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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