Barenaked Ladies – I Know (Guitar)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Artist: Barenaked Ladies Song: I Know Composer: Ed Robertson Album: Born on a Pirate Ship (1996) AmMaj7: X02110 BmMaj7: X24332
G      Fmaj7 G
I know why I like you, 

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It's cause of your clothing

Fmaj7    G
And your haircut
G (mute) And 'cause you're racist
G      Fmaj7    G
I have a match, your face

Fmaj7         G
My asking you questions

Fmaj7     G
You can't answer

C
You wanna box me?

Am        AMaj7      Am7        Am6
Our world works in a weird way, I've heard

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Them say a man with a beard may frighten

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Children or dogs, but a mustache scares me more

A      Gmaj7   A
I know why you bite me

Gmaj7              A
It's cause of your instincts

Gmaj7    A
And your canines
A (mute) And 'cause I kicked you
A      G      A
I have a bone to pick

G                A
Please go on the paper

G               A
And fetch me my slippers
D5 (mute) And stop meowing
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Man's best friend wags his tail and bares his 

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Teeth at the man with the mail and though he's

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Frightened of thunder, he never goes to war

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Tell me what's the circumstance of circumsision

E7                                A7                E7
And what happens in my daughter's pants, is whose descision

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I've seen the facts, of inter-race relations

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Of see-through slacks, and cyber-masturbation

E7                                A7
If one hundred monkeys each could have their own show

E7
Perhaps one day a chimp might say
N.C "You have faith, you just need to use it sayeth the lord"
G      Fmaj7 G
I know why I like you, 

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It's cause of your sandals

Fmaj7    G
And your supper
G (mute) And 'cause you're JESUS
G      Fmaj7    G
I have a match; your dad

Fmaj7           G
My dad has your picture

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Right next to your mother's

C
And one of Charo

Am        AMaj7       Am7    Am6
They hold hands up in heaven and they

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Say their son's name is Kevin but I

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Read in a book somewhere that his name is

A                    G
Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack x2