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!
Original transcription by Yngve, revised by Suuuupaadave.
Found at: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/index.php/Over_There/Tabs
C x32010
G 320003
F/C x33211
Dm7 xx0211
G7 320001
E7sus4 020200
E7 020100
Am x02210
C7 x32310
E 022100
Fm/C x33111 or if you prefer Dm7b5 xx0111
Ab 466544
Bb 688766
Csus4 x33010
G/B x2003x
Am7 x02010
Am7/G 3x2010
D7/F# 2x0212
D7sus4/F# 2x0213
C/G 3x2010
G7(2) 3x303x
[Intro]
e|---00----00-----00--------00---------|
B|---11----11-----11--------11------0--|
G|---00----00-0h2-22--------00------0--|
D|-----0h2-----------0h2-0----0h2-0-0--|
A|-3-----------------------3--------2--|
E|----------------------------------3--|
[Bridge Walkdown]
C G/B Am7 Am7/G D7/F# G C/G G7(2)
e|-0-----0----------2---2h3-3p2----------|
B|-1--3--1----1-----1---1-1-1---0-1---3--|
G|-0--0--0----0-----2---2-2-2---0-0---0--|
D|-2--0--2----2-----0---0-0-0---0-2---3--|
A|-3--2--0----x-----x---x-x-x------------|
E|------------3-----2---2-2-2---3-3---3--|
[Outro]
e|---00----00-----00--------00------0--|
B|---11----11-----11--------11------3--|
G|---00----00-0h2-22--------00------0--|
D|-----0h2-----------0h2-0----0h2-0-2--|
A|-3-----------------------3--------3--|
E|-------------------------------------|
[Verse 1]
C G
Take a boat, take a plane
F/C C
Go to London, go to Spain
Dm7 G7 C
Take a train from Amsterdam to Monaco
C G
Take a loved one if you think
E7sus4 E7 Am
They enjoy things that stink
Dm7 G7 C (re intro)
Cause everything is different over there
[Verse 2]
C G
When you’re in Belgium you can eat
F/C C
A lot of mayonnaise with your frites
Dm7 G7 C G
And no one will say, hey, that’s too much mayonnaise
C G
Enjoy a German sausage hall
E7sus4 E7 Am
Eat an Italian meatball
Dm7 G7
But I hope you don’t want a Twinkie
Dm7 G7 C C7
Because they don’t have Hostess Twinkies over there
[Chorus]
F/C E
Over there you’ll never feel at ease
Am C7
Cause there’s not much soap and there’s too much cheese
F/C G C C7
And everyone wears clogs and rides on trains
F/C E
Over there they’ll make you regret that you
Am C7
Ever saved their asses in World War II
F/C Fm/C C
Don’t make me go over there
[Bridge]
(See bridge walkdown figure for the last two lines of the bridge)
Ab Bb C Csus4 C
Cause I enjoy my freedom here
Ab Bb C Csus4 C
And I enjoy light-colored beer
Ab Bb
I like to take showers
C G/B Am7 Am7/G D7/F# D7sus4/F# D7/F#
And I like to brush my teeth every day
G C/G G7(2)
Twice a day
[Verse 3]
C G
They say that there’s a place in France
F/C C
Where the naked ladies dance
Dm7 G7 C G
You can find it if you ask around
C G
And there’s a hole there in the wall
E7sus4 E7 Am
Where the men can see it all
Dm7 G7
But the men don’t care
Dm7 G7
Because they chew their underwear
Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7
And the underwear they chew costs a dollar ninety-two
Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7
And the men go around with their ding dongs hanging down
[Chorus]
F/C E
Over there you’ll never feel at ease
Am C7
Cause there’s not much soap and there’s too much cheese
F/C G C C7
And everyone wears clogs and rides on trains
F/C E
Over there they’ll make you regret that you
Am C7
Ever saved their asses in World War II
F/C Fm/C C G/B Am
Don’t make me go over there
F/C Fm/C C G/B Am
No, don’t make me go over there
F/C Fm/C C
Don’t make me go over there
[Outro]
Cadd9
Found at: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/index.php/Over_There/Tabs
C x32010
G 320003
F/C x33211
Dm7 xx0211
G7 320001
E7sus4 020200
E7 020100
Am x02210
C7 x32310
E 022100
Fm/C x33111 or if you prefer Dm7b5 xx0111
Ab 466544
Bb 688766
Csus4 x33010
G/B x2003x
Am7 x02010
Am7/G 3x2010
D7/F# 2x0212
D7sus4/F# 2x0213
C/G 3x2010
G7(2) 3x303x
[Intro]
e|---00----00-----00--------00---------|
B|---11----11-----11--------11------0--|
G|---00----00-0h2-22--------00------0--|
D|-----0h2-----------0h2-0----0h2-0-0--|
A|-3-----------------------3--------2--|
E|----------------------------------3--|
[Bridge Walkdown]
C G/B Am7 Am7/G D7/F# G C/G G7(2)
e|-0-----0----------2---2h3-3p2----------|
B|-1--3--1----1-----1---1-1-1---0-1---3--|
G|-0--0--0----0-----2---2-2-2---0-0---0--|
D|-2--0--2----2-----0---0-0-0---0-2---3--|
A|-3--2--0----x-----x---x-x-x------------|
E|------------3-----2---2-2-2---3-3---3--|
[Outro]
e|---00----00-----00--------00------0--|
B|---11----11-----11--------11------3--|
G|---00----00-0h2-22--------00------0--|
D|-----0h2-----------0h2-0----0h2-0-2--|
A|-3-----------------------3--------3--|
E|-------------------------------------|
[Verse 1]
C G
Take a boat, take a plane
F/C C
Go to London, go to Spain
Dm7 G7 C
Take a train from Amsterdam to Monaco
C G
Take a loved one if you think
E7sus4 E7 Am
They enjoy things that stink
Dm7 G7 C (re intro)
Cause everything is different over there
[Verse 2]
C G
When you’re in Belgium you can eat
F/C C
A lot of mayonnaise with your frites
Dm7 G7 C G
And no one will say, hey, that’s too much mayonnaise
C G
Enjoy a German sausage hall
E7sus4 E7 Am
Eat an Italian meatball
Dm7 G7
But I hope you don’t want a Twinkie
Dm7 G7 C C7
Because they don’t have Hostess Twinkies over there
[Chorus]
F/C E
Over there you’ll never feel at ease
Am C7
Cause there’s not much soap and there’s too much cheese
F/C G C C7
And everyone wears clogs and rides on trains
F/C E
Over there they’ll make you regret that you
Am C7
Ever saved their asses in World War II
F/C Fm/C C
Don’t make me go over there
[Bridge]
(See bridge walkdown figure for the last two lines of the bridge)
Ab Bb C Csus4 C
Cause I enjoy my freedom here
Ab Bb C Csus4 C
And I enjoy light-colored beer
Ab Bb
I like to take showers
C G/B Am7 Am7/G D7/F# D7sus4/F# D7/F#
And I like to brush my teeth every day
G C/G G7(2)
Twice a day
[Verse 3]
C G
They say that there’s a place in France
F/C C
Where the naked ladies dance
Dm7 G7 C G
You can find it if you ask around
C G
And there’s a hole there in the wall
E7sus4 E7 Am
Where the men can see it all
Dm7 G7
But the men don’t care
Dm7 G7
Because they chew their underwear
Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7
And the underwear they chew costs a dollar ninety-two
Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7
And the men go around with their ding dongs hanging down
[Chorus]
F/C E
Over there you’ll never feel at ease
Am C7
Cause there’s not much soap and there’s too much cheese
F/C G C C7
And everyone wears clogs and rides on trains
F/C E
Over there they’ll make you regret that you
Am C7
Ever saved their asses in World War II
F/C Fm/C C G/B Am
Don’t make me go over there
F/C Fm/C C G/B Am
No, don’t make me go over there
F/C Fm/C C
Don’t make me go over there
[Outro]
Cadd9
Jonathan Richman
Joni Mitchell
Jonny Craig
Jonny Diaz
Jonny Marks
Jordin Sparks
Jorge Ben
Jorge Cafrune
Jorge Drexler
Jorge E Mateus