THE DEAD MILKMEN
When I Get To Heaven

from Stoney's Extra Stout (Pig)

Tabbed by: Ben Gladdle (moose9377@hotmail.com)


Once again, just chords, but that really is pretty much it
anyway for this one. There's a bit of fingerpicking during
all the "Shaggs" bits, but you can figure that out, or just
make something up.


Lyrics:
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Verse:
F          B            G             C
If I go to Heaven it'll probably be a slum
And all the pretty angels just might be packing guns
And if I see St. Peter will he hit me up for cash
Will I find the road to Jesus or just lose him in the trash

Shaggs-bit:
A
The Shaggs were right
C
You're never going to please anybody
A                   C
Not in this world

verse:
If I go to Hell I might find it very dull
Like an Amway convention or an endless shopping mall
When all the innocent demons want to poke me with a fork
Or just put me in a taxi and send me to New York

Shaggs-bit:
A                          C
Scientists proved it years ago
                     A                        C      G#
The Shaggs were much better than the Beatles

C#                B
Maybe I'll return as an iguana
    F#                    A                          G#
And lie upon a beach down in the Bahamas


Shaggs-bit:
Although ignored in their day
The Shaggs are now recognised as the geniuses they were

A                      E
I just wanna know what happens when you die
       D                      G
Do you walk down in a hole or float up to the sky
      D                      G
Is it just a waste of water, when your widow cries

Shaggs-bit:
Oh don't tell me you've never heard of the Shaggs?

verse:
If the atheists are right then I have no need to worry
For there is no great being whose favour I must curry
And I'll be going nowhere once they lay me in the earth
So why waste a sunday by going to church

Shaggs-bit:
If you really wanted to
You could run out right now and buy a Shaggs record

verse:
If the atheists are wrong then I've got a bill that's due
So should I be a Christian or a Moslem or a Jew
Should I spend all day just praying on my knees
And searching through the world for a deity to please

Shaggs-bit:
A Shaggs record would be a sound investment

       C#                        B
If the atheists are right then I have no need to worry
    F#                            A                    G#
For there is no great being whose favour I must curry

Shaggs-bit:
The fat peoples want what the skinny peoples got
The skinny peoples want what the fat peoples got
But all I've ever wanted is what the Shaggs got
? and my pal, Foot Foot

End on A.


From the Dead Milkmen Guitar Tab Project
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