Midnight Rambler (CHORDS) by The Rolling Stones

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Did you hear about the midnight rambler?

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Everybody got to go

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Did you hear about the midnight rambler

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The one that shut the kitchen door?

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He don’t give a hoot of a warning,

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A-wrapped up in a black cat coat

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He don’t go in the light in the morning

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He’s split the time the cock’rel crows


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[verse 2]~
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Talking about the midnight gambler,

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The one you’ve never seen before

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A-talking about the midnight gambler

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Did you see him jump the garden wall?

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A-sighing down the wind so sadly

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A-listen and you hear him moan

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Well I’m talking about the midnight gambler

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Everybody got to go


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Did you hear about the midnight rambler?

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Well honey it’s no rock’n’roll show

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Well I’m a-talking about the midnight gambler

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The one you’ve never seen before


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Don’t you do that (repeat over the riff many times then slow)


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Well you heard about the Boston...

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It’s not, one those...

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Well I’m talking about the midnight...

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The one who closed the bedroom door?

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I’m called the hit and run, rape her in anger

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The knife sharpened tippy toed

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Or just the shoot him dead brain-belled jangler

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You know the one you never seen before

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So if you ever meet the midnight rambler

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A-crawling down your marble hall

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Well he prowling like a proud black panther

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You can say I, I told you so

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Well won’t you listen for the midnight rambler

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Play it easy as you go

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I’m gonna smash down your plate glass windows

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Put a fist through your steel plate door


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[verse 5]~
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Did you hear about the midnight rambler?

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He’ll leave his footprints up and down your hall

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A-did you hear about the midnight gambler?

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A-did you see me make my midnight call?

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And if you ever catch the midnight rambler

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I’ll steal your mistress from under your nose

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Well go easy with your cold fandango

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I’ll stick my knife right down your throat, baby and it hurts