Words & music By Paul Simon 1977
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He was a mean individual
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He had a heart like a bone
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He was a naturally crazy man and better off left alone
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Well, he stopped one night at a traffic light
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And when that light turned green
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He was a mean individual
F#m7 B7 |E7 |
Stranded in a limousine
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Hey, hey, hey, hey
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All the children on the street
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They come running out of their front doors
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Running out their back doors, flying on their feet
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They said Mama oh, Papa oh
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See what I have seen
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There's a mean individual
F#m7 B7 |E7 |
Stranded in a limousine
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Then everybody came running
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Everybody said Lord, Lord
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Everybody was gunning
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they're gonna divvy up the reward
B7 |E7 |
A-then wah wah wah wah wah wah wah
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There's a siren, a flashing light
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But the mean individual
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Had vanished in the black of night
|E7 |
Hey, hey, hey, hey
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They wondered where to begin
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'Cause he left that neighborhood
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Just like a rattlesnake sheds its skin
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Well they searched the roofs
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and they checked out the groups
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And then photographed the scene
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Of the mean individual
F#m7 B7 |E7 |No chord|
Stranded in a limousine
Instrumental:
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A7 | |E7 | | | |
A7 |Bbdim |E/B C#m7|F#m7 B7 E7
|A7 |
Then everybody came running
|E7 |
Everybody said Lord, Lord
|Gdim |
Everybody was gunning
G7/F# |
they're gonna divvy up the reward
B7 |E7 |
A-then wah wah wah wah wah wah wah
|A7 |Bbdim
There's a siren, a flashing light
|E/B C#m7
But the mean individual
|F#m7 B7 |E
Had vanished in the black of night
|E C#m7
The mean individual
|F#m7 B7 |E
Had vanished in the black of night
|E C#m7
The mean individual
|F#m7 B7 |E | | | | |
Had vanished in the black of night
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