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"Godzilla": Blue Oyster Cult
"Godzilla": Blue Oyster Cult
OYSTER
CULT
As heard on SPECTRES (COLUMBIA)
Wordsand Music by Donald Roeser * Transcribedby Jeff Perrin
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[ID Ve r se (0:21)
purposeful grimace and a terrible sound he pulls the spitting high tension wires down Helpless people on subway trains
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Gtr. I plays Rhy. Fig. I five times (see bar I)
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picks up a bus and he throws it back down as he wades through the build ings through the center of town
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"GODZILLX'
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Oh no they say he's got t o go go go Godzilla
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Oh no there goesTokyo go go Godzilla
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spok e n: Rinj i news o mashiagemasu Rinji news o mashiagemasu Godzilla ga Glnzahoomen e mukatte imasu Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai
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"GODZILLX'
Im 3 rd C hor us (2:29)
no They say he's got to go Go go Godzilla
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Gtr. 1 plays Rhy. Fig. 1 twice (see bar J)
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