Subject: CRD: r/rocky_horror/eddies_teddy.crd
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 17:24:03 +0200
From: Juergen Wuest (HiWi CEMP)
This is «Eddie’s Teddy» from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Lyrics snatched from a posting by [email protected] (Angela Reid)
to newsgroup alt.music.
EDDIE’S TEDDY
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From the «Rocky Horror Picture Show»
Words and Music by Richard O’Brien, around 1973
D G A D D7
(DR. SCOTT) From the day he was born, he was trouble.
G A D D7
He was the thorn in his mutter’s side
G A D Bm
She tried in vain. (NARRATOR) But he never caused her nothing but shame.
G A
(SCOTT) He left home the day she died.
G A D
From the day she was gone All he wanted
G A D
was rock and roll, porn, und a motor bike
G A D Bm
Shooting up junk. (NARRATOR) He was a low-down, cheap little punk.
G A
(SCOTT) Taking everyone for a ride.
CHORUS:
D G
(ALL) When Eddie said he didn’t like his teddy
A D G D
You knew he was a no good kid
G
When he threatened your life with a switch blade knife —
A D
(FRANK) What a guy. (JANET) Makes you cry. (SCOTT) Und I did.
E A E A
(COLUMBIA) Everybody shoved him. I very nearly loved him.
D D7 G
I said, «Hey, listen to me. Stay sane inside insanity.»
E7 A
But he locked the door and threw away the key.
G A D G
(SCOTT) But he must have been drawn into something. Making him warn
A D
me in a note which reads (ALL) What’s it say? What’s it say?
G A D Bm
(EDDIE) I’m out of my hed. O, hurry or I may be dead.
G A
They mustn’t carry out their evil deeds.
(Repeat CHORUS twice; the second time the last line goes:)
G A D
(FRANK) What a guy. (JANET) Makes you cry. (SCOTT) Und I did.
C# D
(ALL) Woe woe.
