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by Jonathan Coulton


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			     IKEA - Jonathan Coulton
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Tuning: Standard (eBGDAE)

    	    	    
Long ago in days of yore
		    	     
It all began with a god named Thor
	    	       
There were Vikings and boats
	  		       	         
And some plans for a furniture store

      	      	       	     
It's not a bodega, it's not a mall
			  	   	       
And they sell things for apartments smaller than mine
		   					   
As if there were apartments smaller than mine

     		    			        
Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen
     	        		                
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men
         	
Everyone has a home
     		 		             	   
But if you don't have a home you can buy one there

     	  	 	 
So rent a car or take the bus
	  	                
Lay your cash down and put your trust
			      		      	     
In the land where the furniture folds to a much smaller size

	   	       
Billy the bookcase says hello
 	       		 	
And so does a table whose name is Ingo
	 	    	       				   	     
And the chair is a ladder-back birch but his friends call him Karl


     		    			        
Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen
     	        		                
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men
         	
Everyone has a home
     		 		             	   
But if you don't have a home you can buy one there

	    
   Ikea: plywood, brushed steel
	   	    Dadd4/
   Ikea: meatballs, tasty
	  
   Ikea: Allen wrenches

All of them for free

All of them for me

      	             
I'm sorry I said Ikea sucks
			   
I just bought a table for 60 bucks
		  	     			             
And a chair and a lamp and a shelf and some candles for you

	 		
I was a doubter just like you
				  
‘Till I saw the American dream come true
		    	  		  
In New Jersey, they got a goddamned Swedish parade


     		    			        
Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen
     	        		                
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men
         	
Everyone has a home
     		 		             	   
But if you don't have a home you can buy one there


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