Guitar Tab:Purple Toupee
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| Purple Toupee |
| By: They Might Be Giants |
| Key: Mainly in G major |
| Year: 1988 |
| Tabbed By: E.M. |
Intro:
N.C. for two quarter beats;
E (2 1/4 beats; Bass notes: E/F#/G#/A)
A D E C# F#m B
E A B E
G|----1-2----1-------2-1--|
D|2-4-----------4---------|
A|------------------------|
E|------------------------|
1.
G - C G
I remember the year I went to camp
C G A D
heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks
G - C G
somebody put their fingers in the president's ears
C G D G
and it wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's Wax
D - G -
I remember the book depository
D - G -
where they crowned the king of Cuba
G - C G
That's all I can think of but I'm sure there's something else
C G D E
way down inside me I can feel it coming back
Chorus:
A D E C# F#m B
Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down
E A B E
(purple toupee when summer brings you down)
A D E C# F#m B
Purple toupee and gold lamé will turn your brain around
E A B E
(purple toupee and gold lamé)
2.
Chinese people were fighting in the park
we tried to help them fight no one appreciated that
Martin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottoms
ten years later they were sharing the same cell
I shouted out, "Free the Expo '67"
till they stepped on my hair and they told me I was fat
Now I'm very big I'm a big important man
and the only thing that's different is underneath my hat
(Chorus)
F#m B E C#7
Purple toupee is here to stay
F#m B E E7/D
after the hair has gone away
A - B - E
the purple brigade is marching from the grave
Bb F Ebadd9
Bb
La la la la la la la la
F
La la la la la la
Ebadd9
La la la
Bb
We're on some kind of mission
F
we have an obligation
Ebadd9
we have to wear toupees
G
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[Here's some alternate chords that may be a bit easier... or perhaps not. :)
In any case, capo up 2]
G C D B Em A
D G A D
1.
F - Bb F
Bb F G C
F - Bb F
Bb F C F
C - F -
C - F -
F - Bb F
Bb F C D
Chorus:
|: G C D B Em A
D G A D :|
Em A D B
Em A D C
G - A - D
Ab
Eb
Db
F
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
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