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Chris Michaels - The Fiery Furnaces
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Tabbed by: The Valrus
Email: valrus@bluebottle.com
Tuning: Standard
Notes: TOOK... FOREVER.
Divided into sections for your delectation, since this is about
six songs in one.
Most sections are verse-chorus-verse-chorus with identical chords
for the two V-C pars; this is indicated in the tab. I included
ALL the lyrics; email if you think I should remove the ones
that don't actually have chords above them. That said, here we go:
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[D]
[D] [C] [A7]
Later at lunch with the taco lettuce crunch crunch
[A7]
She sets herself apart the bunch
[G] [E] [G] [D]
How bad does she seem? She makes me wanna scream.
[C] [A7]
On the phone with the West Glen Ellen rest home
[A7]
Talking up a tattle tome
[G] [E] [G] [D] [D] [A] [C] [G]
How bad does she seem? She makes me wanna scream.
[F#] [A]
My mama's gonna babysit tonight, did you hear Melinda got into a fight
[Bb5]
You whore you bitch she said well that serves her right
[repeat above chords]
Talking all mad, you know she really isn't being sad
Her baby daddy's name is Tad
How bad does she seem? She makes me wanna scream.
Well yesterday you know she didn't none of that to say
She queen bee turned and walked away.
How bad does she seem? She makes me wanna scream.
Her boyfriend calls her up on the other line
She tells him sweetie sweetie sweetie sweetie mine
He spaces out and thinks to himself all the time:
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[E5] [Bb5]
My baby's got a stick stuck out her beak!
My baby takes a drink out of the leak!
My baby's got a blue-green sweater
[A5]
And a nest down by the creek.
[E5] [F#5] [A]
Plume bloom bloom blaby bloom, cheep cheep beep bee bee beep!
[repeat above chords]
Where did you for lunchtime go?
Did Kevin and Jenny show?
Do you wanna go out tonight?
No.
Plume bloom bloom blaby bloom, cheep cheep beep bee bee beep!
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[Ebm] [Bb]
Remember that girl down the end? She was my friend.
[Ebm]
But just now she's angry, came up
[D5] [A5] [D5] [A5]
And said you're so so stup, it's all disrup
[D5] [A5] [B5]
You blah blah this this that, so now shup
[B5]
You messed it up.
[Ebm] [Bb]
[repeat above chords]
Remember that girlfriend of Al's? Well we were pals.
Today she was angry, came up
And said you're so so stup, it's all disrup
You blah blah this this that, so now shup
You mess me up.
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[E5] [A5]
Then Tony, of the Franklin Park Hockey Club
[B5] [G5]
Went to Gunzo's and bought a goalie glove
[E5] [A5]
Jessica was supposed to meet him back of Mannheim
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[B5] [G5]
Kitchen back door by all the grease and grime.
[D5] [C5] [G5] [F5]
Was a little bird at my back door, said your true love's let you down.
Was a little bird at my window, said that he's been runnin' round.
He's working up the courage so to leave you.
He's getting ready to say he don't love you.
[repeat above chords]
Well Tony took it all in stride
Said "don't be silly" but wondered who had spied
Jessica, driving down Wolf Road
Roll up the windows baby, talk in code.
I'm the little bird at your back door, said your true love's let you down.
I'm the little bird through your chimney, said that he's been runnin' round.
He's working up the courage so to leave you.
He's getting ready to say he don't love you.
[E]
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[B7] [E] [F] [F#]
Then she bumped into purses, stole a credit card
[D] [C#]
Writing Chris Michaels, no it wasn't hard
[B7] [E] [F] [F#]
Number five terminal with the yogurt cup
[D] [C#]
Reading a young miss as she slurps it up
[A] [G]
Nasty message when he don't pick up
[repeat above chords]
Layover Aden, watch the local news
Ninety-nine and humid, all the Red Sea blues
Landing in Delhi, take a third class train
Umbrella vendor in the autumn rain
Then the cops come by and ask your name
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[C#7] [F#]
With his chillum and chillum chee
[C#7] [F#]
The cazee sentences me
[E] [B]
So now go where you're supposed to be
[D D D] [G G G] [C#7]
And give up your Devi Desi
[C#7] [F#]
I's paraded on through the choke
[C#7] [F#]
When my leg irons broke
[E] [B]
And my bicycle wheel spoke
[D D D] [G G G] [C#7]
The Bombay Army's no joke.
[F#7] [B7] [C#7] [F#]
[F#7] [B7] [C#7] [F#]
[repeat above chords]
On the top of a Naracan Dam
Started our picnic then Bam!
My Devi 'n me had to scram
Quick down to Madras a’lamb
Thought as a tindal that I could blend
As I got to pretend
From laziness, the gang defend
Pick up your pick axe and rend!
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[F] [G]
Fasten your seatbelt and take hold of my arm
[F] [E]
That's what she said before set off my alarm
[C C C C] [A] [C C C C] [A]
Baby gotta go, baby gotta go.
[D] [G]
I know
[G] [D] [C]
She's gonna go
[D] [G]
I know
[G] [C C C C] [A]
She's gonna go
[repeat above chords]
Down in Columbo girl whatever you want
But then the surf and cobras, tigers all taunt
Baby gotta go, baby gotta go.
I know
She's gonna go
I know
She's gonna go
[B B B B] [E]
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