Its Not My Birthday

"It's Not My Birthday" by They Might Be Giants

originally from the EP "They'll Need A Crane"

ALTERNATIVINATE TABULAMINATION by gt9947c@prism.gatech.edu

HEY ARCHIVIST! HEY ARCHIVIST! HEY ARCHIVIST! HEY ARCHIVIST!

This is basically a transposition (not to mention a direct

copy-and-paste job) of the earlier post by, uh... E.M. It's a

wonderful tab, and I'm grateful for it, but-- it wants you to play

just a D chord through most of the chorus. Nuhnh-unh. I won't do

it. This version of the chorus is better, though it does get a little

hairy (at least on my acoustic) towards the end.

You should also know that I don't know/especially care what key this

song is in on the recording, so if it doesn't match the cd, well,

don't panic.

1.

G C D -

Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid

G C D -

and my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent

when this grey world crumbles like a cake

I'll be hanging from the hope

C? A D -

that I'll never see that recipe again

2.

As I walk I think about a new way to walk

as I think I'm using up the time left to think

and this train keeps rolling off the track

trying to act like something else

trying to go where it's been uninvited

Chorus: (note: use barre chords, you dummy!)

It's not my birthdaaaay, it's not todaaaaaaaay!

it's not my birthday so why do you lunge out at me

when the word comes down "Never more will be around"

though I'll wish we were there, I was less than we could bear

Am C D -

and I'm not the only dust my mother raised

|: G - G7 -

So I'm rattling the bars around this drink tank discreetly

C - A D :|

I should pour through the keyhole or evaporate completely

but there'd be no percentage and there'd be no proof

and the sound upon the roof is only water

(Repeat verse 1)

(Chorus)

Coda:

C D G -

I am not the only dust my mother raised

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Greyden Hochstetler

gt9947c@prism.gatech.edu

I don't need talent! I've got distortion!