Grasshopper Mac Clain Chords

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[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[G]Me and that Navy ain't speaking.
At sailing, I tell [D]you, I'm through.
On the advice of a doc, I got me a shock.
I had to have something to do.
These nerves [E]I've got are from
soaking too long
when a ship got hit by [A]a plane.
And right here, [D]about four years back,
I met Grasshopper McLean.
The sun [G]was a -burning
in the desert red hot,
and his [Em]mother drove in with a [D]flat.
She [G]went inside to cool off with a beer,
and I saw her kid in the [D]back.
He lay on the seat in the sweltering heat,
[A]with hair the color of fla[D]me.
A red [A]-headed mite,
but smiling and bright,
was little old Grasshopper McClain.
I fixed her tire
and was toting him around
when [D]she asked me how much she owed.
I just laughed and said, oh,
I'll settle for him.
And to my surprise,
[A]she drove off down the road.
I figured she'd sober
and come hurrying back.
But for three long [E]years, she never came.
And all that time, I [A]was mother and dad
to little old Grasshopper McClain.
[D]I'd tell him of ships I'd
sailed on the seas
when I put him to bed at night,
and that freckle -faced kid
was sharp as [G]a tack
and quick as a mate for a fight.
[D]I thought I'd wait till he'd grown a bit
and let him pick out his own [G]name.
One day he came in with a
bug in his hand
and he [D]said, Me, Grasshopper McLean.
Oh, he'd mimic my walk
[A]and he'd mimic my talk,
[D]like my shadow, he'd just tag me around.
He even had to be checked
every time I was checked by the
Navy doc over in town.
The doc would laugh and thump
[G]his little old chest
and say, Feller, you're right as [D]rain.
Then he'd turn to me
and tell me that [G]I'd be a new [D]man,
thanks to Grasshopper McLean.
I guess you wonder why I'm telling you this.
[E]Well, that's why I'm here doing time.
[A]For a bang and a [D]sheriff
and a [A]red -headed dame
that [D]came to take what was mine.
Ah, but you should have seen
the way he fought.
You could tell that kid was Navy [G]trained.
But this [D]lonely cell
wouldn't be [E]so much like [G]hell
If I only had [D]Grasshopper McLean

[Outro 1]
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