{"id":20444,"date":"2024-04-24T23:43:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T23:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=20444"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:46:29","slug":"purple-people-eater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/purple-people-eater\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple People Eater"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley\r\nNote: #1 in 1958\r\n \r\n(Original keys. Check it out on YouTube)\r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[C] Well, I saw the thing comin' out of the sky,\r\n<\/span>it had [G7] one long horn, [C] one big eye.\r\n<\/span>I commenced to shakin' and I [F] said \"ooh-eee!\",\r\n<\/span>It [G7] looks like a purple people [C] eater to me.\r\n<\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n[C] It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater.\r\n<\/span>[G7] (One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)\r\n<\/span>A [C] one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater.\r\n<\/span>[G7] Sure looks strange to [C] me. (One eye?)\r\n<\/span> \r\n(Change keys)\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nWell, he [D] came down to earth and he lit in a tree.\r\n<\/span>I said, [A7] \"Mr. Purple People Eater, [D] don't eat me.\"\r\n<\/span>I [D] heard him say in a [G] voice so gruff:\r\n<\/span>[A7 NC] \"I wouldn't eat you cause you're so tough!\"\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n[D] It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater.\r\n<\/span>[A7] <\/span>One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater.\r\n<\/span>[D] <\/span>One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater.\r\n<\/span>[A7] <\/span>Sure looks strange to [D] me. (One horn?)\r\n<\/span> \r\n(Change keys)\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[E] I said, \"Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line?\"\r\n<\/span>He said, [B] \"It's eatin' purple people, and it [E] sure is fine.\r\n<\/span>[A] But that's not the reason that I came to land..\r\n<\/span>I [B] wanna get a job in a [E] rock and roll band.\"\r\n<\/span> \r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[E] Well, bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater.\r\n<\/span>[B] Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater.\r\n<\/span>[E] (We wear short shorts) Flyin' purple people eater..\r\n<\/span>[B] Sure looks strange to [E] me.\r\n<\/span> \r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[E] And then he swung from the tree and he lit on the ground,\r\n<\/span>He [B] started to rock, really [E] rockin' around.  <\/span>It was a crazy ditty with a [A] swingin' tune..\r\n<\/span>Sing a [B] bop bop-a-lu-op and a [E] lim-bam-boom.\r\n<\/span>  \r\n(Change keys)\r\n \r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[E] <\/span>And then he went on his way, and then [F] what do ya know?\r\n<\/span>I [C] saw him last night on a [F] TV show.   <\/span>[Bb] He was blowing it out, a'really knockin' 'em dead..\r\n<\/span>Playin' [C] rock and roll music through the [C] horn in his [F] head.\r\n<\/span> \r\nF \/\/ T e q u i l a!\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
VERIFY KEY CHANGES BEFORE LIVE The Purple People Eater – Sheb Wooley Note: #1 in 1958 (Original keys. Check it out on YouTube) [Verse 1] [C] Well, I saw the thing comin’ out of the sky, it had [G7] one long horn, [C] one big eye. I commenced to shakin’ … CLICK TO VIEW SONGPurple People Eater<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,265,90,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-best-songs","category-halloween","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30231,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20444\/revisions\/30231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}