Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song The Mesopotamians
Album: The Else
Verse 1:
Dm Gm
We've been driving around
Dm Gm Bb C
From one end of this town to the other and back
Bb F Bb F Bb
But no one's ever seen us (No one's ever seen us)
Bb F Bb
Driving our Econoline van (And no one's ever heard of our band)
C A
And no one's ever heard of our band
Chorus:
D D[C#] Bm
We're the Mesopota- mi - ans
Bm[A G Gsus4[F#] Em A
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh
Bridge:
D D[C#] Bm Bm[A] G
Then they wouldn't understand a word we say,
Gm F#m
So we'll scratch it all down into the clay
B Em
Half believing there will sometime come a day someone gives a damn
A
Maybe when the concrete has crumbled to sand
Chorus:
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh
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Bridge:
The Mesopotam-ish sun is beating down
Dm Gm
And making cracks in the ground
Bb C
But there's nowhere else to stand
Bb F Bb Bb F Bb
In Mesopotamia, (No one's ever seen us)
Bb F Bb C
The kingdom where we secretly reign (And no one's ever heard of our band)
A
The land where we invisibly rule
Chorus:
As the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh
Bridge:
D Bm
This is my last stick of gum
Em G
I'm going to cut it up so everybody else gets some
F#m B C A
Except for Ashurbanipal who says my haircut makes me look like aMohenjodaroan
A
Hey, Ashurbanipal,
Chorus:
I'm a Mesopota-mi -an
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh
Bridge:
G Em
"Hey, man, I thought that you were dead
C Am
I thought you crashed your car"
Em A Em A
"No, man, I've been right here this whole time playing bass guitar
For the Mesopotamians"
Chorus:
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh
