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Author: They Might Be Giants
Sung by: John Linnell
Length: 2:32
On Albums: They Might Be Giants, One Little Indian, Just Is, Then: The Earlier Years, Selections From The 2-CD Retrospective, Restless Catalog Sampler, Ana Ng, Giants Jubilee, Video Compilation, Live New York City, Don't Let's Start, The Videos 1986-1989, Live!! New York City 10/14/94, One Little Indian Greatest Hits Volume Two, Miscellaneous T: the B Side/Remix Compilation, They Might Be Giants (`1985 Demo Tape')

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 Em+maj7 can be played 021000
 Em+dom7       "       020000
 Em+6          "       042000

 or you can just play the second line of the chorus as:  Em  G  A  D
 and the coda as:  Em  G  D  G.


G                   C                   Em                  A
Don't     don't  don't  let's start          this is the worst part

Em        Em+maj7   G                   A                   D
  could believe for all the world  that you're  my precious little   girl but

G                   C                   Em                  A
don't     don't  don't  let's start          I've got a weak heart        and

G                   C                   A                   D
I   don't    get   around     how  you  get   around


G                   C                   F                   D
When  you   are    alone  you  are  the cat, you  are  the  phone, you are an

G                   C                   F                   D
animal


Em                                      F
D         world   destruction           O    ver   and      overture

G                                       C                   C7
N         do   I    need     apostrophe T     need  this    torture


D
I   don't want to   live      in   this world               anymore

D
I   don't want to   live      in   this world


Coda:
Em        Em+maj7   Em+dom7   Em+6      D                   G

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