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My Man
By: They Might Be Giants
Key: C Major
Year: 2001
Transcribed by Anonymous/Revised by Tisher


Intro:
||: C  F   Dm  G Gsus4 G :||

C  F   Dm           G    
My man muscles from hand to  
Cadd9            F      Dm        G
Foot comepletely coated in uninterupted 
C       F   Dm          G           
skin My man signals command the 
C             F      Dm               G
Leg to follow orders coming down from headquarters
Eb  Ab   Fm7       Bb       
Why then am I in bed? 
  C        F             Dm          G
I guess my man's falling out with my head


C                 G/B 	
May I direct your attention to the following 
Dm                      F
simile? you're like the coasts of an ocean
G                     F            
buried beneath is the submarine cable 
F                       G
connecting the opposite shore that's surrounding


Eb Ab  Fm         Bb Bsus4 Bb
My man how can he stand?  
C                     F     Dm                  G
Your fingers would encircle clear around the ankle
C  F   Dm           G
My man won't walk again
   C               F          Dm            G
In conflict with express instructions given by the brain
Eb  Ab        Fm         Bb       
Why can't the message be sent
  C        F     Dm                  G
I guess my man's falling out with my head

                          
										
When something happens to drag on the floor of the 
ocean for instance an anchor or mooring         
The cable can be disrupted or even be severed
severed which halts the transmission across it


Solo: Eb Bb/D Ab/C Fm

Ab             Bb
There is no way to repair the break

C   F   Dm   G
C   F   Dm   G


Eb     Ab      Fm   Bb   
My man muscles from hand to  
C                F      Dm        G
Foot comepletely coated in uninterupted 
C       F   Dm          G           
skin My man signals command the 
C             F      Dm               G
Leg to follow orders coming down from headquarters
Cadd9  F   Dm        G       
My man how can he stand?


Eb     Ab      Fm   Bb   
My man muscles from hand to  
C                F      Dm        G
Foot comepletely coated in uninterupted skin
C  F   Dm         G           
My man won't walk again


Outro:
|:C        F         Dm             G:|