Tuning: Standard
Tattoo, tattoo
VERSE 1
D5-A5 D5-A5
I got Elvis, on my elbow
D5 A5 D5-A5
and when I flex, Elvis talks.
D5 A5 D5-A5
I got hula girls, on the back of my leg
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and she hulas, when I walk.
F5 C5
Speaking cherry red
F5 C5
Screaming electric green.
D5-A5 D5-A5
Purple mountain's majesty, really talk to me (talk to me babe).
PRE-CHORUS 1
F5 G5
Swap meet Sally, tramp stamp cat
C5 G/B A5 F5
mousewife to momshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo
G5
Tattoo-tattoo
CHORUS 1
D5-A5 D5-A5
(Tattoo, tattoo) show me your dragon magic
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(Tattoo, tattoo) so autobiographic!
VERSE 2
D5-A5
Best believe that needle will hurt you
D5-A5
best deceive these true colors that follow one of your false virtues.
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Here's a secret, to make you think
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why is the crazy stuff we never said, poetry in ink.
D5 A5 D5-A5
Speak in day-glow red, Explodo paint
D5-A5 D5-A5
purple mountain's majesty show me you, I'll show you me.
PRE-CHORUS 2
F5 G5
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Swap meet Sally, tramp stamp cat
C5 G/B A5 F5
mousewife to momshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo
G5
Tattoo-tattoo (whoo)
CHORUS 2
D5-A5 D5-A5
(Tattoo, tattoo) sexy dragon magic
D5-A5 D5-A5
(tattoo, tattoo) so very autobiographic!
D5-A5 D5-A5
(Tattoo, tattoo) got a hold on me
D5-A5 D5-A5
(tattoo, tattoo) you put a spell on me!
GUITAR SOLO
VERSE 3
D5-A5 D5 A5
Uncle Danny, had a coal tattoo
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He fought for the unions, some of us still do
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On my shoulder is a number, of the chapter he was in
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That number is forever like the struggle here to win (everybody!
PRE-CHORUS 3
F5 G5
Swap meet Sally, tramp stamp cat
C5 G/B A5 F5
mousewife to momshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo
G5
Tattoo-tattoo
CHORUS 3
D5-A5 D5-A5
(Tattoo, tattoo) sexy dragon magic
D5-A5 D5-A5
(tattoo, tattoo) so very autobiographic!
D5-A5 D5-A5
(Tattoo, tattoo) got a hold on me
D5-A5 D5-A5
(tattoo, tattoo) you put a spell on me!
D5-A5 D5-A5
(Tattoo, tattoo) I'm in love with you
D5-A5 D5-A5
(tattoo, tattoo) show me, show me your
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(Tattoo, tattoo) look at me, look at you!
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(tattoo, tattoo) Whoa!