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Albuquerque Guitar Tablature
Band:     Weird Al Yankovic
Song:       Albuquerque

Chords:
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B	113331
Fm7	131111
Bm7	113121

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Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the
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stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the 
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street from Jerry’s Bait Shop… You know the place… Well anyway, back then 
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life was going swell and everything was juuuuust peachy… except of course 
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for the undeniable fact that every single morning my mother would make me 
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a big old bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast. Daaaaaaaouh! Big bowl of 
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sauerkraut!
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my mom, I said, “Hey mom, what’s up with all the sauerkraut?” And my dear 
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sweet mother she just looked at me like a cow looks at an oncoming train. 
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And she leaned right down next to me, and she said, “It’s good for you!” 
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        And then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth 
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and force-fed me nothing but sauerkraut until I was twenty-six and a half 
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years old. That’s when I swore that someday, someday I would get out of 
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that basement and travel to a magical far away place where the sun is 
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always shining and the air smells like warm root beer and the towels are 
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oh so fluffy, where the shriners and the lepers play their ukulele’s all 
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day long and anyone on the street’ll gladly shave you’re back for a 
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nickel. Wakawakadoodoo yah! Well let me tell you people, that it wasn’t 
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long at all before my dream came true because the very next day a local 
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radio station had this contest to see who could correctly guess the number 
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of molecules in Leonard Neroy’s butt. I was off by three but I still won
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the grand prize. That’s right a first class one-way ticket, to 
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A     -    lbuquerque,   A     -     lbuquerque! Ah yah, you know I never 
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been on a real airplane before and I gotta tell ya it was really great.
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Except that I had to ist between two large Albanian women with 
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excruciatingly severe body odour and the little kid in back of me kept 
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throwing up the whole time. The flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper 
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and salted peanuts and the in flight movie was "Biodome" with Polly Shore.
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And oh yah three of the airplane's engines burned down and we went into a
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tailspin and crashed into a hillside and the plane exploded in a giant 
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fireball and everybody died! Except for me. You know why? ‘Cause I had my 
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train table up, and my seat back in the full upright position, had my 
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train table up, and my seat back in the full upright position, had my
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train table up, and my seat back in the full upright position. Ah ha ha 
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ha! Oh ha ha! Ahhhh. So I crawled from the twisted burnin’ wreckage, I 
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crawled on my hands and knees for three full days, dragging along my big 
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leather suitcase, and my garment bag, and my tenor saxophone, and my
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twelve-pound bowling ball and my lucky lucky autographed glow in the dark 
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snorkel. But finally a arrived at the world famous “Albuquerque Holiday
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Inn”, where the towels are oh so fluffy, and you could eat you’re soup 
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right out of the ashtrays if you wanna, it’s OK their clean. Well I 
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checked into my room and I turned down the AC and I turned on the spectro
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vision and I was just about to eat that little chocolate mint on my pillow 
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that I love so very very much when suddenly there’s a knock on the door. 

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Well now who could that be? I say, “who is it?” No answer. “Who is it?”
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There’s no answer. “Who is it!?” They’re not saying anything, so finally I 
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go over and I open the door and just as I suspected, it’s some big fat 
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hermaphrodite with a flock of seagull’s haircut and only one nostril. Oh
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man I hate it when I’m right. So anyway he burst into my room and grabbes 
          
my lucky snorkel and I’m like “hey, you can’t have that! That snorkel has
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been just like a snorkel to me.” And he’s like “tough” And I’m like “give
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it.” And he’s like “make me.” And I’m like “k.” So I grabbed his leg and 
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he grabbed my oesophagus and I bit off his ear and he chewed off my 
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eyebrows and I took out his appendix and he gave me a valonic irrigation 
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yes indeed you better believe it. And somehow in the middle of it all the 
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phone got knocked off the hook, and twenty seconds later I heard a 
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familiar voice, and you know what it said, I’ll tell you what it said, it 
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said, “if you’d like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you
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need help hang up and then dial you’re operator. If you’d like to make a 
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call, please hang up and try again. If you need help hang up and then dial
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you’re operator. In A     -    lbuquerque,   A     -     lbuquerque! Well 
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to cut a long story short he got away with my snorkel. But I made a solemn 
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vow right then and there that I would rest, I would not sleep for an 
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instant until the one-nostriled man was brought to justice. But first I 
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decided to buy some donuts. So I got in my car and drove over to the donut
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shop and I walked right up to the guy behind the counter and he says “yah,

wadaya want?”
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I said, “ you got any glazed donuts?” He said, “naaa were all out of 
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glazed donuts.” I said, “well you got any jelly donuts?” He said, “naaa 
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were all out of jelly donuts.” I said, “you got any Bavarian cream-filled 
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donuts?” He said, “naaa were all out of Bavarian cream-filled donuts.” I 

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said, “you got any cinnamon rolls?” He said, “naaa were all out of 
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cinnamon rolls.” I said, “you got any apple fritters!?” He said, “naaa 
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were out of apple fritters.” I said, “you got any bear claws!!?” He said, 

“wait a minute, I’ll go check. 

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Naaa were out of bear claws.” I said, “well in that case, in that case 
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what do you have?” He said, “all I’ve got right now is this box of one 
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dozen starving crazed weasels.”G------| I said, “OK I’ll take that.” So he
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hands over the box and I open up the lid and the weasels jump out and they 
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immediately latch onto my face and start biting me all over ayiyi 
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yiyiyiyi. Oh, oh man they were just going nuts! Their terin’ me apart. You
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know I think it was just about that time that little ditty started goin’
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through my head. I believe it went a little something like this. 
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“Doooohgetemoffmegettemoffmeooogetemoffgettemoffoooohgetoooohgeooohoooahhh
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hohhhiahhooohahahahhhohhhhh!” I ran out onto the street with these flesh 
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eating weasels all over my face, waiving my arms all around and just 
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runnin’ and runnin’ and runnin’ like a constipated wiener dog. And as luck 
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would have it, that’s exactly when I ran into the girl of my dreams, her
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name was Zelda. She was a calligraphy enthusiast with a slight overbite 
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and hair the colour of strange peaches. I’ll never forget the very first 
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thing she said to me, she said, “hey, you got weasels on your face.” 

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That’s when I knew it was true love, we were inseparable after that, oh we 
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ate together, we bathed together, we even shared the same piece of mint-
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flavoured dental floss. The world was our burrito. So we got married and 
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we bought us a house and had two beautiful children, Nathaniel and 
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Superfly. Oh we were so very very very happy, oh ya. But then one fateful 

night Zelda said to me, she said, “Sweetie-pumpkin, do you want to join 
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the Columbia Record Club?”          I said, “Wooooah hold on now baby, I’m 
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just not ready for that kind of a commitment.” So we broke up and I never 
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saw her again but that’s just the way things go, . In A     -    
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lbuquerque,   A     -     lbuquerque! 

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Anyway then things really started looking up for me, because about a week 
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later I finally achieved my life-long dream. That’s right I got me a part 
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time job at the “Sizzler.” I even made employee-of-the-month after I put 
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out that grease-fire with my face. Oh ya everyone was pretty jealous of me 
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after that. I was getting lota attitude. OK like one time, I was out in 
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the parking lot trying to remove my excess earwax with a golf pencil, when 
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I see this guy Marty tryin’ to carry a big old sofa up the stairs all by 
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himself. So I-I say to him, I say, “hey, you want me to help you with 
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that? And Marty he just rolls his eyes and goes, “nooooo I want you to cut 
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off my arms and legs with a chain saw.” So I did. And then he gets all 
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indignant on me, he’s like, “hey mad I was just being sarcastic.” Well
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that’s just great, how was I supposed to know that? I’m not a mind reader
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for crying out loud. Besides now he’s got a really cute nickname “Torso 
 
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what’s he complaining about? Say that reminds me of another amusing
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anecdote; this guy comes up to me on the street and tells me he hasn’t had
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a bite in three days. Well I knew what he meant but just to be funny I
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took a big bite out of his jugular vein, and he’s yelling and screaming
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and bleeding all over and I’m like, “hey come on don’t you get it?” But he
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just kept rolling around on the sidewalk bleeding and screaming, YAHHHH! 
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OHHHH! AHHHH! And I’m completely missing the irony of the whole situation, 
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man some people just can’t take a joke you know? Anyway, um… um… where was 
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I? Kinda lost my train of thought. Oh, uh, well oh okay anyway I know it’s 
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a roundabout way of saying it but I guess the whole point I’m trying to 
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make is, I, HATE, SAURKROUT! That’s all I’m really trying to say, and by 
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the way if one day you happen to wake up and find yourself in an 
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exsulstential quandary full of woeing and self doubt and wrapped with the 
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pain and isolation of you’re pitiful meaningless existence, at least even
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take a small bit of comfort in knowing that somewhere out there in this 
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crazy old mixed up universe of ours, there’s still a little place, called 
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A     - lbuquerque,   A     -     lbuquerque! Albuquerque, Albuquerque,
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Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque,
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Albuquerque, I say  A, A, L, L, B, B, U, U… QUERQUE! QUERQUE!           
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Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, 
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Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, 
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Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque,
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Albuquerque, Albuquerque,

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