Contents:
God Shuffled His Feet
Afternoons and Coffespoons
Mmm Mmm Mmm MmmIn the Days of the Caveman
Swimming In Your Ocean
Here I Stand Before Me
I Think I'll Disappear Now
How Does a Duck Know
When I Go Out With Artists
The Psychic
Two Knights and Maidens
God Shuffled His Feet
After seven days, he was
The people sipped their wine, and what with
So he said once there was a boy, who
The people sat wait ing out on their
Quite tired, so God said
God there, they asked him ques tions, like
woke up with blue hair. To
blankets in the gar den. But
Let there be a day just for
Do you have to eat, or get your
him it was a joy, until he
God said noth ing. So someone
Picnics, with wine and bread
hair cut in hea ven
ran out into the warm air
asked him, beg your par don
Gathered up some people he had made
And if your eye got poked out in this life,
He thought of how his friends would come to see
I'm not quite clear a bout what you just spoke
Created blankets and laid back in the shade
would it be waiting up in heaven with your wife
and would they laugh or had he got some strange dis ease
Was that a parable or a very subtle joke
ChorusLA MI LA
God shuffled his feet and glanced a round at them
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him
[Intro - 4/4 time, all chords 1/2 measure each]
[Verses]
FA DO FA SIb DO
What is it that makes me just a little bit queasy
Times when the day is like a play by Sartre
Maybe if I could do a play by playback
There's a breeze that makes my breathing not so easy
When it seems a book burning's in perfect order
I could change the test results that I will get back
SOL# DO# MIb
I've had my lungs checked out with X rays
I gave the doctor my de scription
I've watched the summer evenings pass by
SOL# DO# MIb FAm DO#
I've smelled the hospital hallways
I've tried to stick to my presciptions
I've heard the rattle in my bronchi
FA SIb
Someday I'll have
FA DOa disappearing hair line
Someday I'll wear
FA DOpajamas in the day time
[Extended Chorus (play 2nd and 3d time through)]
SIb FA
Oh .... oh .... oh
After noons will be
SIb REmmeasured out, measured out, and
SIbmeasured with
coffe spoons, and T.S. Eliot
[Intro - 4/4 time, all chords 1/2 measure each]
SOLm7 REm7 SOLm7 REm7 SOL# SIb SOL# SIb
[Verses]
Once there was this kid who
Once there was this girl who
Once there was this boy whose
SOL# MIb SIb MIb
got into an accident and couldn't come to school, but
wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room. And
parents made him come directly home right after school. And
SOL# SIb
when he finally came back
when they finally made her
when they went to their church
his hair had turned from black into bright white. He
they saw birthmarks all over her body. She
they shook and lurched all over the church floor. He
SI MIb SI
said that it was from when the cars had smashed
couldn't quite ex plain it. They'd always just
couldn't quite ex plain it. They'd always just
SIb SOL#
so hard. [To Chorus]
been there. [To Chorus, then to Bridge]
gone there. [To Chorus, then fade]
SOLm7 REm7 SOLm7 REm7 SOL# SIb
[Bridge]
But both girl and boy were glad
FAm MIb SIb SOL#that one kid had it worse than that 'Cause ...
Intro
SOL#m
When you go on camping trips,
You're stuck right out in nature.
MI FA#Foraging the forests like a primate.
MI FA# SOL#m SIUsing sharpened tools instead of hot plates
[Verses]
MI
Your thumb and forefinger
Sometimes when I lie awake,
when I finally get to sleep,
supposed to show you're not a wild beast.
I hear the rainfall on my tent fly.
I dream in Techni color.
MI FA#
You can hear their noises at night time
I think of all the insects that are sleeping,
I see creatures come back from the Ice Age
MI FA# SOL#m SI
They don't have to keep a certain bed time.
and wonder if the animals are dreaming.
alive and being fed inside a zoo cage.
FA# SOL#m MI
See in the shapes of my body
FA# SOL#m MI FA#leftover parts from the apes and monkeys
[Extended Chorus (play 2nd and 3d time through)]
In the days of the caveman,
SOL MImand mammoths, and glaciers.
DO REBugs and trees were your food then
no pajamas, or doctors.
[Intro - 4/4 time, 1 measure per chord]
[Verses]
SOL DO LAm
When I'm sampling from your bosom
When I kneel before your bounty
When you let me taste your fingers
sometimes I suffer from distractions like
sometimes I wonder if there could be really
I take them like fruit and as I linger, I
FAmaj7 LAm DO
Why does God cause things like torna does and train wrecks.
U F O's that come from other planets.
wonder if my seed will find pur chase in your soil.
Chorus
When I'm swimming in, when I'm swimming in your ocean,
DO LAmfloating aloft on creams and scented lotion, well
FA DOI can get pretty sidetracked. I hope you understand.
[Postchorus Instrumental]
[Intro (simple, ain't it?)]
MIsus4
[Verses]
My doctor told me that it was time for me to have my X ray.
Well, take my fingers, what to fingers really mean to me?
[Instrumental 3d verse]
FA#m LA MIsus4
Of course, I had many night mares about the fatal day.
Oh, you can easily look them up in the dictionary.
[Instrumental 3d verse]
LA MI
The room was dark and my skeleton was floating on the wall.
They call them digits or techically they're known as the pha langes.
[Instrumental 3d verse]
My voice trembles down in side me.
My joints con nected up in side me,
My, my the future lay be fore me.
RE SOL LA SOL RE
I'm trapped way down in my body.
way down deep inside my body.
Hey hey, deep inside my body.
Chorus
SOL LA RE
I, I, I, oh here I stand be fore me, but
something's out of place here.
SOL LA REMy mind's eye is missing from my body.
SOL LA REWell, I know it's there, but I can't see where.
[First time through, play G and goto second verse. Second time through,
play Bm -> B and then this bridge]
MI LA SI
My bones shine brightly, a map of my whole body.
My vital organs just churn away in side me. Some-
MI SI MIday they're going to stop this motion, and I'll be left with
[Then play B, D and goto the instrumental third verse.]
[Intro - 4/4 time, 4 distinct beats per chord except for [Csus4-C]
and [Dm-C], which are each 4 beats total]
SIb DO FA DOsus4 SIb DOsus4-C FA SIb FA REm-C
[Vocal Intro]
FA SIb FA REm
Running into you like this without a warning
is like catching a sniff of te quila in the morning.
REm SIbBut I'll try, I'll try to keep my food down.
FA REmThat's quite an aftertaste that you've left now that
you're not a round.
[Verses]
FA SIb FA REm DOsus4
You can just pretend we're not in the same room.
I'll buy a fast car and drive it fast from here.
Well, you can bet that I'll forget how it was then,
SIb DO FA
Well alright I'll just mosey to the bathroom.
There's a beach I haven't seen since last year.
all the drives to your farm for the weekend.
You flew by like a summer vacation
It's far, but I like night drives
But I've seen the swimsuit magazines
FA REm SOLm DO
and you left me with TV movies and a messy kitchen
it just makes it nicer when I do ar rive.
and I've smelled te quila first thing in the morning.
Chorus
I think I'll disap pear now, slip out sideways.
SIb DO LAm REmJust for a while, but un til then, I'll stay in and sleep late. Ex -
SIbcuse me.
[Extended Chorus (play 2nd and 3d times through)]
Aren't you going to miss me?
SOLm FA REm SIm FA SIAren't you going to even say one thing to me anymore.
FA
How does a duck know
DO FA SIbwhat direction south is?
And how to tell his wife from all the other ducks?
You can cut a chicken's head off
RE MI RE LAbut it will keep on running and twitching.
RE MI
When everything seems planned out
RE MIwhen everything seems nicely planned out
well the human race will come and smack your face
How come all my body parts
DO FA SIbso nicely fit to gether?
FA DO FA SIbAll my organs doing their jobs, no help from me.
RE LA
A person pulls a spider's leg out
to watch it keep on moving and twitching.
When everything seems planned out
RE MIwhen everything seems nicely planned out
RE LA MIwell the human race will come and smack your face
SIbmaj7
Satan
lives here
LA SIb MIon grain and earth, rain and air.
RE LA
You can put me in and iron lung
RE MI RE LAand I will keep on breathing and twitching.
RE MI
When everything seems planned out
when everything seems nicely planned out
RE LA MIwell the human race will come and smack your face
RE LA MI REYou might be dead, but you keep your head.
[Intro - 4/4 time, each chord is 1/2 measure]
[Verses]
SIm MI
When I go out with artists,
If I were David Byrne,
FA#m
they talk about the language and the
I'd go to galleries and
cubists and the dadaists and I
not be too con cerned. Well, I would
SIm MI
try to catch their meanings
have a cup of coffee
RE MI LA
and keep up with all of their mar tinis.
and I'd find my sur roundings quite a musing. And
I don't know which should be my favorite paintings.
people would ask me which were my favorite paintings.
[Chorus - Second time through, goto Bridge]
RE
If I could see, if I could see, if I could
see all the symbols, unlock what they mean,
REMaybe I could, maybe I could, maybe I
LAcould meet the artists and get to know them
personal ly --
[Bridge - Play after second Chorus, and then goto Instrumental Bridge]
DO#m LA SI
What if the artists ran the TV?
MI LA SIAll the ads would be for fine scotch or whiskey
Glenfiddich, Glenlivet,
LA MI LAthe whole single malt family --
[Instrumental Bridge - 4/4 time, each chord equals 1/2 measure]
RE RE RE RE LA LA LA FA#m
D D D D A A (NC) (NC)
DO DO MI MI SI SI MI
[Close - Play after Instrumental Bridge]
DO#m FA#
The artists of the future
SOL#mwill make up new things and
different nomen clatures. And they'll
DO#m FA#stand amongst their pictures
MIand they'll sing and
laugh and quote from scriptures. And
FA#when they go home,
SI MI SOL#m FA#They'll dream of brilliant paintings.
MI
If I could see, if I could see, if I could
see all the symbols, unlock what they mean,
MImaybe I could, maybe I could, maybe I
SI SOL#mcould meet the artists and get to know them personally.
If I could see, if I could see, if I could
SI SOL#msee all the symbols, unlock what they mean,
MImaybe I could, maybe I could, maybe I
could meet the artists and
RE FA#m SI SOL#m RE MI SIget to know them personal ly --
[Intro - 4/4 time, all chords represent 1/2 measure]
RE RE SOL SOL RE RE LA LA DO FALA LA RE SOL SOL SOL RE RE RE RE
[Verses]
She knows the fu ture
She said her vis ions
What does she think when
LA RE
like the palm of your hand.
were a bane in her life.
she foretells a dis ease?
SOL DO RE
She knows your past like the
She could not con trol them, they
Would she keep it a se cret if
lay of the land. The
kept her up nights. I
death stood be fore me
LA RE
first time she met me
know what you're thinking
What could some cards hold
SOL RE
she saw right through me, some
haven't been drinking.
Where is her foothold?
cards and a cane in her hand. [To Chorus]
She knew things that cut like a knife. [To Bridge]
Can I escape what she sees? [To Ending]
Chorus
LA
And she said,
All the years that have come to pass and
RE LAall the years that shall be
DO FA LA RE SOLsus2I see here right be fore me.
[Bridge]
LA SIm
Will there be earthquakes and
MIm7 LAgreat tidal waves?
Can she see back to the dinosaur days? How
RE SOL RE SOLcan she fore see just by squinting at me? And
MIm7 SIm LAm LA SOL LA RE SOL REcan she see me naked in her mind's eye
[Ending]
And she said,
RE SOLAll the years that have come to pass and
RE LAall the years that shall be
I see here right be fore me.
DO FA LA RE SOL REI see here before me.
Two
[Chord definitions:
[Intro - 6/8 time, each chord is 1 measure]
LAadd2 MI SIadd4
[Vocal Intro - 6/8 time]
FA#m7(add4) RE MI LAadd2 MIm
Once there were two knights and maidens.
DO#m SIThey'd walk to gether
out in the gar dens
MI LA MI MIsus4 MIin all kinds of weather.
[Verses - 6/8 time]
FA#m7 RE MI MIm
The knights always pestered the maidens
The knights took the potions gladly
The knights only laughed at the tigers
DO#m SI
to love them to gether
They laughed at their visions
they thought they were visions
out in the gar dens and they could watch each other
but outside the gar den tigers smelled them together.
Out in the gar den the maidens watched them together.
LA MI
watch each other [To Chorus]
smelled them together. [To Chorus]
watched them together. [To Ending]
Chorus
The maid ens had other plans for the two knights
SIb DOthey'd give them potions
FA SIband make them see dreams and lights.
[Ending]
Ah ---
DO FA LAmbut for the two knights.
SIb DO FAAh but for maidens who gave to them
dreams and lights.
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