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Purple Toupee chords by 
They Might Be Giants 
N/A•
Intro 1
D
E
A
F#m
E
C#
F#m
B
E
A
B
E
Verse 1
G
I
C
G
remember the year I went to camp
C
G
I heard about some lady named Sel
A
D
ma and some blacks
G
Somebody put their fingers
C
G
in the President's ears
C
G
It wasn't too much later they
D
G
came out with Johnson's wax
D
G
D
I remember the book depository where
G
they crowned the king of Cuba
Now that's all I can think of,
C
G
but I'm sure there's something else
C
G
Way down inside me I can
D
E
feel it coming back
A
Verse 2
F#m
E
C#
Purple toupee will show the way when sum
F#m
B
E
mer brings you down
A
B
(Purple toupee when summer
E
A
brings you down)
D
E
C#
Purple toupee and gold lame will turn
F#m
B
E
your brain around
A
B
E
G
(Purple toupee and gold lame)
Verse 3
C
Chinese people were fighting
G
in the park
C
G
We tried to help them fight
A
, no one appreciated that
D
G
Martin X was mad when they
C
G
outlawed bell bottoms
C
G
Ten years later they
D
G
were sharing the same cell
D
G
I shouted out, "Free the Expo '67"
D
Till they stepped on my hair,
G
and they told me I was fat
Now I'm very big,
C
D
G
I'm a big important man
C
G
And the only thing that's different
D
E
is un derneath my hat
Verse 4
A
F#m
E
C#
Purple toupee will show the way when sum
F#m
B
E
mer brings you down
A
B
(Purple toupee when summer
E
A
brings you down)
D
E
C#
Purple toupee and gold lame will turn
F#m
B
E
your brain around
A
B
(Purple toupee and
E
F#m
gold lame)
B
Purple toupee is here
Verse 5
E
Fdim
to stay
F#m
B
E
after the hair has gone away
A
B
E
The purple brigade is marching from the grave
Interlude 1
E
A
E
Bb
C
Bb
Dm
Bb
F
G
F
A
F
Eb
F
G
Gm
Bb
Dm
Bb
F
G
A
F
Cm
Eb
F
Gm
Bb
C
We're on some kind
Verse 6
Dm
Bb
F
of mission
We have an obligation
Eb
F
Eb
We have to wear toupees
Bb
Outro 1
G
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Cm
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