You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Thurl Ravenscroft)

Intro:
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Verse 1:
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You're a mean one,     Mister Grinch
    Am     D     E
You really are a heel
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You're as cuddly as cactus
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You're as charming as an eel
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Mister Gr - i - nch
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You're a bad banana with a
             Am    Dm
greasy black peel

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Verse 2:
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You're a monster,     Mister Grinch
     Am         D     E
Your heart's an empty hole
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Your brain is full of spiders
           G             C
You've got garlic in your soul
       F        E
Mister Gr - i - nch


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I wouldn’t touch you with a...
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Thirty-nine and a half foot pole

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Verse 3:
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You're a vile one,      Mister Grinch
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You have termites in your smile
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You have all the tender sweetness of
  G       C
a seasick crocodile
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Mister Gr - i - nch
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Given the choice between the two of you
                     Am      Dm
I'd take the seasick crocodile

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Verse 4:
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You're a rotter,     Mister Grinch
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You're the king of sinful sots
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Your heart's a dead tomato splotched
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With moldy purple spots
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Mister Gr - i - nch
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You're a three-decker

sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich
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With arsenic sauce

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Verse 5:
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You nauseate me,      Mister Grinch,
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With a nauseous super "naus"
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You're a crooked jerky jockey
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and you drive a crooked horse
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Mister Gr - i – nch
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Your soul is an appalling dump-heap,
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overflowing with the most disgraceful
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assortment of rubbish imaginable
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Mangled-up and tangled-up knots

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Verse 6:
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You're a foul one,     Mister Grinch
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You're a nasty-wasty skunk
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Your heart is full of unwashed socks
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Your soul is full of gunk
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Mister Gr - i - nch
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The three words that best describe you
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are as follows, And I quote:
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Stink!..., stank!..., stunk!