• Song:

    The Big Country

  • Artist:

    Talking Heads

  • Album:

    Popular Favorites 1976-...

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Tom: C

Intro: C D F  F G (rpt 3 more times) 

   C        D     F               F G 
I see the shapes, I remember from maps 
  C         D        F              F G 
I see the shoreline, I see the whitecaps 
  C          D       F                 F G 
A baseball diamond, nice weather down there 
   C        D      F                         F    G 
I see the schools, and the houses where the kids are 
  C         D  F                       F   G 
Places to park, by the factories and buildings 
 C               D   F                 F   G 
Restaurants and bars for later in the evening 
 Am                      G    F                       G 
Then we come to the farmlands and the undeveloped areas 
 Am               G      F                    G 
And I have learned how these things work together 
  Am               G F                        G 
I see the parkways that passes through them all 
 Am              G  F                        G 
And I have learned how to look at these things 

CHORUS 
           Bb          F                   Eb 
And I say, I wouldn't live there if you paid me 
Bb          F                Eb 
I wouldn't live there, ooh, no siree 
Bb          F                Eb 
I wouldn't do the things the way those people do 
Bb          F                 Eb 
I wouldn't live there if you paid me to 

I guess it's healthy, I guess the air is clean 

And I guess those people have fun with their neighbors and friends 

Look at that kitchen and all of that food 

Look at them eat, I guess it tastes real good 
 Am                              G  F                          F  G 
They're growin' in those farmlands, then they bring it to the stores 
 Am                            G  F                      F  G 
They put it in their car trunks, then they bring it back home 

CHORUS 

I'm tired of looking out the window of the airplane 

I'm tired of travelling, I want to be somewhere 

And it's not even worth talking about those people down there 
 Bb              F              Eb 
Do do da da da   Do do da da da Do do 

(keep on doing chorus with various noises) 

(eventually hold the 
Eb a while and end on Bb )
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