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Big Bad World One Tab

by Jonathan Coulton


This is the first tab I have ever submitted, enjoy!

Chords

    x02100
  x02120
     022000
      xx0232
      3x0033
    xx3033
    xx2033
/   xx1033
  x32033
    x20033
  x02230
C#m7b5 x4545x
     x35443
      x32010
     x02210
     x1333x
(alt) x3555x

Intro | | |

Verse 1
                         
All alone by the table of food
                         
in my wrinkled suit and my borrowed tie
                            
Only thinking of something to say
                      
in the moment after the girl goes by
                                 /           
 Everyone else is having fun or else pretending to
                  /           
 I eat another crudite

Chorus
    
 I quit, I'm done
                           
'cause I don't think it's gonna turn out OK
                 
It's no fair and it's no fun
                    
If every time it's gonna end the same way:
C#m7b5                  
 Me: zero, Big bad world: one

Verse 2

                              
At the office we're all having cake
                               
'cause it's someone's birthday I don't know who
                                 
Get my plate and I'm scanning the room
                         
and the only seat is right next to you
                                     /           
 I get the nod, the tiny smile that doesn't come with teeth
                           /           
 Maybe you don't know who I am

Chorus
    
 I quit, I'm done
                            
'cause I don't think it's gonna turn out OK
                 
It's no fair and it's no fun
                    
If every time it's gonna end the same way:
C#m7b5                  
 Me: zero, Big bad world: one

Bridge
                        
Staying in-side lying in bed
                            
Noticing something that's not there
                          
Follow my heart, follow my head
                        (alt)                
I'll follow anything that might get me somewhere

Re-Intro: | | |

Verse 3

                                     
Catch her eye when she's pouring my coffee
                        
and search my head for an opening line
                            
But I see by the look on her face
                           
if I keep my mouth shut I'll save some time
                                    /           
 What if the best that I can be just isn't good enough?
                       /           
 Isn't it better not to know?

Chorus
    
 I quit, I'm done
                            
'cause I don't think it's gonna turn out OK
                 
It's no fair and it's no fun
                    
If every time it's gonna end the same way:
C#m7b5                  
 Me: zero, Big bad world: one