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Michael Jackson - Thriller Transpose up Transpose down

Originally in C#m, I play in Am

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

Am7D7

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

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

It’s close to D7midnight and something evil’s lurking in the Am7dark

Under the D7moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heartAm7

You try to D7scream but terror takes the sound before you Am7make it

You start to D7freeze as horror looks you right between the Am7eyes

You’re paraClyzed

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

‘Cause this is Amthriller, AmthrilG/Bler Cnight

And D7no one’s gonna save you from the Dm7beast about to strike

You know it’s Amthriller, AmthrilG/Bler Cnight

You’re D7fighting for your life inside a F7killer, D7thriller, toAm7night

Am7

You hear the D7door slam and realize there’s nowhere left to runAm7

You feel the D7cold hand and wonder if you’ll ever see the sunAm7

You close your D7eyes and hope that this is just imagiAm7nation

But all the D7while you hear the creature creepin’ up beAm7hind

You’re out of Ctime

‘Cause this is Amthriller, AmthrilG/Bler Cnight

There D7ain’t no second chance to kill the Dm7thing with forty eyes girl

AmThriller, AmthrilG/Bler Cnight

You’re D7fighting for your life inside a F7killer, D7thriller, Am7tonight

Am7

Vox up to the 5 of the first chord

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

D7Night creatures call and the dead start to walk in their Fmaj7masquerade G

Am7There’s no escapin’ the Am7/Gjaws of the alien this F#m7b5time

Fmaj7This is the end of your E7sus4lifeE7

Am7

They’re out to D7get you there’s demons closing in on every sideAm7

They will posD7sess you unless you change the number on your Am7dial

Now is the D7time for you and I to cuddle close toAm7gether

All through the D7night I’ll save you from the terror on the Am7screen

I’ll make you Csee

That this is Amthriller, AmthrilG/Bler Cnight

‘Cause D7I can thrill you more than any Dm7ghost would ever dare try

AmThriller, AmthrilG/Bler Cnight

So D7let me hold you tight and share a F7killer, D7thriller,Am7ow!

Am7I’m gonna thrill you tonight

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

Am7FGD

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