The Mesopotamians chords by They Might Be Giants

Chords with lyrics

Song The Mesopotamians
Album: The Else


Verse 1:
DmDm         G minorGm
We've been driving around
DmDm          G minorGm     Bb majorBb    C majorC
From one end of this town to the other and back
Bb majorBb      FF      Bb majorBb    FF  Bb majorBb
But no one's ever seen us (No one's ever seen us)
Bb majorBb      FF    Bb majorBb
Driving our Econoline van (And no one's ever heard of our band)
  C majorC              A augmentedA
And no one's ever heard of our band

Chorus:
        D MajorD D[C#C#] B minorBm
We're the Mesopota- mi - ans
 Bm[A augmentedA   G+G    Gsus4[F#F#] E minorEm     A augmentedA
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh

Bridge:
D MajorD     D[C#C#]       B minorBm Bm[A augmentedA]  G+G
Then they wouldn't understand a word we say,
G minorGm                  F# minorF#m
So we'll scratch it all down into the clay
BB                     E minorEm
Half believing there will sometime come a day someone gives a damn
A augmentedA
Maybe when the concrete has crumbled to sand

Chorus:
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh

Bridge:
The Mesopotam-ish sun is beating down
DmDm             G minorGm
And making cracks in the ground
Bb majorBb              C majorC
But there's nowhere else to stand
Bb majorBb    FF Bb majorBb  Bb majorBb       FF  Bb majorBb
In Mesopotamia, (No one's ever seen us)
   Bb majorBb        FF   Bb majorBb    C majorC
The kingdom where we secretly reign (And no one's ever heard of our band)
A augmentedA
The land where we invisibly rule

Chorus:
As the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh

Bridge:
D MajorD       B minorBm
This is my last stick of gum
       E minorEm           G+G
I'm going to cut it up so everybody else gets some
F# minorF#m             BB        C majorC         A augmentedA
Except for Ashurbanipal who says my haircut makes me look like aMohenjodaroan
A augmentedA
Hey, Ashurbanipal,

Chorus:
I'm a Mesopota-mi -an
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh

Bridge:
        G+G          E minorEm
"Hey, man, I thought that you were dead
   C majorC           A minorAm
I thought you crashed your car"
   E minorEm           A augmentedA          E minorEm      A augmentedA
"No, man, I've been right here this whole time playing bass guitar
For the Mesopotamians"

Chorus:
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans