Dont Lets Start

Don't Let's Start by They Might Be Giants

[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.

Em+maj7 can be played 021000

Em+dom7 " 020000

Em+6 " 042000

or you can just play the second line of the chorus as: Em G A D

and the coda as: Em G D G.]

Don't don't don't let's start - this is the worst part

Em / Em+maj7 G A D

could believe for all the world that you're my precious little girl but

don't don't don't let's start - I've got a weak heart

and I don't get around how you get around

1.

|: G C F D :|

When you are alone you are the cat, you are the phone, you are an animal

the words I'm singing now mean nothing more than meow to an animal

wake up - smell the cat food in your bank account

don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound

D world destruction - O ver and overture

G C / C7

N do I need - apostrophe-T need this torture

(Chorus)

2.

No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful

everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful

they want what they're not and I wish they would stop saying

deputy dog dog a ding dang depa depa

deputy dog dog a ding dang depa depa

D world destruction - O ver and overture

N do I need - apostrophe-T need this torture

(Chorus)

|: D - - - :|

I don't want to live in this world any more

I don't want to live in this world

(Chorus)

Coda: Em/Em+maj7 Em+dom7/Em+6 D G

-E.M.