Lookin’ Out My Back Door – Creedence Clearwater Revival

Lookin’ Out My Back Door Chords

Performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Verse 1

B
Just got home from Illinois,
G#m
Lock the front door, oh boy!
E              B
Got to sit down,
………….F#
Take a rest on the porch
..B
Imagination sets in,
G#m
Pretty soon I’m singing
E              B
Doo, doo, doo,
……………..F#                 B
Looking out my back door

………………B
There’s a giant doing cartwheels,
….G#m
A statue wearing high heels
E                       B
Look at all the happy creatures
F#
Dancing on the lawn
B
Dinosaur Victrola,
G#m
Listening to Buck Owens
E               B
Doo, doo, doo,
……………..F#                 B
Looking out my back door

F#
Tambourines and elephants
…….E                        B
Are playing in the band
…………………B
Won’t you take a ride
G#m             F#
On the flying spoon ?
Dood-n-doo-doo

B
Wonderous apparition
……G#m
Provided by magician
E              B
Doo, doo, doo,
…………….F#                 B
Looking out my back door

Music:

F#
Tambourines and elephants
…….E                        B
Are playing in the band
…………………B
Won’t you take a ride
G#m              F#
On the flying spoon ?
Dood-n-doo-doo

B
Bother me tomorrow,
…..G#m
Today I’ll buy no sorrows
E               B
Doo, doo, doo,
……………..F#                 B
Looking out my back door

Music: Scale changes

C#
Forward troubles Illinois,
A#m
Lock the front door, oh boy!
F#                    C#
Look at all the happy creatures
G#
Dancing on the lawn
C#
Bother me tomorrow,
…..A#m
Today I’ll buy no sorrows
F#            C#
Doo, doo, doo,
…………….G#                 C#
Looking out my back door

End