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- I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die by They Might Be Giants
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- [Convention: each chord is two beats/half a measure. A dash indicates that
- the chord is held for another two beats; two chords with a slash between
- them are held for one beat/a quarter of a measure each.]
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- 1.
- D - A -
- Some days I feel like bein' wispy
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- G - D -
- and once in a while I feel like bein' dry
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- F# - G -
- but we're doomed and we're drowned by this feeling we surround
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- D A D -
- so I hope that I get old before I die
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- Chorus:
- A - - -
- oh
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- D - G -
- It's a long long rope they use to hang you soon I hope
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- A - D -
- and I wonder why this hasn't happened, why why why
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- D - G Gm
- and I think about the dirt that I'll be wearing for a shirt
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- D A D -
- and I hope that I get old before I die
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- 2.
- Clear off the kitchen table darling
- for on the kitchen table I must lie
- I'm tired for my wife just served the banquet of my life
- and I hope that I get old before I die
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- (Chorus)
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- -E.M.
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