The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler

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[verse 1]
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Did you hear about the midnight rambler?
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Everybody got to go
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Did you hear about the midnight rambler
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The one that shut the kitchen door? 
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He don’t give a hoot of a warning, 
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A-wrapped up in a black cat coat
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He don’t go in the light in the morning
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He’s split the time the cock’rel crows

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[verse 2]
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Talking about the midnight gambler, 
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The one you’ve never seen before
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A-talking about the midnight gambler
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Did you see him jump the garden wall?
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A-sighing down the wind so sadly
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A-listen and you hear him moan
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Well I’m talking about the midnight gambler
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Everybody got to go

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[verse 3]
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Did you hear about the midnight rambler?
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Well honey it’s no rock’n’roll show
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Well I’m a-talking about the midnight gambler
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The one you’ve never seen before

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Don’t you do that (repeat over the riff many times then slow)

[verse 4]
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Well you heard about the Boston... 
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It’s not, one those...
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Well I’m talking about the midnight... 
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The one who closed the bedroom door?
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I’m called the hit and run, rape her in anger
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The knife sharpened tippy toed
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Or just the shoot him dead brain-belled jangler
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You know the one you never seen before
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So if you ever meet the midnight rambler
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A-crawling down your marble hall
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Well he prowling like a proud black panther
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You can say I, I told you so
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Well won’t you listen for the midnight rambler
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Play it easy as you go
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I’m gonna smash down your plate glass windows
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Put a fist through your steel plate door

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[verse 5]
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Did you hear about the midnight rambler? 
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He’ll leave his footprints up and down your hall
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A-did you hear about the midnight gambler? 
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A-did you see me make my midnight call?
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And if you ever catch the midnight rambler
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I’ll steal your mistress from under your nose
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Well go easy with your cold fandango
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I’ll stick my knife right down your throat, baby and it hurts