Bass Tab:The Mesopotamians

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The Mesopotamians
By: They Might Be Giants
Key: D Major
Year: 2007
Tabbed By: jepflast

(swing beat)

[verse 1] -- no bass

We've been driving around from one end of this town to the
other and back, but

[prechorus 1]

No one's ever see us driving our Econoline van, and

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+-------------------------------------------------+
|-------------------------------5--3--------------|
|-1----1---1--1----1---1--1----1------3----3---3--|
+-------1-----------1-----------------------3-----+

No one's ever heard of our band.  We're the Mesopo-

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+-------------------------+
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
+-5--5--5--5--5-----------+

[chorus]

-tamians: Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

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+-------------------------------------------------+
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-5--5--4--4--2--2--------------------------------|
+-------------------5--5--3--3--2--2--0--2--5--5--+

and they wouldn't understand a word we say,
	so we'll scratch it all down into the

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+-------------------------------------------------+
|-------------------------2--2--1--1--0-----------|
|-5--5--4--4--2--2--4--4--------------------------|
+----------------------------------------3--3--5--+

clay, half-believing there will sometime come a day
	someone gives a damn.  Maybe when the con-

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+-------------------------------------------------+
|----------------------1--------------------------|
|-------------2--2--4-----3--3--3--3--0--0--2--4--|
+-2--2--2--2--------------------------------------+

-crete has crumbled to sand.  We're the Mesopo-

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+-------------------------+
|-------------------------|
|-0--0--0--0--0-----------|
+-------------------------+

-tamians: Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilga-

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+-------------------------------------------2--2-0-+
|------------------------/5--5--4--4--2--4-5-------|
|-5--5--4--4--2--2--0--0---------------------------|
+--------------------------------------------------+

-mesh.  The Mesopotamish

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+-2--2--2--2--2-----------+
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
+-------------------------+

[verse 2]

sun is beating down and making cracks in the ground, but there's

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+---------10--9------------------------------------------+
|-------12------10----12--10--8-----7--5--3-h5----3------|
|-----------------10-------------5-----------------5--3--|
+-10-----------------------------------------------------+

nowhere left to stand in

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+-------------------------+
|------/5--3--2-----------|
|-1----------------3---3--|
+-------------------3-----+

[prechorus 2]

Mesopotamia, the kingdom where we secretly reign, the

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+---------------------------------------------------+
|---------------------------------------------------|
|-1----1---1--1----1---1--1----1---1--3---3/15------|
+-------1-----------1-----------1---------------15--+

land where we invisibly rule as the Mesopo-

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+--------------------------+
|--------------------------|
|------------/12-----------|
+-5--5--5--5---------------+

[chorus 2]

-tamians: Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

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+--------------------------------------------------+
|--------------------------------------------------|
|-5--5--4--4--2--2---------------------------------|
+-------------------5--5--3--3--2--2--0--2-3-5--5--+

this is my last stick of gum.  I'm gonna cut it up so
	everybody else gets some

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+-------------------------------------------------+
|-------------------------2--2--1--1--0-----------|
|-5--5--4--4--2--2--4--4--------------------------|
+----------------------------------------3--3--5--+

except for Ashurbanipal who says my haircut makes
	me look like a Mohenjo-daroan
	
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+-------------------------------------------------+
|----------------------1--------------------------|
|-------------2--2--4--------3--3--3--0--0--2--4--|
+-2--2--4--5--------------3-----------------------+

hey Ashurbanipal, I'm a Mesopo-

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+--------------------------+
|--------------------------|
|-0--0--0--0-/12-----------|
+--------------------------+

-tamian.  Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilga-

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+-----------------------------------------------2------+
|-----------------------------5--5--4--4--2--4-5-------|
|-5-/17--16--4--2-/14--12--0-----------------------0---|
+------------------------------------------------------+

-mesh.  We're the Mesopo-

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+-2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--+
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
+-------------------------+

-tamians: Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and 

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+----------------------------------------------------------+
|---------------------------------------------------7--7---|
|-5-/17--16--4--2-/14--12--12--10--10--9--9--7--9-10-------|
+----------------------------------------------------------+

Gilgamesh.  Hey man I

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+-------------------------+
|-------------------------|
|-0--0--0--0--0-----------|
+-------------------------+

[bridge]

thought that you were dead.
	I thought you crashed your car

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+-------------------------5--5--4--4--2--2--0--0---+
|-5--5--4--4--2--2--0--0---------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
+--------------------------------------------------+

no man, I've been right here this whole time
	playing bass guitar

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+--------------------------------------------------+
|-2--2--0--0--------------2--2--6--6--7--7--7--7\--|
|-------------4--4--0--0---------------------------|
+--------------------------------------------------+

for the Mesopota- we're the Mesopo-

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+-------------------------+
|-------------------------|
|-0--0--0--0--0-----------|
+-------------------------+

[chorus 3]

-tamians: (backing vocal: Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani-

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+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|------------------------------------------------------7--7---|
|-17--17--16--16--14--14--12--12--10--10--9--9--7--9-10-------|
+-------------------------------------------------------------+

-pal) Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal and

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+--------------------------------------------------------+
|-----12--11--------9--7--7-----------------------7--7---|
|----------------------------10--10--9--9--7--9-10-------|
+-10----------9--7---------------------------------------+

Gilgamesh.  We're the Mesopo-

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+-------------------------+
|-7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--|
|-------------------------|
+-------------------------+

-tamians: Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal and

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+---------------------------------------------------+
|-------------------------------------2-0-----------|
|-5--5--4--4--2--2--0--0-----------------4-2-0--0---|
+-------------------------3--3--2--2----------------+

Gilgamesh

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+-------------------------+
|-------------------------|
|-5--5--4--4--5-----------|
+-------------------------+