TALKINGHEADS
The Big Country


Intro:

Guitar 1
play with a slide and let all the notes ring
|-------||----------------------------------------||
|-/7----||:------9-----9/12---12-12/14----14/19--:||
|-/7----||--------9-9--9/12---12-12/14----14/19---||
|-/7----||---------9---9/12---12-12/14----14/19---||
|-------||:--------------------------------------:||
|-------||----------------------------------------||
|Guitar 2
|  D (xx0232@1)           E (022100@1)     G (320003@1)         A (x02220@1)      D|--2----||-------0-------3----3-3-3-----------2---|| (xx0232@1)|--3----||:------0-------3----3-3-3-----------3--:||
|--2----||-------1-------0----0-0-0--2--------2---||
|--0----||-------2-------0----0-0-0--2--------0---||
|-------||:------2-------2----2-2-2--0-----------:||
|-------||-------0-------3----3-3-3---------------||

Guitar 1 and 2 basically play the same thing throughout the verse...

D (xx0232@1)       EI (022100@1)see the shapes,
G (320003@1)             AI (x02220@1)remember from maps.
D (xx0232@1)       EI (022100@1)see the shoreline.
G (320003@1)            AI (x02220@1)see the whitecaps.
D (xx0232@1)        E (022100@1)      G (320003@1)               AA (x02220@1)baseball diamond, nice weather down there.
D (xx0232@1)        E (022100@1)   G (320003@1)                           AI (x02220@1)see the school and the houses where the kids are.
D (xx0232@1)        E (022100@1) G (320003@1)                  APlaces (x02220@1)to park by the fac'tries and buildings.
D (xx0232@1)           E (022100@1) G (320003@1)              ARestaunts (x02220@1)and bar for later in the evening.
D (xx0232@1)                 E (022100@1)        G (320003@1)                 AThen (x02220@1)we come to the farmlands, and the undeveloped areas.
D (xx0232@1)        E (022100@1)     G (320003@1)                   AAnd (x02220@1)I have learned how these things work together.
D (xx0232@1)       E (022100@1)     G (320003@1)                      AI (x02220@1)see the parkway that passes through them all.
D (xx0232@1)        E (022100@1)     G (320003@1)                  AAnd (x02220@1)I have learned how to look at these things and I say,

Here's the pattern for the Chorus:

Guitar 1 (slide)
|---------------------------------------------|
|-17-----1712-----1210----------------------|
|-17-----1712-----1210----------------------|
|-17-----1712-----1210----------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|
|Guitar 2
| C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)       F|-0---------3---------1----1-0-1-0-1-0---------| (133211@1)|-1---------3---------1----------------1-------|
|-0---------0---------2------------------------|
|-2---------0---------3------------------------|
|-3---------2---------3------------------------|
|-----------3---------1------------------------|

C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)               FI (133211@1)wouldn't live there if you paid me.
C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)             FI (133211@1)couldn't live like that, no siree!
C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)               FI (133211@1)couldn't do the things the way those people do.
C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)               FI (133211@1)couldn't live there if you paid me to.


Outro: (While he goes Goo goo ga ga ga)

  C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)                F|-----------------------------------------------------------------------| (133211@1)|-17--17--17-17-17---12--12--12-12-12---10--10--10-10-10----------------|
|-17--17--17-17-17---12--12--12-12-12---10--10--10-10-10----------------|
|-17--17--17-17-17---12--12--12-12-12---10--10--10-10-10----------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
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I tabbed this listening to the live version off of The Name of This Band is Talking 
so it might be a little bit different in some parts from the album version