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Crash Test Dummies
God Shuffled His Feet Album
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Contents:
God Shuffled His Feet
Afternoons and Coffespoons
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
In the Days of the Caveman
Swimming In Your Ocean
Here I Stand Before Me
I Think I'll Disappear Now
How Does a Duck Know
When I Go Out With Artists
The Psychic
Two Knights and Maidens
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God Shuffled His Feet
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DAfter seven Bmdays, he was
The people sipped their wine, and what with
So he said once there was a boy, who
The people sat wait ing out on their
GQuite tired, so DGod Asaid
God there, they asked him ques tions, like
woke up with blue hair. To
blankets in the gar den. But
DLet there Bmbe a day just for
Do you have to eat, or get your
him it was a joy, until he
God said noth ing. So someone
GPicnics, with Bmwine and Gbread
hair cut in hea ven
ran out into the warm air
asked him, beg your par don
A Gathered up some Dpeople he had Gmade
And if your eye got poked out in this life,
He thought of how his friends would come to see
I'm not quite clear a bout what you just spoke
Em Created blankets and Dlaid back in the Gshade
would it be waiting up in heaven with your wife
and would they laugh or had he got some strange dis ease
Was that a parable or a very subtle joke
[Chorus]
AGod shuffled his Efeet and glanced a Around at them
D The Apeople cleared their Ethroats and stared right Aback at him D G
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Afternoons and Coffespoons
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[Intro - 4/4 time, all chords 1/2 measure each]
F F F Bb F F F Bb C C C C
[Verses]
FWhat is it that Cmakes me just a Flittle bit Bbqueasy C
Times when the day is like a play by Sartre
Maybe if I could do a play by playback
F There's a breeze that Cmakes my breathing Fnot so Bbeasy C
When it seems a book burning's in perfect order
I could change the test results that I will get back
Ab I've had my Dblungs checked out with EbX rays
I gave the doctor my de scription
I've watched the summer evenings pass by
Ab I've smelled the Dbhospital Ebhallways Fm Db
I've tried to stick to my presciptions
I've heard the rattle in my bronchi
[Chorus]
FSomeday BbI'll have
F a disappearing hair Cline
FSomeday BbI'll wear
F pajamas in the day Ctime
[Extended Chorus (play 2nd and 3d time through)]
Bb Oh .... Foh .... oh
CAfter Fnoons will be
Bbmeasured out, Dmmeasured out, and
Bbmeasured with
C coffe Fspoons, and T.S. BbEliot
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Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
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[Intro - 4/4 time, all chords 1/2 measure each]
Gm7 Dm7 Gm7 Dm7 Ab Bb Ab Bb
[Verses]
CmOnce Bbthere was this Ebkid who
Once there was this girl who
Once there was this boy whose
Abgot into an Ebaccident and Bbcouldn't come to Ebschool, but
wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room. And
parents made him come directly home right after school. And
Abwhen he finally Bbcame back
when they finally made her
when they went to their church
Bbhis Ebhair Abhad turned from Ebblack into bright Bbwhite. He
they saw birthmarks all over her body. She
they shook and lurched all over the church floor. He
Bsaid that it was Ebfrom when the Bcars had smashed
couldn't quite ex plain it. They'd always just
couldn't quite ex plain it. They'd always just
Bbso Abhard. [To Chorus]
been there. [To Chorus, then to Bridge]
gone there. [To Chorus, then fade]
[Chorus]
Gm7Mmm mmm Dm7mmm mmm. Gm7Mmm mmm Dm7mmm mmm. Ab Bb
Gm7Mmm mmm Dm7mmm mmm. Gm7Mmm mmm Dm7mmm mmm. Ab Bb
[Bridge]
FmBut both girl and Ebboy were Bbglad
Fmthat one kid had it Ebworse than Bbthat Ab 'Cause ...
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In the Days of the Caveman
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[Intro]
G#mWhen you go on camping trips,
F#You're stuck right out in Bnature. G#m B
E Foraging the F#forests like a primate.
E Using sharpened F#tools instead of hot plates G#m B
[Verses]
Your Ethumb and forefinger
Sometimes when I lie awake,
when I finally get to sleep,
F#supposed to show you're not a Bwild beast. G#m B
I hear the rainfall on my tent fly.
I dream in Techni color.
EYou can hear their F#noises at night time
I think of all the insects that are sleeping,
I see creatures come back from the Ice Age
EThey don't have to F#keep a certain bed time. G#m B
and wonder if the animals are dreaming.
alive and being fed inside a zoo cage.
[Chorus]
F#See in the G#mshapes of my Ebody
F#leftover G#mparts from the Eapes and monkeys F#
[Extended Chorus (play 2nd and 3d time through)]
CIn the days of the Dcaveman,
and Gmammoths, and Emglaciers.
CBugs and trees were your Dfood then
Gno pajamas, or Emdoctors. C G
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Swimming in Your Ocean
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[Intro - 4/4 time, 1 measure per chord]
F F C Am F C
[Verses]
GWhen I'm Csampling from your Ambosom
When I kneel before your bounty
When you let me taste your fingers
Gsometimes CI suffer from distractions like
sometimes I wonder if there could be really
I take them like fruit and as I linger, I
Fmaj7Why does God Amcause things like torna Cdoes and train wrecks.
U F O's that come from other planets.
wonder if my seed will find pur chase in your soil.
[Chorus]
FWhen I'm swimming in, when I'm swimming in your ocean,
Cfloating aloft on creams Amand scented lotion, well
FI can get pretty sidetracked. CI hope you understand.
[Postchorus Instrumental]
Am F G Dm7 G Dm7 Bb Bb
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Here I Stand Before Me
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[Intro (simple, ain't it')]
Esus4
[Verses]
AMy doctor told me that it was time for me to have my EX ray.
Well, take my fingers, what to fingers really mean to me'
[Instrumental 3d verse]
F#mOf course, I had many night Amares Esus4about the fatal day.
Oh, you can easily look them up in the dictionary.
[Instrumental 3d verse]
AThe room was dark and my skeleton was floating on the Ewall.
They call them digits or techically they're known as the pha langes.
[Instrumental 3d verse]
DMy voice Gtrembles down in Aside me.
My joints con nected up in side me,
My, my the future lay be fore me.
DI'm trapped Gway down in my Abody. G D
way down deep inside my body.
Hey hey, deep inside my body.
[Chorus]
GI, I, I, Aoh here I stand be Dfore me, but
Asomething's out of Dplace here.
GMy mind's eye is Amissing from my Dbody.
GWell, I know it's there, Abut I can't see where. D
[First time through, play G and goto second verse. Second time through,
play Bm -> B and then this bridge]
EMy bones shine brightly, a Amap of my whole Bbody.
EMy vital organs just Achurn away in Bside me. Some-
Eday Bthey're going to stop this motion, Eand I'll be left with
[Then play B, D and goto the instrumental third verse.]
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I Think I'll Disappear Now
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[Intro - 4/4 time, 4 distinct beats per chord except for [Csus4-C]
and [Dm-C], which are each 4 beats total]
Bb C F Csus4 Bb [Csus4-C] F Bb F [Dm-C]
[Vocal Intro]
FRunning into Bbyou like this without a Fwarning Dm
Cis like Bbcatching a sniff of te Cquila in the Fmorning.
DmBut I'll try, I'll Bbtry to keep my food down.
FThat's quite an aftertaste that Dmyou've left now that
Gmyou're not a Cround. Bb Csus4 C
[Verses]
FYou can just pretend we're Bbnot in the Fsame room. Dm Csus4
I'll buy a fast car and drive it fast from here.
Well, you can bet that I'll forget how it was then,
BbWell alright I'll just Cmosey to the Fbathroom.
There's a beach I haven't seen since last year.
all the drives to your farm for the weekend.
DmYou flew by like a Bbsummer vacation
It's far, but I like night drives
But I've seen the swimsuit magazines
Fand you left me with DmTV movies and a Gmmessy Ckitchen
it just makes it nicer when I do ar rive.
and I've smelled te quila first thing in the morning.
[Chorus]
BbI think CI'll disap Fpear now, slip out sideways.
BbJust for a Cwhile, but un Amtil then, I'll Dmstay in and sleep late. Ex -
Bbcuse me.
[Extended Chorus (play 2nd and 3d times through)]
Csus C GmAren't you going to Cmiss me'
GmAren't you going to Feven say one Dmthing to Bmme anymore. F B
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How Does a Duck Know
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FHow does a duck know
Cwhat direction Fsouth is' Bb
FAnd how to tell his wife Cfrom all the other ducks' F Bb
DYou can cut a chicken's head Aoff
Dbut it will keep on Erunning and Dtwitching. A
DWhen everything seems Eplanned out
Dwhen everything seems Enicely planned out
Dwell the human race Awill come and smack your face E
FHow come all my body parts
Cso nicely fit to Fgether' Bb
FAll my organs doing their Cjobs, no help from Fme. Bb
A Dperson pulls a spider's leg Aout
Dto watch it keep on Emoving and Dtwitching. A
DWhen everything seems Eplanned out
Dwhen everything seems Enicely planned out
Dwell the human race Awill come and smack your face E
Bbmaj7Satan
Clives here F
on grain and earth, Arain and air. Bb E