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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Chords:
A5 x022xx
F#m(maj7) 243222
Dmaj7 xx0222
Dm(maj7) xx0221
Riffs:
A riff:
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22-22-2-|
22-22-2-|
00-02-3-|
--------| repeat
E riff:
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--------|
--------|
22-22-2-|
22-22-2-|
00-02-3-| repeat
Bridge:
--------|--------|--------|--------|
--------|--------|--------|--------|
2--2--2-|0--0--0-|2--2--2-|2--2--2-|
2--2--2-|2--2--2-|4--4--4-|3--3--3-|
00000000|00000000|00000000|00000000
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--------|0--0--0-|1--1--1-|3--3--3-|
2--2--2-|0--0--0-|2--2--2-|2--2--2-|
2--2--2-|2--2--2-|4--4--4-|3--3--3-|
00000000|00000000|00000000|00000000
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5--5--5-|
2--2--2-|
2--2--2-|
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A5 A riff
It was 3 AM when I heard the sound
E riff
Stuck my head outside and I looked around
D
In the echo the car alarms ringing
F#m F#m(maj7)
The sense that something terrible had happened again
F#m7 B F#m F#m(maj7)
Cut the lights and put the TV on
F#m7 B
And they said that Michigan was gone
Bm E
Gone for good
D A
And now I'm waiting for the big boom
E F#m
It knows where I'm gonna be
D A
The big boom
E
I'm always getting closer to
D A
The big boom
E F#m
And it will catch up to me
Dmaj7 Dm(maj7)
The big boom
A riff
There are few safe places left today
E riff
Every night they come and take one away
D
Early on we believed we had a chance
F#m F#m(maj7)
Now there's no one who thinks that way anymore
F#m7 B F#m F#m(maj7)
And the infrastructure's coming down
F#m7 B
And the government went underground
Bm E
Gone for good
D A
And now I'm waiting for the big boom
E F#m
It knows where I'm gonna be
D A
The big boom
E
I'm always getting closer to
D A
The big boom
E F#m
And it will catch up to me
Dmaj7 Dm(maj7)
The big boom
Bridge
A5 A riff
Only move by night, only move alone
E riff
Keep the fires low and stay off the phone
D
Keep on moving or stay right where you are
F#m F#m(maj7)
What's the difference, it's only a matter of time
F#m7 B F#m F#m(maj7)
And one by one the cities fall
F#m7 B
Soon there won't be anything at all
Bm E
Gone for good
D A
And now I'm waiting for the big boom
E F#m
It knows where I'm gonna be
D A
The big boom
E
I'm always getting closer to
D A
The big boom
E F#m
And it will catch up to me
Dmaj7 Dm(maj7)
The big boom
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This was tabbed by "yngve" on jonathancoulton.com and not by me
A5 x022xx
F#m(maj7) 243222
Dmaj7 xx0222
Dm(maj7) xx0221
Riffs:
A riff:
--------|
--------|
22-22-2-|
22-22-2-|
00-02-3-|
--------| repeat
E riff:
--------|
--------|
--------|
22-22-2-|
22-22-2-|
00-02-3-| repeat
Bridge:
--------|--------|--------|--------|
--------|--------|--------|--------|
2--2--2-|0--0--0-|2--2--2-|2--2--2-|
2--2--2-|2--2--2-|4--4--4-|3--3--3-|
00000000|00000000|00000000|00000000
--------|--------|--------|-------- x2
--------|--------|--------|--------|
--------|0--0--0-|1--1--1-|3--3--3-|
2--2--2-|0--0--0-|2--2--2-|2--2--2-|
2--2--2-|2--2--2-|4--4--4-|3--3--3-|
00000000|00000000|00000000|00000000
--------|--------|--------|--------
--------|
5--5--5-|
2--2--2-|
2--2--2-|
0000000-
--------
A5 A riff
It was 3 AM when I heard the sound
E riff
Stuck my head outside and I looked around
D
In the echo the car alarms ringing
F#m F#m(maj7)
The sense that something terrible had happened again
F#m7 B F#m F#m(maj7)
Cut the lights and put the TV on
F#m7 B
And they said that Michigan was gone
Bm E
Gone for good
D A
And now I'm waiting for the big boom
E F#m
It knows where I'm gonna be
D A
The big boom
E
I'm always getting closer to
D A
The big boom
E F#m
And it will catch up to me
Dmaj7 Dm(maj7)
The big boom
A riff
There are few safe places left today
E riff
Every night they come and take one away
D
Early on we believed we had a chance
F#m F#m(maj7)
Now there's no one who thinks that way anymore
F#m7 B F#m F#m(maj7)
And the infrastructure's coming down
F#m7 B
And the government went underground
Bm E
Gone for good
D A
And now I'm waiting for the big boom
E F#m
It knows where I'm gonna be
D A
The big boom
E
I'm always getting closer to
D A
The big boom
E F#m
And it will catch up to me
Dmaj7 Dm(maj7)
The big boom
Bridge
A5 A riff
Only move by night, only move alone
E riff
Keep the fires low and stay off the phone
D
Keep on moving or stay right where you are
F#m F#m(maj7)
What's the difference, it's only a matter of time
F#m7 B F#m F#m(maj7)
And one by one the cities fall
F#m7 B
Soon there won't be anything at all
Bm E
Gone for good
D A
And now I'm waiting for the big boom
E F#m
It knows where I'm gonna be
D A
The big boom
E
I'm always getting closer to
D A
The big boom
E F#m
And it will catch up to me
Dmaj7 Dm(maj7)
The big boom
__________________________________________________________________
This was tabbed by "yngve" on jonathancoulton.com and not by me
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