Bass Tab:Purple Toupee

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Purple Toupee
By: They Might Be Giants
Key: G Major
Year: 1988
Intro (No bass on the first two quarter beats; play once) and refrains (play twice):

G|------------------------------|----------------------------|
D|------------------------------|----------------------------|
A|------------------------------|7-6--------6-4--7-6---------|
E|0-2-4-5--4-2--5-3--2-1--4-2---|-----2-0------------2-0-----|

"I remember the year..." / "Chinese people were fighting..."

G|------------------------------|----------------------------|
D|------------------------------|----------------------------|
A|------------------------------|----------------------------|
E|------------------------------|----------------------------|

"I remember the book depository..." / "I shouted out...":

G|------------------------------|----------------------------|
D|------------------------------|----------------------------|
A|------------------------------|----------------------------|
E|------------------------------|----------------------------|

"That's what I can think of..." / "Now I'm a big...":

G|------------------------------|----------------------------|
D|------------------------------|----------------------------|
A|------------------------------|----------------------------|
E|------------------------------|----------------------------|

Bridge:

We:

G|-------------------------------|--------------------|----------------------|
D|-------------------------------|3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3--|--1-1--1-1--1-1--1-1--|
A|1-1--1-1--1-1--1-1--1-1--------|--------------------|----------------------|
E|-------------------------------|--------------------|----------------------|

Outro:

G|0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 (sustain that last note for one bar!)-|
D|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|