How Now Dark Cloud? chords by They Might Be Giants

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Verse 1

I have been poisoned by lead

And from this one pencil it's spread

And now it's seeped into the thread

Of all my black clothes

Verse 2
G 
Get back in the white  (G major) panel
A 
van  (A major) 
F#m 
Bm 
Reshuffle the  (F sharp minor) old   master plan  (B minor) 
E 
C 
For we are the Flying  (E major) Dutchmen  (C major) 
A 
And that's all we  (A major) know

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Verse 3

This is the end of the half- written tale

Of a man and the cake and the rain

How now dark cloud?

Verse 4
D 
 (D major) 
G 
Bm 
D 
A 
I got a lazy  (G major)  (B minor) eye  (D major)  (A major) 
F#m 
Bm 
Attached to a  (F sharp minor) lazy  mind  (B minor) 
E 
C 
Attached to a  (E major) lazy guy  (C major) 
A 
D 
Adrift on the  (A major) sea  (D major) 

Verse 5

And these are the dispatches

No sequins or mismatches

All tied up in small batches

Left under a tree

Verse 6

You had your fun and had love put aside

Been crushed by the tumblin' tide

How now dark cloud?

Interlude 1

Verse 7
D 
Bm 
A 
Wake up Miss  (D major) Mys (B minor) terious  (A major) 
F#m 
Bm 
And the  (F sharp minor)  (B minor) 
slideshow projectionist
E 
C 
And we will all swing  (E major) from the truss  (C major) 
A 
Until the  (A major) dawn