They Might Be Giants – Cells (Guitar)

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Life is made out of cells

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Cells make copies of themselves (copies of themselves)

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And they make copies of themselves (and they make copies of themselves)

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And they make copies of themselves

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Different cells have different jobs

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But they all have one thing in common

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Inside of every cell is a twisted ladder

  F    C     F           C G Gadd2 G Gadd2
A recipe for life called DNA

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The directions are written out in the ladder's rungs

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Where they can be found

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In every cell of everything that lives

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A cell knows what it has to do

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To grow into some moss or a shrew (Algae or a kangaroo)

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Bug or a sunflower (Dwight David Eisenhower)

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A frog, a fish or you

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Cells are small, too small to see

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But together they can make a tree

  C       Dm     C/E      Dm      C     F C F
Within the cell there's a tiny spiral staircase

  F    C     F           C G Gadd2 G Gadd2
That tells the cell just how it's going to grow

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The instructions are spelled out in letters

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One on every step

   F     C/E     Dm   G7          C    F C F
In a language that the cell knows how to read

  C       Dm     C/E      Dm      C     F C F
Inside the cell is a tiny double helix

  F    C     F           C G Gadd2 G Gadd2
Another fancy word for DNA

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Which could also be a spiral staircase

      C                    F                   C
Which could also be a twisted ladder

      C                    F                   C
Which could also be a spring

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Which could also be a spiral staircase

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Which could also be a twisted ladder

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Or a crazy looking spring