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Swatting Flies by Crash Test Dummies

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Key: D

Intro:

 D   | D/A | D   : 
 Bm7 | Am  | D/A : 

Verse 1:
D    D/A   D         D/B      D    D/A   D
Now that I've used up all my ideas
F     D  Am        D           G
Here in my little house by the sea
  Em            D/F#    A        D            Bm7
I search for a usable memory but none comes to me

Verse 2:
D    D/A   D         D/B      D    D/A   D
In grade one, my teacher could do embalming
F     D  Am        D           G
She'd stuff the bodies of dead little birds
  Em            D/F#    A        D            Bm7
She told us if ever we found one, just to bring it to her

Chorus:
F                              Am
And in the science room was an iguana
F                 E
It lay very still in its cage
Bm               G        C
And we'd feed him living flies

Verse 3:
D    D/A   D         D/B      D    D/A   D
Then she'd read the old testament to us
F     D  Am        D           G
But first she'd remind us the stories were true
  Em            D/F#    A        D            Bm7
And we'd hear of locusts and plagues and the tortures they knew

Chorus:
F                              Am
And in the science room was an iguana
F                  E
I remember it now in my house
Bm               G        C
by the seaside Swatting flies