Guitar Tab:Cowtown

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Cowtown
By: They Might Be Giants
Key: D Major
Year: 1988
Tabbed By: Josh Woodward
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 Intro:
 Not really any chords; but if you need something to 
 play there, you can alternate D and A chords.
 
 Chorus:
 
     D
 I'm going down to Cowtown
 
 
 The cow's a friend to me
 
 D                           G                   A
 Lives beneath the ocean and that's where I will be
 
             D
 Beneath the waves, the waves
 
     G            A      D
 And that's where I will be
 
     D             G     A         D
 I'm gonna see the cow beneath the sea
 
 
 Bridge:
 
 G-G-G-G-G-G Bb
    (Weeeeeeeeeee!)
 
 G-G-G-G-G-G F
    (Weeeeeeeeeee!)
 
 G - F - E - G-G - F - E
 
 G - F - E - G-G - F - E
 
 
 1.
     D
 The yellow Roosevelt Avenue leaf overturned
 
     D                 G        A
 The ardor of arboreality is an adventure 
 
         D
 We have spurned, we've spurned
 
   G            D
 A new leaf overturned
 
        G        A   D
 It's a new leaf overturned
 
 
 Chorus:
 
     D
 I'm going down to Cowtown
 
 
 The cow's a friend to me
 
 D                           G                   A
 Lives beneath the ocean and that's where I will be
 
             D
 Beneath the waves, the waves
 
     G            A      D
 And that's where I will be
 
     D             G     A         D
 I'm gonna see the cow beneath the sea
 
 
 Bridge:
 
 G-G-G-G-G-G Bb
    (Weeeeeeeeeee!)
 
 G-G-G-G-G-G F
    (Weeeeeeeeeee!)
 
 G - F - E - G-G - F - E
 
 G - F - E - G-G - F - E
 
 
 2.
 D
 We yearn to swim for home, but our only home is bone
 
     D
 How sleepless is the egg knowing 
 
 G                     A
 That which throws the stone
 
              D
 Foresees the bone, the bone
 
     G    A       D
 Our only home is bone
 
     G    A       D
 Our only home is bone
 
 
 Final Chorus:
 
     D
 I'm going down to Cowtown
 
 
 The cow's a friend to me
 
 D                           G                   A
 Lives beneath the ocean and that's where I will be
 
             D
 Beneath the waves, the waves
 
     G            A      D
 And that's where I will be
 
     D             G     A         D
 I'm gonna see the cow beneath the sea 
  
          D 
 Yes I'm going down to Cowtown
 
 
 The cow's a friend to me
 
 D                           G                   A
 Lives beneath the ocean and that's where I will be
 
             D
 Beneath the waves, the waves
 
     G                   D
 And that's where I will be
 
     D             G     A         D
 I'm gonna see the cow beneath the sea
 
         G
 Yes I'm gonna see (I'm gonna see)
 
     A
 The cow (the cow)
 
             D
 Beneath the sea 

 
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