Bass Tab:Cage & Aquarium

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Cage & Aquarium
By: They Might Be Giants
Key: E Major
Year: 1988
Tabbed By: Jaydarb10
This is the saxophone part transcribed to bass. Play it in Drop D, slap the low D while popping the high D.

Intro
G |-----------------|-------------------|
D |---2---2---2---2-|---2---2---2---2---|
A |-----------------|-------------------|
D |-2---2---2---2---|-2---2---2---2---2-|

(Rest for 2 measures)

Main riff ("Somebody's reading your (...)," "They're digging through all (...)," "This is the spawning (...)", "Then you hear (..)")
G |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D |---2---2---2---2-|---0---0---0---0-|---0---0---0---0-|---2---2---2---2-|
A |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D |-2---2---2---2---|-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0---0---|-2---2---2---2---|

Prechorus ("You cover your windows (...)," "Even keeping the pets (...)")
G |-----------------|-----------------|
D |---5---5---5---5-|-----------------|
A |-----------------|-----------------|
D |-5---5---5---5---|-7---7---7---7---|

End of choruses:
Variant 1
G |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D |---2---2---2---2-|---0---0---0---0-|---0---0---0---0-|---7---7---7---7-|
A |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D |-2---2---2---2---|-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0---0---|-7---7---7---7---|

Variant 2
G |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D |---2---2---2---2-|---0---0---0---0-|---0---0---0---0-|---9---9---9---9-|
A |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D |-2---2---2---2---|-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0---0---|-9---9---9---9---|

Repeat the intro twice for the outro, keep the two measures of rests