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: 1999

Intro: Piano arranged for guitar: e|----------------------------------------- B|----------------------------------------- G|-----7-----------6---------7---------6--- D|-----7-------5-7-----------7-------5----- A|-5---------7-----------5--------7-------- E|----------------------------------------- D - - - The few surviving samurai surveyed the battlefield D - - - Count the arms the legs and heads and then divide by five G - 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 G The one in back, the way he acts G G/F# G A Bm Is he reminding you of a - nyone we know? A G G Em A D Isn't he so like certain people I could name? Something like this sounds just fine: e|--3----- B|--3----- G|--4----- D|--5----- A|--5----- E|--2----- G/F#m Instrumental: e|-------------------------------------------- B|-------------------------------------------- G|--7-7-7-9-9-9-6-6-6-7-7-7-------6-6-6------- D|--------------------------9-9-9---------8--- A|-------------------------------------------- E|-------------------------------------------- Bm E A D G C# F# Second Verse: " Second instrumental e|-------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------- B|-------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------- G|--7-7-7-9-9-9-6-6-6-7-7-7-------6-6-6------|------------------------------------------------- D|--------------------------9-9-9---------8--|--9-9-9--10-10-10--8-8-8--9-9-9--6-6-6--9-9-9--7- A|-------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------- E|-------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------- Bm E A D G C# F# G C F# B E E7 A Third verse: " Final Chorus: D G G G/F# G A Bm Who is it like, doesn't it strike you as the very image of someone we know A G G/F# Em F#m G A Bm A G Isn't it so like certain people how could a - nybo- dy miss the obvious G/F# Em F#m G A Bm A G G/F# Em Em/F# G A D and the uncanny and the clear resemblance? Isn't it just like certain peo--ple I could name? e|-------------------------------------------- B|-------------------------------------------- G|--7-7-7-9-9-9-6-6-6-7-7-7-------6-6-6------- D|--------------------------9-9-9---------8--- A|-------------------------------------------- E|-------------------------------------------- Bm E A D G C# F#