They Might Be Giants – Purple Toupee (Guitar)

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Artist: They Might Be Giants Song: Purple Toupee Album: Lincoln [Intro] A D E C# F#m B (W/ Talk Box) E A B E [Verse 1]
G                   C         G
I remember the year I went to camp

C                G          A              D
Heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks

G                                 C          G
Somebody put their fingers in the president's ears

       C               G               D                  G
And it wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's Wax
[Pre-Chorus 1]
D              G
I remember the book depository

           D                     G
Where they crowned the king of Cuba

G                                 C                      G
That's all I can think of but I'm sure there's something else

C          G             D              E
Way down inside me I can feel it coming back
[Chorus]
A         D        E        C#       F#m    B
Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down

E          A        B      E 
(purple toupee when summer brings you down)

A         D       E    C#        F#m       B
purple toupee and gold lame will turn your brain around

E          A       B    E
(purple toupee and gold lame)
[Verse 2]
G                   C               G
Chinese people were fighting in the park

C                     G            A           D
We tried to help them fight no one appreciated that

G                          C                G
Martin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottoms

C         G               D                G
Ten years later they were sharing the same cell
[Pre-Chorus 2]
D                       G
I shouted out "Free the Expo '67"

D                                    G
Til they stepped on my hair and they told me I was fat

G                      C             G
Now I'm very big I'm a big important man

C                         G            D             E
And the only thing that's different is underneath my hat
[Chorus]
A         D        E        C#       F#m    B
Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down

E          A        B      E 
(purple toupee when summer brings you down)

A         D       E    C#        F#        B
purple toupee and gold lame will turn your brain around

E          A       B    E
(purple toupee and gold lame)
[Bridge]
F#m       B      E       C#
Purple toupee is here to stay

F#m       B        E
after the hair has gone away

    A                 B                 E
the purple brigade is marching from the grave
[Outro] Bb Bb F F Eb
Bb
La la la la la la la

F
La la la la la la la

Eb
La la la

Bb
We're on some kind of mission

F
we have an obligation

Eb
we have to wear toupees
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