• Song:

    The Big Country

  • Artist:

    Talking Heads

  • Album:

    Popular Favorites 1976-...

Tom: C5

Intro: C5 D5 F5  F5 G5 (rpt 3 more times) 

   C5        D5     F5               F5 G5 
I see the shapes, I remember from maps 
  C5         D5        F5              F5 G5 
I see the shoreline, I see the whitecaps 
  C5          D5       F5                 F5 G5 
A baseball diamond, nice weather down there 
   C5        D5      F5                         F5    G5 
I see the schools, and the houses where the kids are 
  C5         D5  F5                       F5   G5 
Places to park, by the factories and buildings 
 C5               D5   F5                 F5   G5 
Restaurants and bars for later in the evening 
 A5                      G5    F5                       G5 
Then we come to the farmlands and the undeveloped areas 
 A5               G5      F5                    G5 
And I have learned how these things work together 
  A5               G5 F5                        G5 
I see the parkways that passes through them all 
 A5              G5  F5                        G5 
And I have learned how to look at these things 

CHORUS 
           Bb5          F5                   Eb5 
And I say, I wouldn't live there if you paid me 
Bb5          F5                Eb5 
I wouldn't live there, ooh, no siree 
Bb5          F5                Eb5 
I wouldn't do the things the way those people do 
Bb5          F5                 Eb5 
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 
 A5                              G5  F5                          F5  G5 
They're growin' in those farmlands, then they bring it to the stores 
 A5                            G5  F5                      F5  G5 
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 
 Bb5              F5              Eb5 
Do do da da da   Do do da da da Do do 

(keep on doing chorus with various noises) 

(eventually hold the 
Eb5 a while and end on Bb5 )
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