From: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 19:42:03 -0400
Subject: why_must_i_be_sad?.crd
Why Must I Be Sad?
by They Might Be Giants (from the CD «John Henry»)
transcribed by Gary Snegaroff ([email protected])
(Intro riff then) D Em F C D Em F C
D Dmaj7 Gm Gm7
No more Mister Nice Guy
C C7 F A
I love the dead
D Dmaj7 Gm Gm7
I’ve been thinking about it
C C7 F A
Now I understand what he said
CHORUS:
D Em F C
Ask me now I
D Em F C D
understand the words that Alice said
Em F C
I kick the rocks beneath me
D Em 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 F#m
The rows of dandelions growing all around me
G A D Em F C D Em F C
Why must I be sad?
D Dmaj7 Gm Gm7
No one knows these things but me and him
C C7 F A
so I’m writing everything down in a spiral notebook
D Dmaj7 Gm Gm7
in the hopes that one day other people
C C7 F A
will feel as low as this
(repeat Chorus)
Dm Dm/Bd Dm/B Dm/C
No more Mister Nice Guy
Bdm Bdm7 Fm Dd
I love the dead
Ddim7 Edim7
I’ve been thinking about it
Ddim7 F+ A
Now I understand what he said
(repeat Chorus, except last line is…)
G A Em F#m
Why must I be sad?
(repeat until)
G A D Em F C D Em F C D
Why must I be sad?
