10000 MANIACS - "Eat For Two" Tablature

Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 14:04:23
To: Jason
From: Brandon
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.