They Might Be Giants - Turn Around guitar tab

Turn Around by They Might Be Giants

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1.

G - - -

I was working all night in my office, when a man I had recently killed

C - D -

called me up from a phone near my building, so I looked out the window at him

E - Am / G C / D

he had the same obsequious manner that was the reason I had him killed

B Em / D A D

so to calm my nerves I sang this song to him over the phone:

Chorus:

G - - -

Turn around, turn around - there's a thing there that can be found

G G7 G6 G

turn around, turn around - it's a human skull on the ground

C - G -

human skull on the ground - turn around

2.

I was out by myself in the graveyard

I was doing an interpretive dance

when I felt something heavy and pointed

strike me in the back of my neck

and then the ghost of my dance instructor

pushed me down into an open grave

and as dirt rained down she played a xylophone

and sang me this song:

(Chorus)

3.

We were waving our arms out the window

of a fast-moving passenger train

acting in an irresponsible fashion

until the engineer whose back had been turned

and who we thought would find us highly amusing

quickly swivelled his head around

and his face which was a paper-white mask of evil

sang us this song:

(Chorus)

-E.M.