Guitar Tab:Certain People I Could Name

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Certain People I Could Name

By: They Might Be Giants

Key: D Major

Year: 1996

Intro: D A7 (x4) Piano intro approximated for guitar: D A7 D A7 B|-----3----------2--------3--------2-| G|-----2------0-2----------2------0---| D|-0---4----2----------0---4----2-----| A|----------0-------------------0-----| D A7 D A7 D A7 D A7 The few surviving samurai surveyed the battlefield D A7 D A7 D A7 D Count the arms the legs and heads and then divide by five G D A7 D Drenched in blood they move across the screen G Em A Do I need to point or do you see the one I mean? D/F# G The one in back, the way he acts G D/F# G A Bm Is he reminding you of anyone we know? D/A G D/F# Em A D Isn't he so like certain people I could name? Instrumental 1: Bm/F# E/G# A/E D/F# G/D C#/F F#/C# A B|-3-3-3-5-5-5--2-2-2-3-3-3--------2-2-2----| G|---------------------------4-4-4--------3-| D A7 D A7 D A7 D D5 Halfway through the 30 minutes, halfway 'round the world D A7 D A7 D A7 D A7 Here's the story on the genocidal overlord G D A7 D A7 In her palace with her epaulettes G Em Em/F# A7/G A7 Watch her little gestures as she lights her cigarette D/F# G Look at her, you must see it too G D/F# G A Bm Is she reminding you of anyone we know? D/A G D/F# Em A D Isn't she so like certain people I could name? Instrumental 2: Bm/F# E/G# A/E D/F# G/D C#/F F#/C# B|-3-3-3-5-5-5--2-2-2-3-3-3--------2-2-2----| G|---------------------------4-4-4--------3-| G/D C/E F#/C# B/D# E E7/D A B|-------2-2-2------------------------------| G|-4-4-4--------3-3-3-4-4-4--1-1-1-4-4-4--2-| D A D A (single notes) Disembodied and detached, a voice describes the scene D A7 D A7 D A7 D D5 As a lizard stalks a helpless creature on TV G D A7 D Music underscores the tragedy G G/D G/E G/F# G Em/A Em/B A/C# A/D Eyes with no expression watch the unsuspecting prey D D/F# G G Who is it like? Doesn't it strike you as the G D/F# G A very image of someone we Bm D/A G D/F# know? Isn't it so like certain Em7 D/F# G A people, how could anybody Bm D/A G D/F# miss the obvious and the G D/F# G Aadd4 Bm uncanny and the clear resemblance? D/A G D/F# Isn't it just like certain Em7 D/F# G A D A7 D peo-ple I could name? Repeat Instrumental 1 Bm/F# E/G# A/E D/F# G/D C#/F F#/C# A D