They Might Be Giants

e: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:51:13 -0700 (PDT)



	Metal Detector
	They Might Be Giants
	from "Factory Showroom"		chconnor@hotmail.com

This song is a lot simpler than I make it out to be here... Some notes:
often the lyrics change subtly (i.e. waiting there beneath the sand vs.
hidden there underneath the land; don't need to squaking gull vs. don't
need no gull on the echo part, etc...) God bless tmbg.

The |X |X |X format is supposed to be measures, but I think I may switch
unannounced between whole and half-measures in this. You'll get it.

|X/Y means chord X with note Y in the bass.

I probably shouldn't have written everything as sharps, but I don't know
anything about music theory.

Some of the voicings here are hard, but they're worth it for that
thoughtful Giants effect.

	/---------- Low E
	V

C6	x32033
D/A	x00232
Gsus/C	x30013 or x30033 or G6sus4/C as x32033 (=C or C6)... whatever ...
G/B	x20033
G9/A	x00033
G#	466544
C#m	x46654
F#/C#	x4667x
G#/D#	x66544
F#/A#	698565
G#/C	8-11-10-787


|G            |C6             |G                  |D/A   |G
Down at the shore there's a place where there's no one vacationing

|Gsus/C | G/B |G9/A

                 |G             |G         |G      |D/A      |A
There's just the sound of the call of the wild overcoming the fear of

      |G#
the unknown

             |C#m      |F#/C#          |C#m   |F#/C#
And I've got something     to help you understand
          |E      |A       |E          |G#/D#
Something waiting there, beneath the sand

|C#m   |F#/C#    |C#m |F#/C# |C#m         |F#/C#       |C#m    |F#/C#
  My   metal detector          is with me all of the time

|E!   |A    |C#m    |B         |E    |A   |C#m   |B
  I'm the inspector over the mine

|A
  Look past the volleyball
                   Look past the ball
|E
  Look past the squaking gull
                    Look past the gull

|G#m         |A             |F#/A#      |G#/C
  Ignore the mountain of discarded folderal

               |C#m     |F#/C#        |C#m    |F#/C#
Cause I've got something  to make you understand

	  |E          |A      |E         |G#/D#
something hidden there   underneath the land

|C#m    |F#/C#    |C#m |F#/C# |C#m         |F#/C#       |C#m  |F#/C#
  My    metal detector          is with me all of the time

|E!   |A       |C#m |B        |E |A |C#m |B
  I'm the inspector over the mine

|E |A      |C#m |B       |E |A |C#m |B
 Metal detector watch it shine

|G          |C6         |G       |D/A           |G |Gsus/C |G/B |G9/A
Every sea shell has a story to tell if you're listening

         |G            |C6             |G       |D/A           |A
But underneath every shell there's a story as well if you've heard enough

        |D
of the sea.

          |G            |C6           |G       |D/A         |G
Then everything on the top will just sudenly stop sounding interesting

|Gsus/C |G/B |G9/A

          |G          |Gsus/C       |G/B           |G9/A
So listen now to the sound of the things that are found under (over?) the

|G |G |G |G#
ground

[early years Giants samples over these chords:]

|C#m |F#/C# |C#m |F#/C# |C#m |F#/C# |C#m |F#/C#
|E |A |C#m |B |E |A |C#m |B

|A
  Don't need no volleyball
                   Don't need no volleyball
|E
  Don't need no squaking gull
                    Don't need no squaking gull

|G#m            |A              |F#/A#         |G#/C
  Don't need to look at  any     bathing beauty doll
                   Don't need to look at    any doll

             |C#m      |F#/C#             |C#m   |F#/C#
For I've got something        to help you understand

          |E        |A    |C#m       |B
Something waiting there beneath the sand

|C#m |F#/C#   |C#m |F#/C# |C#m         |F#/C#       |C#m |F#/C#
  My metal detector         is with me all of the time

|E!   |A      |C#m  |B         |E |A |C#m |B
  I'm the inspector over the mine

|A
  Look past the volleyball
                   Look past the ball
|E
  Look past the squaking gull
                    Look past the gull

|G#m         |A             |F#/A#      |G#/C
  Ignore the mountain of discarded folderal

               |C#m      |F#/C#         |C#m   |F#/C#
Cause I've got something    to make you understand

          |E        |A      |C#m       |B
something hidden there underneath the land

|C#m |F#/C#    |C#m  |F#/C# |C#m        |F#/C#      |C#m |F#/C#
  My metal detector          is with me all of the time

|E!   |A      |C#m  |B         |E |A |C#m |B
  I'm the inspector over the mine

|E! |A      |C#m |B         |E |A |C#m |B
  Metal detector watch it shine

|E!    |A      |C#m  |B
 Don't need no volleyball
                  Don't need no volleyball

|E     |A      |C#m     |B
 Don't need no squaking gull
                   Don't need no squaking gull

|E |A      |C#m |B      |E  |A      |C#m |B       |E |A |C#m |B
 Metal detector all the time (vocal note ends on f# for "time"...cool)
	                  Metal detector all the time)

|C#m |C#m |C#m |C#m | etc...