threw the doll right down

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

B        A             B
Creature with the atom brain

B        A             B
Creature with the atom brain



Monologue 1:

  B           A
  "I told you I'd come back!

           B
  Remember Buchanan?"

  B        A         B
  "But you're not Buchanan!"

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

  B         A                    B
  Don't you recognize the voice, Jim?

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



Verse 3:

B        A         B
No one stitches like that

B        A         B
No one stitches like that

B        A         B
Creature with the atom brain

B        A         B
Creature with the atom brain


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

  "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:

B        A         B
Creature with the atom brain

B        A         B
Creature with the atom brain

B        A         B
Why is he acting so strange

B        A         B
Do you think he's one of them?

B        A         B
Creature with the atom brain



Outro: (fade out)

B    A    B
B    A    B
B    A    B    G            
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