Guitar Tab:I Made A Mess
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| I Made A Mess |
| By: They Might Be Giants |
| Key: A minor |
| Year: 2015 |
This song is based on a repeating 9 bar figure:
Am Dm Bdim E C F Dm G E
Am Dm Bdim
I just made a mess
E C
I don't know how
F Dm
I did but now
G E
The whole place is
Am
A wreck
Dm Bdim
I made a mess
E C
And now I guess
F Dm
That somehow I
G E
Have got to clean
Am
It up
Am Dm Bdim E
It's a catastrophe From ceiling to
C F Dm G
floor / From wall to the other wall And nothing was
E Am Dm Bdim
spared / What wasn't destroyed was spilled And what wasn't
E C F Dm
spilled / Was melted or scribbled on From ceiling to
G E Am
Floor / From wall to the other wall
(Ohhh)
I made a mess (Ohhh)
I don't know how (Ohhh)
But now I have (Ohhh)
A big mess on my hands (Ohhh)
I'll need a ton (I'll need a ton)
Of mops and glue (Of mops and glue)
And soap and towels (And soap and towels)
And paint and (And paint and)
Power tools (Power tools)
Trying to clean it up
Is making it worse
Whatever I try to fix
Gets even more wrecked
No matter how much I wash
It looks even messier than
It did before
I'm making it worse
By trying to clean it up
I made a mess (I made a mess)
And now I guess (And now I guess)
That somehow I (That somehow I)
Have got to clean (Have got to clean)
It up (It up)
Am Dm Bdim
Ba ba ba baa baa baa
E
Ba ba ba ba
C F Dm
Ba ba ba ba ba baa baa baa
G
Ba ba ba ba
E
Ba ba ba ba ba
Am
Baaaa
contrapuntal Flans guitar halfway through choruses:
D|---------0-2-|-3-----2-----|-0-----------|-----2-0-----|
A|-------3-----|-------------|-------------|---------3-2-|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
G|-----------0-|-2-----0-----|-------------|-----0-------|
D|-----0-2-3---|-------------|-3-----------|-------3-2-0-|
A|-3-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
G|-------1-2-4-|-2-----------||
D|-2---4-------|-------------||
A|-------------|-------------||
E|-------------|-------------||
guitar coda (swung):
D|---------0-2-|-3-----2-----|-0-----------|-----2-0-----|
A|-------3-----|-------------|-------------|---------3-2-|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
G|-----------0-|-2-----0-----|-------------|-----0-------|
D|-----0-2-3---|-------------|-3-----------|-------3-2-0-|
A|-3-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
B|-------------|-1-----0-----|-------------|-------------|
G|-------1-2-4-|-------------|-2-----------|-----4-2-1---|
D|-2---4-------|-------------|-------------|-----------4-|
A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
e|-------------|-0-----------|-------------|-------------|
B|---------1-3-|-------3-----|-1-----------|-----3-1-0---|
G|-1---2-4-----|-------------|-------------|-----------2-|
D|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
e|---------0-1-|-0-----------|-------------||
B|-0---1-3-----|-------3-----|-1-----------||
G|-------------|-------------|-------------||
D|-------------|-------------|-------------||
A|-------------|-------------|-------------||
E|-------------|-------------|-------------||
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