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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.
>