10000 MANIACS - "eat for two" Tablature

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>Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 14:04:23
>To: Jason
>From: Brandon <bder@ucla.edu>
>Subject: Crd. for "Eat for Two"
>
>Eat for Two by 10,000 Maniacs
>from the album 10,000 Maniacs Unplugged
>
>
>This is definitely one of the hardest songs I've ever learned to play.
Best of luck
>with it!
>
>It's difficult because of the chords :
>
>
>Fm XX3111
>Eb/G XX3121
>Eb X43121
>Cm X3554X
>Ab 466544
>Db/F X43121
>Bbm7 X1312X
>C7 X32310
>
>Definitely not a three chord song!
>
>there's also this Fm7omit3rd chord : XX354X
>
>
>Intro Fm7omit3rd
>
>
> Fm Eb/G Eb Cm Ab
Db/F
> Oh, baby blankets and baby shoes, baby slippers, baby spoons, walls
of baby
>
> Db Fm Eb/G Eb Cm Ab Db/F Db
> blue. Dream child in my head is a nightmare born in a borrowed bed
>
> Ab Cm Bbm7 Db Ab
> Now I know, lightning strikes again. It struck me once,
>
> Cm Bbm7 Db Ab Bbm C7
> then struck me dead. My folly grows inside of me I
>
> Fm Fm7omit3rd
> eat for two, walk for two, breathe for two now.
>
> Fm Fm7omit3rd
> eat for two, walk for two, breathe for two now.
>
>
>(the next verses follow this same pattern of chords so I'm only going to
type out the
>lyrics)
>
> Well, the egg man fell down off his shelf
> All the good king's men with all their help
> Struggled 'til the end
> For a shell they couldn't mend
>
> You know where this will lead
> to hush and rock in the nursery
> for the kicking one inside of me.
>
> I eat for two, walk for two, breathe for two now
> I eat for two, walk for two, breathe for two now
>
> When the boy was a boy, and a girl was a girl
> and they found each other in a wicked world
> strong in some respects but she couldn't stand for the way he begged
>
> And gave in. Pride is for men.
> Young girls should run and hide instead.
> Risk the game by taking dares with "yes"
>
> Eat for two, walk for two, breathe for two now.
> eat for two, walk for two, breathe for two now
>
> Fm7
Fm7omit3
> Walk for two? I'm stumbling. Breathe for two? I...I can't breathe.
>
> Fm7
> I can't breathe
>
> Fm no chord
> Five months, how it grows, five months now, I begin to show.
>

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