Biography:
Jonathan Coulton is a geek rock / folk rock musician active since 2003 from Brooklyn, known for his songs about geek culture. He is best known for such compositions as "Still Alive" and "Code Monkey", as well as his cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back". He is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman's Little Gray Book Lectures.
Every week for a year Coulton released a new song for free on his website as part of his Thing a Week podcast
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Other songs:
- A Talk With George
- Alone At Home
- Artificial Heart
- Baby Got Back (acoustic Version)
- Baby Got Back Acoustic
- Betty And Me
- Big Bad World One
- Chiron Beta Prime
- Code Monkey
- Dissolve
- Down Today
- Drinking With You
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- First Of May
- Glasses
- Good Morning Tuscon
- I Crush Everything
- I'm Your Moon
- Ikea
- Mr. Fancy Pants
- My Monkey
- Nemeses
- Not About You
- One Christmas At A Time
- Portal - Still Alive - Valve (full)
- Re: Your Brains
- Shopvac
- Skullcrusher Mountain
- Soft Rocked By Me
- Still Alive
- Still Alive- Artificial Heart Version
- The Future Soon
- Tom Cruise Crazy
- When You Go
- You Ruined Everything
- Want You Gone
- A Laptop Like You
- All This Time
- Always The Moon
- Baby Got Back
- Ball And Chain
- Better
- Blue Sunny
- Blue Sunny Day
- Bozos Lament
- Brave
- Brookline
- Cave
- Christmas Is Interesting
- Creepy Doll
- Curl
- Dance Soterios Johnson Dance
- De
- Dont Talk To Strangers
- Flickr
- Fraud
- Furry Old Lobster
- Gamblers Prayer
- Good Morning Tucson
- I Feel Fantastic
- I Hate California
- I Will
- If The Earth Were A Sandwich
- Im Having A Party
- Im Your Moon
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- Love Aint No Billy Goat
- Madelaine
- Mandelbrot Set
- Millionaire Girlfriend
- Mr Fancy Pants
- My Beige Bear
- Nemesese
- Nobody Loves You Like Me
- Nobodys Above The Law
- Now I Am An Arsonist
- Octopus
- Ordinary Man
- Over There
- Overhead
- Pizza Day
- Podsafe Christmas Song
- Popsci Podcast On The Moon
- Previously On Braindead
- Re Your Brains
- Red Shirt
- Screwed
- Shop Vac
- So Far So Good
- Solid State
- Someone Is Crazy
- Space Doggity
- Square Things
- Sticking It To Myself
- Sucker Punch
- The Big Boom
- The Presidents
- The Presidents Song
- The Princess Who Saved Herself
- The Town Crotch
- The World Belongs To You
- There You Are
- Today With Your Wife
- Todd The T1000
- Under The Pines
- You Could Be Her
- You Wouldnt Know
- Your Tattoo
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(no chords in first verse)
In a town in the woods at the top of a hill
There’s a house where no one lives
So you take a big bag of your big city money there.. and buy it
Then at night when the house is dark
And you’re all alone there’s a noise upstairs
At the top of the stairs there’s a door so you take a deep breath and try it
F C Dm Am
And the flashlight shows you something moving just inside the door
F C D E
There’s a tattered dress and a feeling you have felt somewhere before....
[ chorus ]
Am F
And there’s a creepy doll, That always follows you
G Gb G Ab A
It’s got a ruined eye, That’s al-ways.. o-pen
Am F
And there’s a creepy doll, That always follows you
G Gb G Ab A
It’s got a pretty mouth, To swallow.. you whole
Fmaj7
Am E
So you scream and you close the door
C D
And you tell yourself it was just a dream
F C D E
In the morning you head into town cause you want to go.. antiquing
Am E
In the store there’s a strange old man
C D
With a wandering eye and a withered hand
F C D E
When he hands you the old wooden box you can hear his old bones creaking
F(maj7) C Dm Am
And you know what you will find inside the moment that you see
F C D E
That someone carved your name into the tarnished silver key
[ repeat chorus ]
F C Dm Am
And when you come home late the doll is waiting up for you
F C Dm Am
And when you fix a snack the doll says it would like one too
F G F G
The doll is in your house and in your room and in your bed
F G Fmaj7 G C
The doll is in your eyes and in your arms and in your head and you are crazy
F D7 F
Am E
Now it’s late and you head downstairs
C D
Cause you just can’t sleep so you make some tea
F C D E
And the doll disapprovingly asks if you really need that much honey
Am E
You decide that you’ve had enough
C D
And you lock the doll in the wooden box
F C D E
You put the box in the fireplace next to your bag of big city money
F(maj7) C Dm Am
As the smoke fills up your tiny room there’s nothing you can do
F C D E
And far too late you see the one inside the box is you
[ repeat chorus ]
In a town in the woods at the top of a hill
There’s a house where no one lives
So you take a big bag of your big city money there.. and buy it
Then at night when the house is dark
And you’re all alone there’s a noise upstairs
At the top of the stairs there’s a door so you take a deep breath and try it
F C Dm Am
And the flashlight shows you something moving just inside the door
F C D E
There’s a tattered dress and a feeling you have felt somewhere before....
[ chorus ]
Am F
And there’s a creepy doll, That always follows you
G Gb G Ab A
It’s got a ruined eye, That’s al-ways.. o-pen
Am F
And there’s a creepy doll, That always follows you
G Gb G Ab A
It’s got a pretty mouth, To swallow.. you whole
Fmaj7
Am E
So you scream and you close the door
C D
And you tell yourself it was just a dream
F C D E
In the morning you head into town cause you want to go.. antiquing
Am E
In the store there’s a strange old man
C D
With a wandering eye and a withered hand
F C D E
When he hands you the old wooden box you can hear his old bones creaking
F(maj7) C Dm Am
And you know what you will find inside the moment that you see
F C D E
That someone carved your name into the tarnished silver key
[ repeat chorus ]
F C Dm Am
And when you come home late the doll is waiting up for you
F C Dm Am
And when you fix a snack the doll says it would like one too
F G F G
The doll is in your house and in your room and in your bed
F G Fmaj7 G C
The doll is in your eyes and in your arms and in your head and you are crazy
F D7 F
Am E
Now it’s late and you head downstairs
C D
Cause you just can’t sleep so you make some tea
F C D E
And the doll disapprovingly asks if you really need that much honey
Am E
You decide that you’ve had enough
C D
And you lock the doll in the wooden box
F C D E
You put the box in the fireplace next to your bag of big city money
F(maj7) C Dm Am
As the smoke fills up your tiny room there’s nothing you can do
F C D E
And far too late you see the one inside the box is you
[ repeat chorus ]
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