Am
- C Am
She asks me why, why I’m a hairy guy,
Am C Am
I'm hairy noon and night
(every night, night) my hair is a fright.
Em C - Em G
I'm hairy high and low, don't ask me why !
‘Cause he don't know !
Em C Em G F G
It's not for lack of bread
like the Grateful Dead, darling.
Am F
Am C
1. Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful
hair,
Am F Am C
shining,
gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen.
Em C Em G
Give me down to there (hair!),
shoulder length, longer (hair!),
Em C
- Em G
here,
baby, there mama, everywhere,
daddy, daddy.
Am F Am
C
Hair, hair ! Hair, hair !
Hair, hair, hair !
-
G - C7 - F G C
Flow it, show it, long as I can grow it, my hair
!
Am F Am C
2. Let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees,
Am F Am
give
a home to the fleas in my hair.
Em C Em G
A home for fleas, a hive for buzzing
bees,
Em
C
a
nest for birds, there ain't no words
Em G
for
the beauty, the splendor, the wonder of my ...
+ CHORUS
- - - -
- E Bm
I want it long, straight,
curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty,
Am A
oily,
greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen,
D D7 D D7
knotted,
polka-dotted, twisted, beaded, braided,
D D7
powdered,
flowered, and confettied,
D D7
G
bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied
!
C Am D G
Oh say, can you see my eyes,
if you can, then my hair's too short !
Am F Am F
Down to here, down to there,
down to there, down to where
G - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
it
stops by itself ! - You’ll never have to cut it ‘cause it stops by itself.
Am F Am C
3. Oh, gimme a head with hair, long beautiful
hair,
Am F Am C
shining,
gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen.
Em C
Em G
I want to gimme
down to there (hair!), shoulder length, longer (hair!),
Em
C - Em
G
here,
baby, there mama, everywhere,
daddy, daddy.
Am F Am C
Hair, hair ! Hair, hair !
Hair, hair, hair !
-
G - C7 - F G
Flow it, show it, long as I can grow it, my....
+ repeat last CHORUS
Am F Am C Am
+ Hair, hair ! Hair, hair ! Hair, hair, hair ! (2x) + Hair ! + Am - G - E
(orig. = capo 3rd) (The Cowsills)