Eddie Noack – The Worm Has Turned (Guitar)

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Released 1956 Track 21 of 36 on the album "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [Disc 2]" (2012) - NOTE: YouTube version is pitched sharp, use capo on 1st fret if playing along [Intro] G7 C [Verse 1]
    C                               D7
You think that I'm so henpecked, do anything you say

     G7                                     C
When you say "frog", I ask "How high?", but gal, there'll come a day

                                            D7
You'll snap your fingers once too often and it's too late to learn

         G7                                                     C
When you see your daddy honky-tonking, you'll know the worm has turned
[Guitar Solo] C D7 G7 C D7 G7 C [Verse 2]
        C                          D7
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink

       G7                                   C
You've hooked this worm too many times, but this time, I won't sink

                                 D7
No need to get your dander up to rant and rave and shout

     G7                                                        C
Good gal, this worm ain't only turned, this worm turned inside out
[Piano Solo] C D7 G7 C D7 G7 C [Verse 3]
    C                                D7
You used to say such pretty things before you said "I do"

    G7                                                  C
But you stopped running when you caught the bus and the bus and I stopped too

                                         D7
There's lots of fish down in the sea, so if I don't return

      G7                                                  C
Don't jerk your line expecting me, them fish still love a worm
[Slide Guitar Solo] C D7 G7 C D7 G7 C [Verse 4]
   C                                  D7
Go crying to your lady friends, say I whipped you black and blue

G7                                C
Say you've been a loving wife and wish you had been true

                                            D7
You said you'd knock some sense in me and I guess I'll finally learn

           G7                                                    C
From these knots you put on my bald head, good gal, the worm has turned