Guitar Tab:Snapping Turtle

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Snapping Turtle

By: They Might Be Giants

Key: D Major, chorus in F Major

Year: 1999

Tabbed By: Lukehennisch

A D G Bm A D G Once, there was a man named Stryker Bm A D G Bm Who had a pond with ducks and snapping A D G Bm A turtles in it A D G Bm A D G Ducks are food for snapping turtles Bm A D G Bm A They swim around in circles till the turtles D G Bm A get them G A D/F# G And he vainly tried to save the ducks from A D G A D snapping turtles G A D/F# G A And as far as he could tell turtles embodied D G A D evil F Dm Bb Gm C F Dm Then, they got some information Bb Gm C F Dm A man who drank too much would help Bb Gm C F Dm Bb C him market snapping turtle soup A D G Bm A D G Once, there was a man named Stryker Bm A D G Bm Who had a pond with only snapping A D G Bm A turtles in it G A D/F# G And in time he changed his mind about the A D G A D snapping turtles G A D/F# G And he ran his business with the turtles A D G A D as example G A D/F# G And the drunk who sold the soup beheld the A D G A D man named Stryker G A D/F# G And he felt he was a duck and Stryker A D G A D was a turtle [Stylophone Solo] F Dm Bb Gm C F Dm Bb Gm C F Dm Bb Gm C F Dm Bb C A D G Bm A D G Then, the drunk took Stryker’s rifle Bm A D G Bm The one that Stryker used to shoot the A D G Bm A snapping turtles G A D/F# G And the drunk who sold the soup beheld the A D G A D man named Stryker G A D/F# G And he felt he was a duck and Stryker A D G A D was a turtle G A D/F# G And he vainly tried to save the ducks from A D G A D snapping turtles G A D/F# G A And as far as he could tell turtles embodied D G A D evil