Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song Cowtown
Album: Lincoln
Chorus:
D
I’m going down to Cowtown
The cow’s a friend to me
D G A
Lives beneath the ocean and that’s where I will be
D
Beneath the waves, the waves
G A D
And that’s where I will be
D G A D
I’m gonna see the cow beneath the sea
Bridge/Fill:
G-G-G-G-G-G Bb
(TZZZZ!!!)
G-G-G-G-G-G F
(TZZZZ!!!)
G F E G G F E ( X2 )
Verse 1:
D
The yellow Roosevelt Avenue leaf overturned
D G A
The ardor of arboreality is an adventure
D
We have spurned, we’ve spurned
G D
A new leaf overturned
G A D
It’s a new leaf overturned
Chorus:
And so I’m going down to Cowtown
The cow’s a friend to me
Lives beneath the ocean and that’s where I will be
Beneath the waves, the waves
And that’s where I will be
I’m gonna see the cow beneath the sea
Bridge/Fill:
G-G-G-G-G-G Bb
(TZZZZ!!!)
G-G-G-G-G-G F
(TZZZZ!!!)
G F E G G F E ( X2 )
Verse 2:
We yearn to swim for home, but our only home is bone
How sleepless is the egg knowing
That which throws the stone
Foresees the bone, the bone
Our only home is bone
Our only home is bone
Final Chorus:
And so I’m going down to Cowtown
The cow’s a friend to me
Lives beneath the ocean and that’s where I will be
Beneath the waves, the waves
And that’s where I will be
I’m gonna see the cow beneath the sea
Yes I’m going down to Cowtown
The cow’s a friend to me
Lives beneath the ocean and that’s where I will be
Beneath the waves, the waves
And that’s where I will be
I’m gonna see the cow beneath the sea
Yes I’m gonna see (I’m gonna see)
The cow (the cow)
Beneath the sea
