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Version 1
            Hi all! This is not how jackson plays it, it is a simplyfied version acoustic guitar 
basic chords.
The chords are G, D, and C. You can add in solos between verses if you like, anything in 
scale of G works well. You can use any basic strumming rythms. It helps to get quieter 
slower towards the end of the piece.
It's a very free-flowing song, so it helps to experiment to get your own style of playing.
Intro: G D G C
G                   D
You take Sally, and I'll take Sue
G                         C
There ain't no difference between the two
G        D                     C
Cocaine, running all around my brain*
G
Headin' down Scott
D
And turning out Maine
G
Lookin for that girl
C
who sells cocaine
G                              D
Cocaine, running all around my brain
G           D
Oohh, mama, please come quick,
G                  C
That old cocaine's gonna make me sick
G        D                     C
Cocaine, running all around my brain*
G                      D
Late one night about a quarter past four
G                     C
Ladanyi knock down my hotel room door
G                                  D
"Where's the cocaine?" I said it's running all around my brain*
G D G C
G                      D
Went to see the doctor down the hospital
         G                      C    (fade chord)
He said, "Son it says here your 27, but that's impossible"
G        D                           C
Cocaine, "You look like you could be 45."
G D G C
(slow down on this next verse)
G
Now I'm losing touch with reality
D
I'm on my final blow
G                        C
It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go,
G        D                     C
Cocaine, running all around my brain
(optional) Short solo in G scale or G D G C,  then G7.
*Optional solo 
        
                