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: Dsus - G C Em A7 G C A7 Dsus Chorus: G C Em A7 Don't, don't, don't let's start This is the worst part Em Em(maj7) Em7 Em6 A7 Dsus 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 Dsus I don't get around how you get around Verse 1: Solo tabs (Alternately, play the chords given below the tabs in the place of the high solo, or in place of both solos.) (play two more repetitions of the above lines as verse continues): G C F9 D When you are alone, you are the cat, you are the phone G C F9 D You are an animal G C F9 D The words I'm singing now mean nothing more than "meow" G C F9 D To an animal G C F9 D7sus4 Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account G C F9 Dsus Don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound Em Fadd9 D, world destruction Over an overture G C7 C7 N, do I need apostrophe T, need this torture? REPEAT CHORUS Verse 2: 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 D, world destruction Over an overture N, do I need apostrophe T, need this torture? REPEAT 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) Em7 Em6 Cmaj7 D G e--10----------8---|---------------|---------------|---------------| B--10----------8---|---------------|---------------|---------------| G--|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| D--|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| A--|---------------|---------------|-----------0---|---------------| E--|---------------|-----------0---1-------3-------|---3-----------| G C Csus D e--10----------8---|---------------|---------------|---------------| B--10----------8---|---------------|---------------|---------------| G--|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| D--|---------------|---------------|-----------0---|---------------| A--|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| E--|---------------|-----------0---1-------3-------|---------------| G C Csus D