Guitar Tab:Why Must I Be Sad?

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Why Must I Be Sad?
By: They Might Be Giants
Key: D Major
Year: 1994
Tabbed By: Tisher
(Intro riff then) D5 C/E F C D5 Em F C

D  Dmaj7/C#       Gm   Gm7/F
No more Mister Nice Guy

C C7/Bb       F    A
I love the dead

D        Dmaj7/C#     Gm   Gm7/F
I've been thinking about it

           C     C7/Bb      F    A
Now I understand what he said


CHORUS:

D5   C/D F   C
Ask me now I

D5    C/E        F          C     D
understand the words that Alice said

  C/D       F       C
I kick the rocks beneath me

D        C/E     F   C
I squint at the sun

D    G    F#m  Bm
Sad, sad, sad, sad

Em       G    A
Why must I be sad?

D           G    F#m   Bm      Em   D/F#
The rows of dandelions growing all around me

G        A    D C/E F C D C/E F C
Why must I be sad?


D                  Dmaj7/C#             Gm  Gm7/F
No one knows these things but me and him

       C                  C7/Bb               F        A
so I'm writing everything down in a spiral notebook

D      Dmaj7/C#           Gm        Gm7/F
in the hopes that some day other people

     C       C7/Bb     F    A
will feel as low as this

(repeat Chorus)


Dm  Bb         Ddim7   Fmadd9
No more Mister Nice Guy

Dbdim7 C+   Fm   Db7
I love the dead

Ddim      Fdim     Edim    Gdim 
I've been thinking about it

      Fdim     Abdim       F+   A
Now I understand what he said

(repeat Chorus, except last line is...)

Em      D/A  G     A
Why must I be sad?

(repeat until)

G        A    D   C/E F C D C/E F C D
(... Babies) Why must I be sad?