Bill Anderson – Mr Peepers (Guitar)

Capo 3 Video Lesson
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[Intro] G D G D [Verse]
       D
As she rode in the car behind a black limousine

    A                                     G            D
She thought about the man she knows since she was seventeen

        D
She was glad he was gone and soon she would forget

        A                          G            D
She was married to the dullest man she had ever met

         D
He never was the kind of man she wanted him to be

     A                                 G             D
They never had that big white house or raised a family
[Chorus]
    G                  A              D         Bm
And she called him Mr. Peepers just a shy quite man

          G              A               D
She never took time to believe in him or try to understand

    G               A                 D               Bm   A
And as she gave his dying soul to the preacher man to save

G              A              G                 D     G   D
One by one the crowd began to gather around his grave

D
44 weeping stewardesses with children kneeling down

                                                A         D
And each one looked just like the man they were laying in ground
Twenty-three fashion models and a girl he called his niece
                                   A         D
With a disco dancing trophy in the name of deceased

     D
Seventeen playboy bunnies and his next-door neighbor's wife

                                          A                 D
They say she caused his heart to quit the night he lost his life
*** Key change capo 4 to play with the video [Bridge]
D    D
     Old Spencer Brown from a secret rendezvous

                               A                 D
She came to say goodbye to the only man she ever knew
[Chorus]
    G                  A              D         Bm
And she called him Mr. Peepers just a shy quite man

          G              A               D
She never took time to believe in him or try to understand

    G               A                 D               Bm   A
And as she gave his dying soul to the preacher man to save

G              A              G                 D
One by one the crowd began to gather around his grave

D
44 weeping stewardesses with children kneeling down

                                                A         D
And each one looked just like the man they were laying in ground
Twenty-three fashion models and a girl he called his niece
                                   A         D
With a disco dancing trophy in the name of deceased

                                  G              A
Seventeen playboy bunnies and she called him Mr. Peepers

D                      Bm                    A            D
And she thought he was dull  he had a closet big as a warehouse
[Outro]
    G                 A              D           Bm
And they all came out 22 secretaries 13 cocktail waitresses

G               A          D
One disc jockey person and two female country singers

        G                       A
Who for obvious reasons shall remain anomalous

D                           G
Dull is in the eye of the beholder