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By the Time You Get This

By the Time You Get This easy guitar chords by They Might Be Giants

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 2

Capo

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Capo
  • G

  • D

  • C

  • Am

  • Dsus4

  • Eb

    6
  • F

  • Bb

  • Em

  • B

    2
  • E

  • G

  • D

  • C

  • Am

  • Dsus4

  • Eb

    6
  • F

  • Bb

  • Em

  • B

    2
  • E

  • Verse 1
    G
    D
    C

    By the time you get this note
    Am
    Dsus4
    G

    We'll no longer be alive
    C

    We'll have all gone up in smoke
    Am
    D
    G

    There'll be no way to reply
    Verse 2
    Eb
    F
    C

    You'll be wondering about the
    D
    G
    Bb
    C

    world that vanished long ago
    Em
    D
    C

    And the words that reach you now
    D
    G

    That were buried underground
    D
    C
    Greetings to everyone in
    Verse 3
    Am

    D
    G

    1937
    D
    C

    It seems that you were never
    Am
    D
    G

    aware that we were here
    Eb
    F
    C
    D

    You're probably too busy re
    G
    Bb
    C

    joicing in the present
    Em
    G
    C

    To stop and be reminded of the
    D
    G

    dark and troubled past
    Verse 4
    G
    D
    C

    By the time you get this note
    Am
    Dsus4
    G

    We'll no longer be alive
    D
    C

    But our skulls are smiling still
    Am
    Dsus4
    G

    At the thought of things to come
    Verse 5
    Eb
    F
    C
    D

    We can confidently know that you'll
    G
    Bb
    C

    enjoy a better world
    Em
    G
    C

    When the evils that we faced
    D
    G

    Will at last be laid to rest
    Verse 6
    Em
    C
    Am

    When the poisons of the Earth
    C
    G
    B
    Em

    Are completely neutralized
    C
    Am

    When the hatred and the lies
    G
    B
    Em

    Are forever put aside
    Verse 7
    C
    D
    Am

    When the voices of dissent and
    B
    Em
    G
    Am

    contradiction all abate
    C
    Em
    Am

    And the peaceful air is filled
    B
    E
    G

    With a silent harmony
    D
    C
    We can't be certain at the mo
    Verse 8
    Am

    D
    G

    ment of this writing
    D
    C

    But surely in the fu ture there'll
    Am
    D
    G

    be no barking dogs
    Eb
    F
    C
    D

    The sound of crying babies will
    G
    Bb
    C

    be thankfully forgotten
    Em
    D
    C

    No more will the chattering
    D
    G

    classes make a noise
    Verse 9
    G
    D
    C

    By the time you get this note
    Dsus4
    G

    A millenium from now
    G
    D
    C

    We'll have all gone up in smoke
    Am
    Dsus4
    G

    There'll be no way to reply
    G
    D
    C

    And we confidently know
    Dsus4
    G

    You'll enjoy a better time
    D
    C

    When the evils that we faced
    Am
    Dsus4
    G

    Will at last be laid to rest

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