Talking Heads - The Big Country

      
 
 TALKINGHEADS
 
 Intro:
 
 Guitar 1
 play with a slide and let all the notes ring

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 |Guitar 2
 | D E G A D

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 Guitar 1 and 2 basically play the same thing throughout the verse...
 
 D         E      
 I see the shapes,
 G               A    
 I remember from maps.
 D         E         
 I see the shoreline.
 G              A    
 I see the whitecaps.
 D          E        G                 A     
 A baseball diamond, nice weather down there.
 D          E     G                             A   
 I see the school and the houses where the kids are.
 D          E   G                   A           
 Places to park by the fac??tries and buildings.
 D             E   G                A       
 Restaunts and bar for later in the evening.
 D                   E          G                   A     
 Then we come to the farmlands, and the undeveloped areas.
 D          E       G                     A        
 And I have learned how these things work together.
 D         E       G                        A   
 I see the parkway that passes through them all.
 D          E       G                    A                
 And I have learned how to look at these things and I say,
 
 Here's the pattern for the Chorus:
 
 Guitar 1 (slide)

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 |Guitar 2
 | C G F

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 C         G                 F         
 I wouldn??t live there if you paid me.
 C         G               F          
 I couldn??t live like that, no siree!
 C         G                 F                     
 I couldn??t do the things the way those people do.
 C         G                 F            
 I couldn??t live there if you paid me to.
 
 Outro: (While he goes Goo goo ga ga ga)
 
 C G F 
    

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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