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She asks me why,
I’m just a (Eb)hair y guy.
I’m hair y (Ab)noon and night, (Cm)hair that’s a (Eb)fright.
I’m hair y (Eb)high and low,
don’t ask me (Bb)why, don’t know.
It’s not for (Eb)lack of bread, (Gm)like
the Grate ful (Bb)Dead,
(Ab)darl (Bb)lin’.
(Ab)Give fly me a head in with the breeze hair, and get (Eb)long caught in beau the ti ful trees.
hair.
Give a (Ab)Shin home to ing, the fleas gleam ing, in my (Eb)stream hair.
ing, flax en, wax en.
A (Eb)Give home me down for to there, fleas, hair, a (Bb)shoul hive der length for or long bees.
er.
A (Eb)Here nest for ba birds, by, there there, ain’t no mom words ma, for the beau ev ty, ’ry splen where, dour the dad won dy, der dad of dy, my (Ab)hair.
Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair.
Let it (Ab)Give fly me a head in with the breeze hair, and get (Eb)long caught in beau the ti ful trees.
hair.
Give a (Ab)Shin home to ing, the fleas gleam ing, in my (Eb)stream hair.
ing, flax en, wax en.
A (Eb)Give home me down for to there, fleas, hair, a (Bb)shoul hive der length for or long bees.
er.
A (Eb)Here nest for ba birds, by, there there, ain’t no mom words ma, for the beau ev ty, ’ry splen where, dour the dad won dy, der dad of dy, my (Ab)hair.
Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair.
Let it hair.
I want it (G7)long, straight, curl y, fuz zy, (G7)snag gy, shag gy, rat ty, mat ty, (Cm)oil y, grea sy, flee cy, shin ing, (Cm)gleam ing, stream ing, flax en, wax en, (F7)knot ted, pol ka dot ted, (F7)twist ed, bead ed, braid ed, (F7)pow ered, flow ered and con fet tied, (F7)ban gled, tan gled, span gled and spa (Bb)ghet tied.
Oh (Eb)say, can (Bb)you (Eb)see my eyes?
(Cm)If (F7)you (Bb)can then my hair’s too (Eb)short.
(Ab)Down to here, down to there, (F)down to there, down to where it (Bb)stops by it self.
(Do do (CN.C.)do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do They’ll do be (Ab)do.) ga ga at the go go when they (Cm)see me in my (Eb)to ga, my (Ab)to ga made of blond, bril lian (Cm)tined, bi bli cal (Eb)hair.
My (Eb)hair like Je sus wore it, Hal le (Bb)lu jah I a dore it.
Hal le (Eb)lu jah Mar y loved her son, (Gm)why don’t my (Bb)moth er love me?
(Ab)Hair.
Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my (Ab)Hair.
Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my (Cm)hair.
This page shows “Hair (From 'Hair')” by Galt MacDermot in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of F at 60 BPM, a comfortable easy-level arrangement perfect for first-time learners.