The Edison Museum chords by They Might Be Giants

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Chorus 1:
  B7    C#m   G#m     D#m
The Edison Museum, not open to the public
  B7       C#m  G#m      D#m
Its haunted towers rise into the clouds above it
G#m         C#m
Folks drive in from out of town
  D#m             G#m
To gaze in amazement when they see it

Verse 1:
B         E   B        E
Just outside the gate I look into the courtyard
B   E         B   E
Underneath the gathering thunderstorm
B        E    B        E
Through the iron bars, I see the Black Mariah
 B    E       D#m G#m
Revolving slowly on its platform
F#       B    C#m  D#m  G#m
In the topmost tower, a light burns dim
 F#   B    C#m D#m   G#m
A coiling filament glowing within

Chorus 2:
  B7    C#m  G#m       D#m
The Edison Museum, once a bustling factory
 B7      C#m       G#m       D#m
Today is but a darkened, cobweb covered hive of industry
  G#m       C#m
The tallest, widest and most famous
D#m          G#m
Haunted mansion in New Jersey

Verse 2:
B        E     B        E
Behind a wooden door, the voice of Thomas Alva
B     E    B  E
Recites a poem on a phonograph
B          E      B       E
Ghosts float up the stair, like silent moving pictures
  B   E        D#m   G#m
The loyal phantoms of his in-house staff
 F#        B     C#m D#m  G#m
A wondrous place it is, there can be no doubt
  F#        B    C#m  D#m    G#m
But no one ever goes in, and no one ever goes out

Chorus 3:
  B7         C#m     G#m       D#m
So when your children quarrel and nothing seems to quell them
B7          C#m       G#m   D#m
Tell them that you'll take them to the Edison Museum
  G#m     C#m
The largest independently owned
  D#m      G#m
And operated mausoleum