INTRO/CHORUS
GD
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
Am
He says there's someone here
C
Who means to do us harm
GDGDG
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
VERSE
EmD
Ten years ago on Hogsback Mountain
CD
The flames was roaring like a lion in a fountain
EmD
The trees were burning, too many to count 'em
C
And trapped in the middle
DEmDEmF#m
With fire all around him, was a man...
EmD
Flanagan and I was out camping that day
CD
We started our fire with turpentine and hay
EmD
The wind was howlin' so I guess we should have known
CDEmDEmF#m
That the flames was gonna get blown across the land
CHORUS
GD
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
Am
He says there's someone here
C
Who means to do us harm
GDGDG
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
VERSE
Two days later when the fire died out
Flanagan and I went rootin' about
For to find a little dinner of roasted critter,
Blackened blackbird eggs and pine-cone fritters
That was how we happened on the badly burned man
He was yelpin' for help and so we each grabbed a hand
Thinking we'd be heroes if we dragged him back home,
We pulled, but pulled the flesh right offa the bone
CHORUS
GD
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
Am
He says there's someone here
C
Who means to do us harm
GDGDG
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
BRIDGE
(same chords as verse)
Now of all the mad people, that guy was the maddest
He pulled a bone across his throat
And pointed right at us
Ten years on the lam from that skeletal man
He's sworn his revenge, we've heard his sinister plan:
He'll string us up by our hands and lift us over a vat
And dip us up to our elbows in boiling fat
It's like an eye for an eye, but ninety-nine times worse
He wants to do to us what we did to him,
Except in reverse...
CHORUS
GD
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
Am
He says there's someone here
C
Who means to do us harm
GDGDG
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
OUTRO/CHORUS
GD
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
Am
He says there's someone here
C
Who means to do us harm
GDAmGCDEm
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms