Intro
| F# B | B F# | F# |
[Verse]
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Gypsy gal, the hands of Harlem
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Cannot hold you to its heat
F# B F#
Your temperature’s too hot for taming
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Your flaming feet are burning up the street
B/C# F#/C# B/C# F#
I am homeless, come and take me
B/C# F#/C# B/C# C# [= LINK]
Into reach of your rattling drums
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Let me know, babe, about my fortune
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Down along my restless palms
[Interlude] (2x)
| F# B | [lick) | F# B | [lick) | F# B | F# |
[Verse]
F# B F#
Gypsy gal, you got me swallowed
F# B F#
I have fallen far beneath
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Your pearly eyes, so fast an’ slashing
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An’ your flashing diamond teeth
B/C# F#/C# B/C# F#
The night is pitch black, come an’ make my
B/C# F#/C# B/C# C# [= LINK]
Pale face fit into place, ah, please!
F# B/F# D* F#
Let me know, babe, I’m nearly drowning
F# B D* C* [ F# ] [= END of VERSE]
If it’s you my lifelines trace
[Interlude] + [Interlude] VARIATION
| F# B | [lick) | | F# B |2/4 [lick) | F# |
[Verse]
F# B F#
I been wond’rin’ all about me
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Ever since I seen you there
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On the cliffs of your wildcat charms I’m riding
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I know I’m ’round you but I don’t know where
B/C# F#/C# B/C# F#
You have slayed me, you have made me
B/C# F#/C# B/C# C# [= LINK]
I got to laugh halfways off my heels
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I got to know, babe, will you surround me?
F# B D* C* [ F# ] [= END of VERSE]
So I can know if I’m really real
[Coda]
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