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Purple Toupee

Purple Toupee easy guitar chords by They Might Be Giants

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

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Capo

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Capo

  • D

  • E

  • A

  • F#m

    2

  • C#

    4

  • B

    2

  • G

  • C

  • Fdim

    3

  • Bb

  • Dm

  • F

  • Eb

    6

  • Gm

    3

  • Cm

    3

  • D

  • E

  • A

  • F#m

    2

  • C#

    4

  • B

    2

  • G

  • C

  • Fdim

    3

  • Bb

  • Dm

  • F

  • Eb

    6

  • Gm

    3

  • Cm

    3
    • 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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