------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Michaels - The Fiery Furnaces ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: /*==================================|Chords|==================================*/ D DCA7 Later at lunch with the taco lettuce crunch crunch A7 She sets herself apart the bunch GEGD How bad does she seem? She makes me wanna scream. CA7 On the phone with the West Glen Ellen rest home A7 Talking up a tattle tome GEGDDACG How bad does she seem? She makes me wanna scream. FA 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: /*=====================================||=====================================*/ EBb5 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. EFA5 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! /*=====================================||=====================================*/ EBb Remember that girl down the end? She was my friend. Ebm But just now she's angry, came up DADA5 And said you're so so stup, it's all disrup DAB5 You blah blah this this that, so now shup B5 You messed it up. EBb 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. /*=====================================||=====================================*/ EA5 Then Tony, of the Franklin Park Hockey Club BG5 Went to Gunzo's and bought a goalie glove EA5 Jessica was supposed to meet him back of Mannheim BG5 Kitchen back door by all the grease and grime. DCGF5 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 /*=====================================||=====================================*/ BEFF# Then she bumped into purses, stole a credit card DC# Writing Chris Michaels, no it wasn't hard BEFF# Number five terminal with the yogurt cup DC# Reading a young miss as she slurps it up AG 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 /*=====================================||=====================================*/ CF# With his chillum and chillum chee CF# The cazee sentences me EB So now go where you're supposed to be D GG C#7 And give up your Devi Desi CF# I's paraded on through the choke CF# When my leg irons broke EB And my bicycle wheel spoke D GG C#7 The Bombay Army's no joke. FBCF# FBCF# 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! /*=====================================||=====================================*/ FG Fasten your seatbelt and take hold of my arm FE That's what she said before set off my alarm CCCCACC A C Baby gotta go, baby gotta go. DG I know GDC She's gonna go DG I know GCCCCA 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 BBBBE /*=====================================||=====================================*/