Intro: E then riff
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E E Eadd9 E7 E6 E (use the pinkie)
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Get your car out of the parking lot,
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N.Y. city's getting much too hot
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Way down Island there's a real cool breeze,
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BRIDGE
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D A E A Bm
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baby get ready, the pressure's off, your body's hot, you got a good personality,
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A E A Bm
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my hand goes down your heart beat's up I can't go back to reality
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CHORUS
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E Eadd9 E Eadd9 E7 E6 E
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The weekend's too short, ooh yeah
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The weekend's too short, ooh yeah
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Instrumental
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Bless that bible, let the liquor run (the weekend's too short, ooh)
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before they raise the drinking age to 21 (the weekend's too short, ooh)
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Two days time it's going back to the grind (the weekend's too short, ooh)
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BRIDGE
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And the party's all over,
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the time goes fast, our love will last, can't past the test of reality
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my hand goes down your heart beat's up I said with some finality
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REPEAT CHORUS then instrumental with solo
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Get your car out of the parking lot, N.Y. city's getting much too hot
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Way down Island there's a real cool breeze, baby get ready,
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the pressure's off, your body's hot, you got a good personality,
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my hand goes down your heart beat's up I can't go back to reality
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REPEAT CHORUS (three times)
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The weekend's too short
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Graham Parker |