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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 13:08:06 -0500
From: McCollister 
Subject: CRD: 'The Old Apartment' by the Barenaked Ladies

"The Old Apartment"
BNL
from "Barenaked Ladies Rock Spectacle"

This song isn't much trouble, with the help of a piano playing 
aquaintance we worked it up, and pretty much by ear and memory, here's 
the extent of it.

capo 3rd fret

G       D          C            G
broke into the old apartment
G       D                C
this is where we used to live
G             D         C                                     G
broken glass, broke and hungry, broken hearts and broken bones
G       D                C
this is where we used to live
Em  D                 C
why did you paint the walls?
Em  D                 C
why did you clean the floor?
Em  D               C         D                     G
why did you plaster over, the hole I punched in the door?
G       D                C
this is where we used to live
Em  D                C
why did you keep the mousetrap?
C   D                G          
why did you keep the dish rack? 
G            D                  C                               D    
*mute*
these things used to be mine, I guess they still are I want 'em back

G     D            C         G
broke into the old apartment
G     D                   C       G
forty-two stairs from the street
G       D                C                D                   G
crooked landing, crooked landlord, narrow landway filled with crooks
G       D                C
this is where we used to live
Em  D                 C
why did they pave the lawn?
Em  D                   C    
why did they change the locks?
G   D             C         D                   G       
why did I have to break in? I only came here to talk
G       D                C
this is where we used to live
G          D        C
how is the neighbor downstairs?
C   D             G
how is her temper this year?
G        D              C                             D
I turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun

(softly here, getting louder slowly after 2nd phrase, ending with hard 
strums on "I'm happy there"

Em D            G         C
I know we don't live here anymore
Em D             G            C
we bought an old house on the danforth
Em  D                G    D        C
she loves me and her body keeps me warm
C   D     G
I'm happy there

(normal volume now)

G           D                C 
but this is where we used to live

G       D          C
broke into the old apartment
G        D                C
tore the phone out of the wall
G    D               C                              G
only memories, faded memories blending into dull tableaux 
G D         C              D                G
i want them back.. this is where we used to live
G D         C              D                G
i want them back.. this is where we used to live
G D         C
i want them back..

G 
C 
D 
Em 


 This is my first tab put into here, I hope it works, and I hope you 
enjoy it. On that last C chord, Ed does this thing going up a step kinda, 
and I'm assuming he's putting 2 extra light strums in to put a voicing 
with the 3rd fret on the 2nd string... I dunno, mess with it a little, 
and you'll get it with little trouble. Also all of the first chords on 
each phrase are hit a beat before the lyric comes in, not right on it. :)
 
any questions, comments, critiques, not raging powetripping 
complaints.... can be sent to djmccoll@catskill.net

 thanx again, Ben (Squeege)

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