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
Read more on Last.fm
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
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
*I did not make this, I am only uploading it from Jonathan Coulton's wiki for use in the
portable ultimate-guitar app for the iPod/iPhone*
Original chords and tabs by cb. New tabs reflecting live performance at Denver in 2009
(and minor edits to chords for consistency) by MattMcMullen.
Chords:
Em9 x7577x
A13 5x567x
DM7 x5767x
D7 x5757x
C#m x4665x
F# 2x432x
Bm x24432
Bm/A x0443x
Bm/G# 4x443x (I use my thumb for the G#)
GM7 3x443x
A#13 686786
Verse:
Em9 A13
Today's the day it gets better
Em9 A13
This much I know
Em9 A13
I'm gone, I'm getting out
Bridge:
DM7 D7
And all you suckers can watch me go
C#m F# Bm Bm/A
And I don't know where I'm going yet
Bm/G# GM7 A D A7
But it's somewhere quite a ways from here I'll bet
Chorus: (3x)
G D
It's gonna be so far, so good
Verse:
Em9 A13
Too late to make it all better
Em9 A13
This time it's real
Em9 A13
No need for looking back
Bridge:
DM7 D7
Don't have to talk about how we feel
C#m F# Bm Bm/A
And there's no one we can pin this on
Bm/G# GM7 A D A7
'Cause you can't see that it's going till it's gone
Chorus: (3x)
G D
But we got so far, so good
Banjo Solo:
Bm Bm/G# Gmaj7 F#7 (3x)
G A#13 D
Verse:
Em9 A13
Too bad, we could have done better
Em9 A13
Next time we'll know
Em9 A13
So sad, should have been
Bridge:
DM7 D7
If only wishing could make it so
C#m7 F#7 Bm Bm/A
In a thousand years we'll meet again
Bm/G# Gmaj7 A D A7
With the saddest smile you'll ask me how I've been
Chorus: (3x)
G D
I'm gonna say so far, so good
Intro and Verse
Em9 A13
-------------------||---------------------------|----------------------------|
-------------------||-------7-------------------|-----------7----------------|
-------------------||o---------------7----------|--6--------------6----------|
-------------------||o------5-----------5-------|--------5-----------5-------|
--0--5-----6-------||-7-----------7-------------|----------------------------|
-------------------||---------------------------|--5-----------5-------------|
Em9 A13
----------------------------|---------------------------||
--------7-------------------|-----------0---------------||
-----------------7----------|--6--------------6--------o||
--------5-----------5-------|--------5-----------7-----o||
--7-----------7-------------|---------------------------||
----------------------------|--5-----------5------------||
Em9 A13
----------------------------|----------------------------|
--------7-------------------|-----------7----------------|
-----------------7----------|--6--------------6----------|
--------5-----------5-------|--------5-----------5-------|
--7-----------7-------------|----------------------------|
----------------------------|--5-----------5-------------|
Bridge
DM7 D7 C#m
----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|
-----------7----------------|-----------7----------------|-----------5----------------|
-----------------6----------|--5--------------5----------|-----------------6----------|
--------7-----------7-------|--------7-----------7-------|--------6-----------6-------|
--5-------------------------|--5-------------------------|--4-------------------------|
----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|
F# Bm Bm/A
----------------------------|-----------2----------------|-----------0----------------|
-----------2----------------|--3--------------3----------|--3--------------3----------|
-----------------3----------|-----------------------4----|-----------------------4----|
--------4-----------4-------|--------4-----------4-------|--------4-----------4-------|
----------------------------|--2-----------2-------------|--0-----------0-------------|
--2-------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|
Bm/G# GM7 A
-----------0----------------|-----------0----------------|-----------------0----------|
--3--------------3----------|--3--------------3----------|--------2-------------------|
-----------------------4----|-----------------------4----|----------------------------|
--------4-----------4-------|--------4-----------4-------|--------2-----------2-------|
----------------------------|----------------------------|--0-----------0-------------|
--4-----------4-------------|--3-----------3-------------|----------------------------|
D A7
-----------0----------------|----------------------------|-------|
--3--------------3----------|--------5-------------------|--10---|
----------------------------|-----------------6----------|-------|
--------4-----------4-------|--------5-----------5-------|-------|
--0-----------0-------------|--0-----------0-------------|--0----|
----------------------------|----------------------------|-------|
Chorus
G
||---------------------------|----------------------------|
||-------2--------3----------|--2--------3--------2-------|
||o------0--------0----------|--0--------0--------0-------|
||o--------------------------|----------------------------|
||---------------------------|----------------------------|
||-3-----3-----3-----3-------|--3-----3-----3-----3-------|
D
----------------------------|---------------------------||
--------2--------3----------|--2--------3--------2------||
--------2--------2----------|--2--------2--------2-----o||
--0-----0-----0-----0-------|--0-----0-----0-----0-----o||
----------------------------|---------------------------||
----------------------------|---------------------------||
G
----------------------------|----------------------------|
--------2--------3----------|--2--------3--------2-------|
--------0--------0----------|--0--------0--------0-------|
----------------------------|----------------------------|
----------------------------|----------------------------|
--3-----3-----3-----3-------|--3-----3-----3-----3-------|
D
----------------------------|--2----|
--------2--------3----------|--2----|
--------2--------2----------|--2----|
--0-----0-----0-----0-------|--0----|
----------------------------|-------|
----------------------------|-------|
portable ultimate-guitar app for the iPod/iPhone*
Original chords and tabs by cb. New tabs reflecting live performance at Denver in 2009
(and minor edits to chords for consistency) by MattMcMullen.
Chords:
Em9 x7577x
A13 5x567x
DM7 x5767x
D7 x5757x
C#m x4665x
F# 2x432x
Bm x24432
Bm/A x0443x
Bm/G# 4x443x (I use my thumb for the G#)
GM7 3x443x
A#13 686786
Verse:
Em9 A13
Today's the day it gets better
Em9 A13
This much I know
Em9 A13
I'm gone, I'm getting out
Bridge:
DM7 D7
And all you suckers can watch me go
C#m F# Bm Bm/A
And I don't know where I'm going yet
Bm/G# GM7 A D A7
But it's somewhere quite a ways from here I'll bet
Chorus: (3x)
G D
It's gonna be so far, so good
Verse:
Em9 A13
Too late to make it all better
Em9 A13
This time it's real
Em9 A13
No need for looking back
Bridge:
DM7 D7
Don't have to talk about how we feel
C#m F# Bm Bm/A
And there's no one we can pin this on
Bm/G# GM7 A D A7
'Cause you can't see that it's going till it's gone
Chorus: (3x)
G D
But we got so far, so good
Banjo Solo:
Bm Bm/G# Gmaj7 F#7 (3x)
G A#13 D
Verse:
Em9 A13
Too bad, we could have done better
Em9 A13
Next time we'll know
Em9 A13
So sad, should have been
Bridge:
DM7 D7
If only wishing could make it so
C#m7 F#7 Bm Bm/A
In a thousand years we'll meet again
Bm/G# Gmaj7 A D A7
With the saddest smile you'll ask me how I've been
Chorus: (3x)
G D
I'm gonna say so far, so good
Intro and Verse
Em9 A13
-------------------||---------------------------|----------------------------|
-------------------||-------7-------------------|-----------7----------------|
-------------------||o---------------7----------|--6--------------6----------|
-------------------||o------5-----------5-------|--------5-----------5-------|
--0--5-----6-------||-7-----------7-------------|----------------------------|
-------------------||---------------------------|--5-----------5-------------|
Em9 A13
----------------------------|---------------------------||
--------7-------------------|-----------0---------------||
-----------------7----------|--6--------------6--------o||
--------5-----------5-------|--------5-----------7-----o||
--7-----------7-------------|---------------------------||
----------------------------|--5-----------5------------||
Em9 A13
----------------------------|----------------------------|
--------7-------------------|-----------7----------------|
-----------------7----------|--6--------------6----------|
--------5-----------5-------|--------5-----------5-------|
--7-----------7-------------|----------------------------|
----------------------------|--5-----------5-------------|
Bridge
DM7 D7 C#m
----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|
-----------7----------------|-----------7----------------|-----------5----------------|
-----------------6----------|--5--------------5----------|-----------------6----------|
--------7-----------7-------|--------7-----------7-------|--------6-----------6-------|
--5-------------------------|--5-------------------------|--4-------------------------|
----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|
F# Bm Bm/A
----------------------------|-----------2----------------|-----------0----------------|
-----------2----------------|--3--------------3----------|--3--------------3----------|
-----------------3----------|-----------------------4----|-----------------------4----|
--------4-----------4-------|--------4-----------4-------|--------4-----------4-------|
----------------------------|--2-----------2-------------|--0-----------0-------------|
--2-------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|
Bm/G# GM7 A
-----------0----------------|-----------0----------------|-----------------0----------|
--3--------------3----------|--3--------------3----------|--------2-------------------|
-----------------------4----|-----------------------4----|----------------------------|
--------4-----------4-------|--------4-----------4-------|--------2-----------2-------|
----------------------------|----------------------------|--0-----------0-------------|
--4-----------4-------------|--3-----------3-------------|----------------------------|
D A7
-----------0----------------|----------------------------|-------|
--3--------------3----------|--------5-------------------|--10---|
----------------------------|-----------------6----------|-------|
--------4-----------4-------|--------5-----------5-------|-------|
--0-----------0-------------|--0-----------0-------------|--0----|
----------------------------|----------------------------|-------|
Chorus
G
||---------------------------|----------------------------|
||-------2--------3----------|--2--------3--------2-------|
||o------0--------0----------|--0--------0--------0-------|
||o--------------------------|----------------------------|
||---------------------------|----------------------------|
||-3-----3-----3-----3-------|--3-----3-----3-----3-------|
D
----------------------------|---------------------------||
--------2--------3----------|--2--------3--------2------||
--------2--------2----------|--2--------2--------2-----o||
--0-----0-----0-----0-------|--0-----0-----0-----0-----o||
----------------------------|---------------------------||
----------------------------|---------------------------||
G
----------------------------|----------------------------|
--------2--------3----------|--2--------3--------2-------|
--------0--------0----------|--0--------0--------0-------|
----------------------------|----------------------------|
----------------------------|----------------------------|
--3-----3-----3-----3-------|--3-----3-----3-----3-------|
D
----------------------------|--2----|
--------2--------3----------|--2----|
--------2--------2----------|--2----|
--0-----0-----0-----0-------|--0----|
----------------------------|-------|
----------------------------|-------|
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