Guitar Tab:My Brother The Ape

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My Brother The Ape
By: They Might Be Giants
Key: D Major
Year: 2009
Tabbed By: Yankamerica
D G D A
D G A

        D
Well, I got the invitation
That you sent to everyone
And I told you family picnics weren't exactly my idea of fun
       G
You replied that everyone but me said they were going to come
         D
Which is how you talked me into going to the reunion

A                                  G
When you said everyone, you really meant it

               D G D
My brother the ape
   A           D G A/D
My brother the ape

    D
I received the photos you sent
And I don't regret that I went
Or the sight of everybody stiffly posing under one tent
      G
But I don't feel I belong and I keep wanting to escape
      D
And I fail to see the likeness between me and my brother the ape

Em
They all kept saying (they all kept saying)
G/D
How much we look alike (how much we look alike)
C             Em/B          A6
I don't think that we look alike at all (I don't think that we look alike at all)

                    D                  G
But I'll admit that I look more like a chimp
       D                       G
Than I look like my cousin the shrimp
      D                G
Or my distant kin the lichens
       D           G
Or the snowy egret or the moss
      G
And I find it hard to recognize
     G#dim7
Some relatives of ours
         D/A
Like the rotifer, the sycamore
                A7
Iguanas and sea stars

               D G D
My brother the ape
   A           D G A/D
My brother the ape


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G
D


Em           G/D
They say you don't get (they say you don't get)
C              Em/B
To choose your family (to choose your family)
Am             Em/G
But there's no other one to choose (but there's no other one to choose)

          D
So that's why I'm writing this now
And you can tell my sister the cow
That I meant to thank her for the gorgonzola
                              G
And I'll allow that I've been acting like a stranger
But you guys are all so strange
         D
Though I think of what I'm like
And I can see we're all the same

A                                     G
So this time next year, we'll meet at my place

               D G D
My brother the ape
   A           D G A
My brother the ape

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