Michael Jackson - Thriller

Originally in C#m, I play in Am

Be sure to work out the melody ahead of time for the chorus and bridge

Am7	D7

The original does i → IV for the first half of each verse,

I’m following an arrangement that’s IV → i the whole verse.

	D7	Am7
It’s close to	midnight and something evil’s lurking in the	dark

	D7	Am7
Under the	moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart

	D7	Am7
You try to	scream but terror takes the sound before you	make it

	D7	Am7
You start to	freeze as horror looks you right between the	eyes

	C
You’re para	lyzed

Original vox on 1 7 on “thriller”, I just do 5 5

	Am	Am	G/B	C
‘Cause this is	thriller,	thril	ler	night

	D7	Dm7
And	no one’s gonna save you from the	beast about to strike

	Am	Am	G/B	C
You know it’s	thriller,	thril	ler	night

	D7	F7	D7	Am7
You’re	fighting for your life inside a	killer,	thriller, to	night

Am7

	D7	Am7
You hear the	door slam and realize there’s nowhere left to run

	D7	Am7
You feel the	cold hand and wonder if you’ll ever see the sun

	D7	Am7
You close your	eyes and hope that this is just imagi	nation

	D7	Am7
But all the	while you hear the creature creepin’ up be	hind

	C
You’re out of	time

	Am	Am	G/B	C
‘Cause this is	thriller,	thril	ler	night

	D7	Dm7
There	ain’t no second chance to kill the	thing with forty eyes girl

Am	Am	G/B	C
Thriller,	thril	ler	night

	D7	F7	D7	Am7
You’re	fighting for your life inside a	killer,	thriller,	tonight

Am7

Vox up to the 5 of the first chord

Can also do 3 2 1 on the first chord on “night creatures”

D7	Fmaj7	G
Night creatures call and the dead start to walk in their	masquerade

Am7	Am7/G	F#m7b5
There’s no escapin’ the	jaws of the alien this	time

Fmaj7	E7sus4	E7
This is the end of your	life

Am7

	D7	Am7
They’re out to	get you there’s demons closing in on every side

	D7	Am7
They will pos	sess you unless you change the number on your	dial

	D7	Am7
Now is the	time for you and I to cuddle close to	gether

	D7	Am7
All through the	night I’ll save you from the terror on the	screen

	C
I’ll make you	see

	Am	Am	G/B	C
That this is	thriller,	thril	ler	night

	D7	Dm7
‘Cause	I can thrill you more than any	ghost would ever dare try

Am	Am	G/B	C
Thriller,	thril	ler	night

	D7	F7	D7	Am7
So	let me hold you tight and share a	killer,	thriller,	ow!

Am7

I’m gonna thrill you tonight

End on “thrill you tonight”, or keep going if appropriate...

Am7	F	G	D
			Darkness falls across the land the midnight hour is close at hand

Creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize y’all’s neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell and rot inside a corpse's shell

The foulest stench is in the air the funk of forty thousand years
And grizzy ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist the evil of the thriller