"Weird Al" Yankovic – Midnight Star (Guitar)

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[Intro: Bb Bb C F G C F G]
Bb                   F                    C
I was waiting in the express lane with my twelve items or less

Bb                             F             C
At the checkout counter at the local grocery store

Bb                 G
I was only passin' by

C                     F
But a paper caught my eye

Bb                         F            G
And I learned a few things I never knew before

Bb                   F             C
It said your pet may be an extraterrestrial

Bb                         F               C
It said the ghost of Elvis is living in my den

Bb                         G
You can learn to cope with stress

C                F
You can beat the IRS

Bb                             F            G
And the incredible frog boy is on the loose again

C   F        G
Oh, Midnight Star

C           F               G
It's in the weekly Midnight Star

C           Am*             F              D
Aliens from outer space are sleeping in my car

F                      G             Bb
Midnight Star, I wanna know, I wanna know

Bb        F                   C
Eat jelly doughnuts, and lose twenty pounds a day

Bb                    F                  C
Hear the story of the man born without a head

Bb                   G
And top psychics all agree

C                  F
That the telephone company

Bb                                 F                     G
Will have a brand new service that lets you talk to the dead

C   F        G
Oh, Midnight Star

                          C              F               G
You can believe it if you read it in the weekly Midnight Star

C               Am*            F              D
They're keeping Hitler's brain alive inside a jar

F                      G             Bb
Midnight Star, I wanna know, I wanna know
[Solo: C F G C F G]
Am                               C
Tell me, tell me, tell me how to make my bust-line grow

F                      G
Midnight Star, I wanna know

C   F        G
Oh, Midnight Star

                            C                         F               G
Well, don't you know that I read it, I read it in the weekly Midnight Star

C             Am*               F                   G
The UFOs have landed, and we'll tell you where they are

F                      G             Eb
Midnight Star, I wanna know, I wanna know

Eb  Ab       Bb
Midnight Star

              Eb                       Ab              Bb
Well, you can read all about in in the weekly Midnight Star

Eb               Cm*    Ab            F
You can use your ESP to learn to play guitar

Ab      Bb            Eb
I wanna know, I wanna know
[Ad infinitum: Ab Bb Eb] * = Optional chord; Not present in Weird Al's version but I think it sounds better with it on acoustic. [Tabbed & submitted by Simon Harchun on 14/Aug/2014 - [email protected]]