Guitar Tab:Don't Let's Start

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Don't Let's Start

By: They Might Be Giants

Key: G Major

Year: 1986

Key to chords: C x32010 Em 022000 or 022003 for pre-chorus Csus x33011 Em(maj7)021000 C7 x32310 Em7 020000 Cmaj7 x32000 Em6 042000 D xx0232 Fadd9 xx3213 Dsus xx0233 G 320003 D7sus4 xx0213 A7 x02020 Intro: Dsus4 - G C Em A7 G C A7 Dsus4 Chorus: G C Em A7 Don't, don't, don't let's start This is the worst part Em Em(maj7)/D# Em7/D A9/C# Dsus4 Could believe for all the world that you're my precious little girl, but G C Em A7 Don't, don't, don't let's start I've got a weak heart, and G C A7 Dsus4 I don't get around how you get around Verse 1: e--10----------8---|---------------|---------------|---------------| B--10----------8---|---------------|---------------|---------------| G--|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| D--|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| A--|---------------|---------------|-----------0---|---------------| E--|---------------|-----------0---1-------3-------|---3-----------| G C/E Fadd9 D e--10----------8---|---------------|---------------| B--10----------8---|---------------|---------------| G--|---------------|---------------|---------------| D--|---------------|---------------|-----------0---| A--|---------------|---------------|---------------| E--|---------------|-----------0---1-------3-------| G C/E Fadd9 D G C/E Fadd9 D When you are alone, you are the cat, you are the phone G C/E Fadd9 D You are an animal G C/E Fadd9 D The words I'm singing now mean nothing more than "meow" G C/E Fadd9 D To an animal G C/E F D7sus4 Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account G C/E F Dsus Don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound Pre-chorus: Em Fadd9 D, world destruction Over an overture G C7 C7 N, do I need apostrophe T, need this torture? REPEAT CHORUS Verse 2 (same chords and riffs as the first): No one in the world ever gets what they want, And that is beautiful Everybody dies frustrated and sad, And that is beautiful They want what they're not, and I wish they would stop Saying Deputy Dawg dog a ding dang depadepa Deputy Dawg dog a ding dang depadepa REPEAT PRE-CHORUS AND CHORUS Bridge: Dsus - - - - - - I don't want to live in this world anymore - - - - - - - - I don't want to live in this woooorld REPEAT CHORUS Coda: Em Em(maj7)/D# Em7/D A9/C# D G