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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Source: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/The_Town_Crotch/Tabs
Original Chords: M_pony
Drop D, Capo 3
D G
The seniors threw a party down the end of Dutton Road
D G
It was almost cold enough to snow
Em Bm
None of us could drive then so we had to get a ride
C G A7
In the back of someone's G-TO
D G
She was in the keg line with a yellow plastic cup
D G
It was like I'd never seen a girl before
Em Bm
Puffy leather jacket and a healthy head of hair
C G A7
With the hair she was six foot four
Bb Bdim(x2313x) C C#dim(xx2323)
I recognized.. her face.. right away
[chorus]
D
She was the town crotch
G
She was good to go anytime
D
She was the town crotch
G
But I loved her like she was mine
A G
There's a lot of things I don't remember now
G/C G D
But I remember the town crotch
G/C G D
I remember the town crotch
D G
I had a pint of So Co in the pocket of my coat
D G
You can hardly taste the alcohol
Em Bm
Watched her from a distance but I never said a word
C G A7
I was young and I felt so small
Bb Bdim C C#dim
I was no one then, who was I?
[repeat chorus]
G/C G D
We stood around and drank a lot and leaned against the cars
G/C G D
Tried to beat the Winter, made it just under the wire
G/C G D
We got drunk and loud under a thousand million stars
G/C G A7
Someone played Steve Miller, someone set some stuff on fire
D G
The cops came by to bust us so we left the beer and ran
D G
My head hurt and I couldn't find my ride
Em Bm
She pulled up in a Gremlin and she rolled the window down
C G A7
She said "Hey kid, get inside".
Bb Bdim C C#dim
Then she asked my name and drove me home
D
She was the town crotch
G
She was good to go anytime
D
She was the town crotch
G
But I loved her like she was mine
A G
There's a lot of things I don't remember now
G/C G D
But I remember the town crotch
G/C G D
I remember the town crotch
G/C G D
I remember the town crotch
G/C(x32033) G D
Original Chords: M_pony
Drop D, Capo 3
D G
The seniors threw a party down the end of Dutton Road
D G
It was almost cold enough to snow
Em Bm
None of us could drive then so we had to get a ride
C G A7
In the back of someone's G-TO
D G
She was in the keg line with a yellow plastic cup
D G
It was like I'd never seen a girl before
Em Bm
Puffy leather jacket and a healthy head of hair
C G A7
With the hair she was six foot four
Bb Bdim(x2313x) C C#dim(xx2323)
I recognized.. her face.. right away
[chorus]
D
She was the town crotch
G
She was good to go anytime
D
She was the town crotch
G
But I loved her like she was mine
A G
There's a lot of things I don't remember now
G/C G D
But I remember the town crotch
G/C G D
I remember the town crotch
D G
I had a pint of So Co in the pocket of my coat
D G
You can hardly taste the alcohol
Em Bm
Watched her from a distance but I never said a word
C G A7
I was young and I felt so small
Bb Bdim C C#dim
I was no one then, who was I?
[repeat chorus]
G/C G D
We stood around and drank a lot and leaned against the cars
G/C G D
Tried to beat the Winter, made it just under the wire
G/C G D
We got drunk and loud under a thousand million stars
G/C G A7
Someone played Steve Miller, someone set some stuff on fire
D G
The cops came by to bust us so we left the beer and ran
D G
My head hurt and I couldn't find my ride
Em Bm
She pulled up in a Gremlin and she rolled the window down
C G A7
She said "Hey kid, get inside".
Bb Bdim C C#dim
Then she asked my name and drove me home
D
She was the town crotch
G
She was good to go anytime
D
She was the town crotch
G
But I loved her like she was mine
A G
There's a lot of things I don't remember now
G/C G D
But I remember the town crotch
G/C G D
I remember the town crotch
G/C G D
I remember the town crotch
G/C(x32033) G D
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