Warren Zevon - Basket Case Chords

Key:       G
Capo: 3    E

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E             C
My baby is a basket case
E          G       D
A bipolar mama in leather and lace
G                            A
Face like an angel, she's a perfect waste
C            D       E          C            E              C
My baby is a basket case.      / / / /      / / / /      / / / /

E                    C
Dracula's daughter, Calamity Jane
E             G      D
Smoke on the water, water on the brain
       G                       A
She's pretty as a picture and totally crazed
C            D       E               
My baby is a basket case.


D                          G     E
She's gonna make a madman outta me
D                          G    E
She's gonna make a madman outta me
E            C            E            C
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E                           C
She's manic-depressive and schizoid too
E              G          D
The friskiest psycho that I ever knew
          G            A
We're paranoid lovers lost in space
C            D        E               
My baby is a basket case.

E             C            E            C
Ba-ba-ba-ba- basket case. (Ba-ba-ba-ba- basket case.)
E             C            E            C
Ba-ba-ba-ba- basket case. (Ba-ba-ba-ba- basket case.)


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G            A           C            D
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E            C           E            C
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E                C
My baby's gonna celebrate
E           G                  D
I'm being dragged through the nuthouse gates
         G                      A
Got my straitjacket on and I'm taking her place
C             D       E               
My baby is a basket case.


D                          G     E
She finally made a madman outta me
D                          G     E
She finally made a madman outta me
D                      G     E
My baby made a madman outta me
D                          G     E
She finally made a madman outta me.

            D                   E
She made a madman, madman outta me.
            D                   E
She made a madman, madman outta me.