Guitar Tab:My Brother The Ape

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My Brother The Ape

By: They Might Be Giants

Key: D Major

Year: 2009

Tabbed By: Yankamerica

D G D A D G A D Well, I got the invitation That you sent to everyone And I told you family picnics weren't exactly my idea of fun G You replied that everyone but me said they were going to come D Which is how you talked me into going to the reunion A G When you said everyone, you really meant it D G D My brother the ape A D G A/D My brother the ape D I received the photos you sent And I don't regret that I went Or the sight of everybody stiffly posing under one tent G But I don't feel I belong and I keep wanting to escape D And I fail to see the likeness between me and my brother the ape Em They all kept saying (they all kept saying) G/D How much we look alike (how much we look alike) C Em/B A6 I don't think that we look alike at all (I don't think that we look alike at all) D G But I'll admit that I look more like a chimp D G Than I look like my cousin the shrimp D G Or my distant kin the lichens D G Or the snowy egret or the moss G And I find it hard to recognize G#dim7 Some relatives of ours D/A Like the rotifer, the sycamore A7 Iguanas and sea stars D G D My brother the ape A D G A/D My brother the ape [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK] D G D Em G/D They say you don't get (they say you don't get) C Em/B To choose your family (to choose your family) Am Em/G But there's no other one to choose (but there's no other one to choose) D So that's why I'm writing this now And you can tell my sister the cow That I meant to thank her for the gorgonzola G And I'll allow that I've been acting like a stranger But you guys are all so strange D Though I think of what I'm like And I can see we're all the same A G So this time next year, we'll meet at my place D G D My brother the ape A D G A My brother the ape D