Guitar Tab:The Edison Museum

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The Edison Museum
By: They Might Be Giants
Key: A Flat Minor
Year: 1999
Tabbed By: No Mo
    B         C#m      G#m         D#
The Edison Museum, not open to the public
    B              C#m    G#m           D#
Its haunted towers rise into the clouds above it
G#m                 C#m
Folks drive in from out of town
   D#                          G#m
To gaze in amazement when they see it

B                 Em    B                Em
Just outside the gate I look into the courtyard
B      Em                B      Em
Underneath the gathering thunderstorm
B                Em      B                Em
Through the iron bars, I see the Black Mariah
  B       Em            D#  G#m
Revolving slowly on its platform
F#             B        C#m   D#    G#m
In the topmost tower, a light burns dim
  F#      B        C#m  D#     G#m
A coiling filament glowing within

    B        C#m   G#m             D#
The Edison Museum, once a bustling factory
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Today is but a darkened, cobweb covered hive of industry
    G#m             C#m
The tallest, widest and most famous
D#                     G#m
Haunted mansion in New Jersey

B               Em        B               Em
Behind a wooden door, the voice of Thomas Alva
B          Em       B    Em
Recites a poem on a phonograph
B                   Em          B             Em
Ghosts float up the stair, like silent moving pictures
    B     Em              D#       G#m
The loyal phantoms of his in-house staff
  F#                B         C#m D#    G#m
A wondrous place it is, there can be no doubt
    F#               B       C#m    D#        G#m
But no one ever goes in, and no one ever goes out

   B                  C#m         G#m              D#
So when your children quarrel and nothing seems to quell them
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Just tell them that you'll take them to the Edison Museum
    G#m         C#m
The largest independently owned
    D#            G#m
And operated mausoleum