Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head chords by They Might Be Giants

Intro:
    E                                   A
As your body floats down Third Street With the burn-smell factory closing up
     E           B/D#       A          C#m
Yes it's sad to say you will romanticize All the things you've known before
    A       C#m     A       F#m
It was not not not so great It was not not not so great
      E                                B
And as you take a bath in that beaten path There's a pounding at the door

Verse:
E          C#m          E/B        A
 Well It's a mighty zombie talking of some love and posterity
       E          B/D#        A         C#m
He says "The good old days never say good-bye If you keep this in your mind:
       A      C#m        A         F#m
You need some lo-lo-loving arms You need some lo-lo-loving arms"
E                  A       F#m   B
And as you fall from grace the only words you say are

Chorus:
E      E/G#      E/C#  E/B
  Put your hand inside the puppet head
     E/G#      E/A    E/F#  E/B
Put your hand inside the puppet head
     D          F#m
Put your hand inside Put your hand inside
     E        Emaj7 C#m  A
Put your hand inside the puppet head

Verse:
E       C#m          E/B                A
Ads up in the subway are the work of someone Trying to please their boss
        E            B/D#           A          C#m
And though the guy's a pig we all know what he wants Is just to please somebody else
    A        C#m     A         F#m
If the pu-pu-puppet head  Was only bu-bu-busted in
       E           A          F#m        B
It would be a better thing for everyone involved And we wouldn't have to cry

Chorus:
E      E/G#      E/C#  E/B
  Put your hand inside the puppet head
     E/G#      E/A    E/F#  E/B
Put your hand inside the puppet head
     D          F#m
Put your hand inside Put your hand inside
     E        Emaj7 C#m  A
Put your hand inside the puppet head

Bridge:
Memo to myself: do the dumb things I gotta do
Touch the puppet head

B  B  C B
Quit my

Verse:
E        C#m          E/B            A
job down at the carwash Didn't have to write no-one a good-bye note
        E
That said, "The check's in the mail, and
   B/D#          A           C#m
I'll see you in church, and don't you ever change"
    A        C#m      A        F#m
If the pu-pu-puppet head   Was only bu-bu-busted in
   E    A   F#m B
I'll see you after school

Chorus:
E      E/G#      E/C#  E/B
  Put your hand inside the puppet head
     E/G#      E/A    E/F#  E/B
Put your hand inside the puppet head
     D          F#m
Put your hand inside Put your hand inside
     E        Emaj7 C#m  A
Put your hand inside the puppet head

E      E/G#      E/C#  E/B
  Put your hand inside the puppet head
     E/G#      E/A    E/F#  E/B
Put your hand inside the puppet head
     D          F#m
Put your hand inside Put your hand inside
     E  Emaj7   C#m A E