God Shuffled His Feet Album

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God Shuffled His Feet Album

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Contents:

God Shuffled His Feet

Afternoons and Coffespoons

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

In the Days of the Caveman

Swimming In Your Ocean

Here I Stand Before Me

I Think I'll Disappear Now

How Does a Duck Know

When I Go Out With Artists

The Psychic

Two Knights and Maidens

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God Shuffled His Feet

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After seven days, he was

The people sipped their wine, and what with

So he said once there was a boy, who

The people sat wait ing out on their

Quite tired, so God said

God there, they asked him ques tions, like

woke up with blue hair. To

blankets in the gar den. But

Let there be a day just for

Do you have to eat, or get your

him it was a joy, until he

God said noth ing. So someone

Picnics, with wine and bread

hair cut in hea ven

ran out into the warm air

asked him, beg your par don

Gathered up some people he had made

And if your eye got poked out in this life,

He thought of how his friends would come to see

I'm not quite clear a bout what you just spoke

Created blankets and laid back in the shade

would it be waiting up in heaven with your wife

and would they laugh or had he got some strange dis ease

Was that a parable or a very subtle joke

[Chorus]

God shuffled his feet and glanced a round at them

The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him

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Afternoons and Coffespoons

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[Intro - 4/4 time, all chords 1/2 measure each]

[Verses]

What is it that makes me just a little bit queasy

Times when the day is like a play by Sartre

Maybe if I could do a play by playback

There's a breeze that makes my breathing not so easy

When it seems a book burning's in perfect order

I could change the test results that I will get back

I've had my lungs checked out with X rays

I gave the doctor my de scription

I've watched the summer evenings pass by

I've smelled the hospital hallways

I've tried to stick to my presciptions

I've heard the rattle in my bronchi

[Chorus]

Someday I'll have

a disappearing hair line

Someday I'll wear

pajamas in the day time

[Extended Chorus (play 2nd and 3d time through)]

Oh .... oh .... oh

After noons will be

measured out, measured out, and

measured with

coffe spoons, and T.S. Eliot

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Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

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[Intro - 4/4 time, all chords 1/2 measure each]

[Verses]

Once there was this kid who

Once there was this girl who

Once there was this boy whose

got into an accident and couldn't come to school, but

wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room. And

parents made him come directly home right after school. And

when he finally came back

when they finally made her

when they went to their church

his hair had turned from black into bright white. He

they saw birthmarks all over her body. She

they shook and lurched all over the church floor. He

said that it was from when the cars had smashed

couldn't quite ex plain it. They'd always just

couldn't quite ex plain it. They'd always just

so hard. [To Chorus]

been there. [To Chorus, then to Bridge]

gone there. [To Chorus, then fade]

[Chorus]

Mmm mmm mmm mmm. Mmm mmm mmm mmm.

Mmm mmm mmm mmm. Mmm mmm mmm mmm.

[Bridge]

But both girl and boy were glad

that one kid had it worse than that 'Cause ...

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In the Days of the Caveman

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[Intro]

When you go on camping trips,

You're stuck right out in nature.

Foraging the forests like a primate.

Using sharpened tools instead of hot plates

[Verses]

Your thumb and forefinger

Sometimes when I lie awake,

when I finally get to sleep,

supposed to show you're not a wild beast.

I hear the rainfall on my tent fly.

I dream in Techni color.

You can hear their noises at night time

I think of all the insects that are sleeping,

I see creatures come back from the Ice Age

They don't have to keep a certain bed time.

and wonder if the animals are dreaming.

alive and being fed inside a zoo cage.

[Chorus]

See in the shapes of my body

leftover parts from the apes and monkeys

[Extended Chorus (play 2nd and 3d time through)]

In the days of the caveman,

and mammoths, and glaciers.

Bugs and trees were your food then

no pajamas, or doctors.

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Swimming in Your Ocean

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[Intro - 4/4 time, 1 measure per chord]

[Verses]

When I'm sampling from your bosom

When I kneel before your bounty

When you let me taste your fingers

sometimes I suffer from distractions like

sometimes I wonder if there could be really

I take them like fruit and as I linger, I

Why does God cause things like torna does and train wrecks.

U F O's that come from other planets.

wonder if my seed will find pur chase in your soil.

[Chorus]

When I'm swimming in, when I'm swimming in your ocean,

floating aloft on creams and scented lotion, well

I can get pretty sidetracked. I hope you understand.

[Postchorus Instrumental]

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Here I Stand Before Me

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[Intro (simple, ain't it?)]

[Verses]

My doctor told me that it was time for me to have my X ray.

Well, take my fingers, what to fingers really mean to me?

[Instrumental 3d verse]

Of course, I had many night mares about the fatal day.

Oh, you can easily look them up in the dictionary.

[Instrumental 3d verse]

The room was dark and my skeleton was floating on the wall.

They call them digits or techically they're known as the pha langes.

[Instrumental 3d verse]

My voice trembles down in side me.

My joints con nected up in side me,

My, my the future lay be fore me.

I'm trapped way down in my body.

way down deep inside my body.

Hey hey, deep inside my body.

[Chorus]

I, I, I, oh here I stand be fore me, but

something's out of place here.

My mind's eye is missing from my body.

Well, I know it's there, but I can't see where.

[First time through, play G and goto second verse. Second time through,

play Bm -> B and then this bridge]

My bones shine brightly, a map of my whole body.

My vital organs just churn away in side me. Some-

day they're going to stop this motion, and I'll be left with

[Then play B, D and goto the instrumental third verse.]

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I Think I'll Disappear Now

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[Intro - 4/4 time, 4 distinct beats per chord except for [Csus4-C]

and [Dm-C], which are each 4 beats total]

Bb C F Csus4 Bb [Csus4-C] F Bb F [Dm-C]

[Vocal Intro]

Running into you like this without a warning

is like catching a sniff of te quila in the morning.

But I'll try, I'll try to keep my food down.

That's quite an aftertaste that you've left now that

you're not a round.

[Verses]

You can just pretend we're not in the same room.

I'll buy a fast car and drive it fast from here.

Well, you can bet that I'll forget how it was then,

Well alright I'll just mosey to the bathroom.

There's a beach I haven't seen since last year.

all the drives to your farm for the weekend.

You flew by like a summer vacation

It's far, but I like night drives

But I've seen the swimsuit magazines

and you left me with TV movies and a messy kitchen

it just makes it nicer when I do ar rive.

and I've smelled te quila first thing in the morning.

[Chorus]

I think I'll disap pear now, slip out sideways.

Just for a while, but un til then, I'll stay in and sleep late. Ex -

cuse me.

[Extended Chorus (play 2nd and 3d times through)]

Aren't you going to miss me?

Aren't you going to even say one thing to me anymore.

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How Does a Duck Know

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How does a duck know

what direction south is?

And how to tell his wife from all the other ducks?

You can cut a chicken's head off

but it will keep on running and twitching.

When everything seems planned out

when everything seems nicely planned out

well the human race will come and smack your face

How come all my body parts

so nicely fit to gether?

All my organs doing their jobs, no help from me.

A person pulls a spider's leg out

to watch it keep on moving and twitching.

When everything seems planned out

when everything seems nicely planned out

well the human race will come and smack your face

Satan

lives here

on grain and earth, rain and air.

You can put me in and iron lung

and I will keep on breathing and twitching.

When everything seems planned out

when everything seems nicely planned out

well the human race will come and smack your face

You might be dead, but you keep your head.

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When I Go Out With Artists

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[Intro - 4/4 time, each chord is 1/2 measure]

[Verses]

When I go out with artists,

If I were David Byrne,

they talk about the language and the

I'd go to galleries and

cubists and the dadaists and I

not be too con cerned. Well, I would

try to catch their meanings

have a cup of coffee

and keep up with all of their mar tinis.

and I'd find my sur roundings quite a musing. And

I don't know which should be my favorite paintings.

people would ask me which were my favorite paintings.

[Chorus - Second time through, goto Bridge]

If I could see, if I could see, if I could

see all the symbols, unlock what they mean,

Maybe I could, maybe I could, maybe I

could meet the artists and get to know them

personal ly --

[Bridge - Play after second Chorus, and then goto Instrumental Bridge]

What if the artists ran the TV?

All the ads would be for fine scotch or whiskey

Glenfiddich, Glenlivet,

the whole single malt family --

[Instrumental Bridge - 4/4 time, each chord equals 1/2 measure]

D D D D A A (NC) (NC)

[Close - Play after Instrumental Bridge]

The artists of the future

will make up new things and

different nomen clatures. And they'll

stand amongst their pictures

and they'll sing and

laugh and quote from scriptures. And

when they go home,

They'll dream of brilliant paintings.

If I could see, if I could see, if I could

see all the symbols, unlock what they mean,

maybe I could, maybe I could, maybe I

could meet the artists and get to know them personally.

If I could see, if I could see, if I could

see all the symbols, unlock what they mean,

maybe I could, maybe I could, maybe I

could meet the artists and

get to know them personal ly --

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The Psychic

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[Intro - 4/4 time, all chords represent 1/2 measure]

 

[Verses]

She knows the fu ture

She said her vis ions

What does she think when

like the palm of your hand.

were a bane in her life.

she foretells a dis ease?

She knows your past like the

She could not con trol them, they

Would she keep it a se cret if

lay of the land. The

kept her up nights. I

death stood be fore me

first time she met me

know what you're thinking

What could some cards hold

she saw right through me, some

haven't been drinking.

Where is her foothold?

cards and a cane in her hand. [To Chorus]

She knew things that cut like a knife. [To Bridge]

Can I escape what she sees? [To Ending]

[Chorus]

And she said,

All the years that have come to pass and

all the years that shall be

I see here right be fore me.

[Bridge]

 

Will there be earthquakes and

great tidal waves?

Can she see back to the dinosaur days? How

can she fore see just by squinting at me? And

can she see me naked in her mind's eye

[Ending]

And she said,

All the years that have come to pass and

all the years that shall be

I see here right be fore me.

I see here before me.

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Two Knights and Maidens

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[Editor's note -- this song has some screwy chords ... good luck playing

it -- I figured it out by myself ... uh yeah, that's the ticket! :) ]

[Chord definitions:

Aadd2 x 0 2 4 2 0

Badd4 x 2 4 4 4 0

F#m(add4) x 4 4 2 0 0

C#m x 4 6 6 5 4

Esus4 0 2 2 2 0 0

F#m7 x 4 2 2 2 2

[Intro - 6/8 time, each chord is 1 measure]

[Vocal Intro - 6/8 time]

F#m7(add4) D E Aadd2 Em

Once there were two knights and maidens.

They'd walk to gether

out in the gar dens

in all kinds of weather.

[Verses - 6/8 time]

The knights always pestered the maidens

The knights took the potions gladly

The knights only laughed at the tigers

to love them to gether

They laughed at their visions

they thought they were visions

out in the gar dens and they could watch each other

but outside the gar den tigers smelled them together.

Out in the gar den the maidens watched them together.

watch each other [To Chorus]

smelled them together. [To Chorus]

watched them together. [To Ending]

[Chorus]

The maid ens had other plans for the two knights

they'd give them potions

and make them see dreams and lights.

[Ending]

Ah ---

but for the two knights.

Ah but for maidens who gave to them

dreams and lights.

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Joshua Bardwell | "May be going to hell in a bucket, baby

Internet: gt6234b@prism.gatech.edu | But at least I'm enjoying the ride!"

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