Giants - Instanbul guitar tab

From uunet!stanford.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!indigo Mon Oct 19 18:25:36 PDT 1992

Subject: CRD: They Might Be Giants "Istanbul"

ISTANBUL (Not Constantinople) [by Jimmy Kennedy & Nat Simon]

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[These are the chords I remember from my piano-playing days; ]

[actually, They Might Be Giants' recording of this song is in F#m, ]

[not Am, but do _you_ want to play it in F#m? Not me. If you ]

[must be accurate, transpose this to Em and capo up two frets. ]

[The whole song isn't here, but it should be enough so that you ]

[can figure out the intro and solo yourself. Oh, and the groovy ]

[chord at the end is an Am(#7), which is x02110 or x06554. ]

[Each chord is one measure, except "X - Y" is one measure TOTAL. ]

Am Am Am Am

Istanbul was Constantinople, now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

E7 E7

Been a long time gone, old Constantinople

Am - Dm Dm - Am

Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Am Am Am Am

Every gal in Constantinople lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople

E7 E7 Am - E7 Am

So if you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul

Am Am Am Am

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

Bm7-5 E7 Am E7

Why they changed it I can't say, people just liked it better that way

Am Am Am Am

So take me back to Constantinople, no you can't go back to Constantinople

E7 E7 Am Am

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople, why did Constantinople get the works?

E7 Am

That's nobody's business but the Turks

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Adam Schneider indigo@ucscb.ucsc.edu U.C. Santa Cruz

"Your actions will follow you full circle 'round..."

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