Artist: David Byrne
Song: Burning down the house
Tabbed by: DJ
17th Mar 2014

This is based on a live performance with St.Vincent,
David sings it a tone lower than his original Talking Heads versions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GOhipwlWRM

CAPO: 3rd fret (Sounds in the key of F)
D   =  xx0232
C   =  332010
E7  =  022130
(F) =  133211

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(Intro riff four times:)

e|----------------------|----------------------|
B|----------------------|----------------------|
G|----------------------|----------------------|
D|----------------------|----------------------|
A|--0-0--3-3--5-5--0-0--|--0-0--3-3--5-5--0-0--|
E|----------------------|----------------------|

e|----------------------|----------------------|
B|----------------------|----------------------|
G|----------------------|----------------------|
D|----------------------|------------5-3-------|
A|--0-0--3-3--5-5--0-0--|--0-0--3-3-------5-3--|
E|----------------------|----------------------|


          D             D  C
Ah------,    watch out,        you might get what you're after,
D               D  C
    Cool babies,      strange, but not a stranger,
D       D   C                    D     E7              C
    I'm an... or - din - a - ry guy, burning down the house!
D               D  C
    Hold tight,        wait 'til the party's over,
D               D  C
    Hold tight,        we're in for nasty weather,
D          D   C              D     E7               C
    There has ...got to be a way, burning down the house!


  D                                  C
Here's your ticket, pack your bags, time for jumping overboard,
(F)  D                      C
         Transportation is here,
(F)  D                                   C
         Close enough, but not too far, baby, you know where you are,
(F)  D                       C     (F)
         Fighting fire with fire!  Huh!


D             D  C
    All wet,         hey, you might need a raincoat,
D                 D  C
    Shake - down,       dreams walking in broad daylight,
D                 D   C                 D      E7               C
    Three hundred... six-ty five de - grees, burning down the house!


     D                            C
No visible means of support, and you have not seen nothing yet,
(F)  D                             C
         Everything's stuck to - gether,
(F)  D                                    C
     I don't know what you expect star - ing into that TV set,
(F)  D                        C
          Fighting fire with fire!   Well, go ahead!


   D        D     C              D        D     C
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |

   D        D     C              D      E7              C
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |      Burning down the house!


D             D   C
   My house,         it's out of the ordinary,
D                D   C
   That's right,        don't want to hurt nobody,
  D               D    C                  D      E7              C
Some things sure can...  sweep me off my feet, burning down the house!


    D                                  C
* Here's your ticket, pack your bags, time for jumping overboard,
(F)  D                      C
         Transportation is here,
(F)  D                                   C
         Close enough, but not too far, baby, you know where you are,
(F)  D                       C     (F)
         Fighting fire with fire!  Huh!


   D        D     C              D        D     C
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |

   D        D     C              D     E7       C
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |


     D        D     C       (F)    D        D     C       (F)
||:  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |

   D        D     C       (F)    D      E7              C
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |      Burning down the house! :||(Three times)


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* This is the verse that David probably meant to sing,
instead of repeating a previous verse...

D                                  C
It was once upon a place, some - times I listen to myself,
(F)  D                         C
         Gonna come in first place,
(F)  D                           C
   People on their way to work, baby, what did you expect?
(F)  D                      C
         Gonna burst into flame!   Go ahead!