They Might Be Giants – My Brother The Ape (Guitar)

Key
-

Auto-scroll

Chords

[Intro] D G A7 N.C. [Verse 1]
        D
Well, I got the invitation
That you sent to everyone And I told you family picnics weren't exactly my idea of fun
       G
You replied that everyone but me said they were going to come

         D
Which is how you talked me into going to the reunion

A                                  G         N.C.
When you said everyone, you really meant it
[Chorus]
               D
My brother the ape

                A/D
My brother the ape
[Verse 2]
    D
I received the photos you sent
And I don't regret that I went Or the sight of everybody stiffly posing under one tent
      G
But I don't feel I belong and I keep wanting to escape

      D
And I fail to see the likeness between me and my brother the ape
[Hook]
Em
They all kept saying (they all kept saying)

G/D
How much we look alike (how much we look alike)

C             Em/B          A6
I don't think that we look alike at all (I don't think that we look alike at all)
[Bridge]
                    D                  G
But I'll admit that I look more like a chimp

       D                       G
Than I look like my cousin the shrimp

      D                G
Or my distant kin the lichens

       D           G
Or the snowy egret or the moss

      G
And I find it hard to recognize

     G#dim7
Some relatives of ours

         D/A
Like the rotifer, the sycamore

                A7
Iguanas and sea stars
[Chorus]
N.C.           D
My brother the ape

                 A/D
My brother the ape
[Instrumental Break] D G D [Hook]
Em           G/D
They say you don't get (they say you don't get)

C              Em/B
To choose your family (to choose your family)

Am             Em/G
But there's no other one to choose (but there's no other one to choose)
[Bridge]
          G
So that's why I'm writing this now
And you can tell my sister the cow That I meant to thank her for the gorgonzola And I'll allow that I've been acting like a stranger But you guys are all so strange
         D
Though I think of what I'm like
And I can see we're all the same
A                                     G          N.C.
So this time next year, we'll meet at my place
[Chorus]
               G
My brother the ape

               D7  G
My brother the ape