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First Week Last Week Carefree Ukulele

(Version #1)
Talking Heads
FIRST WEEK, LAST WEEK..CAREFREE
(1977) D. Byrne

Standard Tuning.

(VERSE 1)
D7              Am
Can we run that again
D7              Am
Is that a woman's voice I hear?
C                       Am                    C
I said, "Let's wait and see. I'll see for myself"
C                    Am
That's a phrase I repeat to myself
C                   Am
Made a reference to me and
Am
that's myself too.

(PRE-CHORUS)
G             E                     G
What progress I have made the first week
F#    G
First Week
F#    G
First Week
F#    G
First Week

(VERSE 2)
D7               Am
Every sentence I use
D7                       Am
Refer to women and their names
C                            Am
I heard the voice first last week
Am
I heard it myself
C                   Am
Made a reference to me
Am
That's myself
C                  Am
This report's incomplete
Am
I see for myself

(PRE-CHORUS)
G                 E                      G
Every appointment has been moved to last week
F#   G
Last Week
F#   G
Last Week
F#   G
Last Week

(CHORUS)

C ---- F (x2)

A# ---- C
A# -- A -- G

(VERSE 3)
C                            Am
I heard the voice first last week
Am
I heard it myself
C                   Am
Made a reference to me
Am
And that's myself
C                    Am
This report's incomplete
Am
I see for myself

(PRE-CHORUS)
G                 E                      G
Every appointment has been moved to last week
F#   G
Last Week
F#   G
Last Week
F#   G
Last Week

(CHORUS)

C ---- F (x2)

A# ---- C
A# -- A -- G

(CHORUS RIFF)
E---------------------------------------------||
B---------------------------------------------||
G---------------------2h3-2h3-2---2h3-2h3-2---||
D----2-5-2---2-5-2-3------------3-----------3-||
A--3-------3----------------------------------||
E---------------------------------------------|| (x2)

E---------------------------------------------||
B---------------------------------------------||
G---------------------------------------------||
D----0-3---0-3---2-5---2-5---0-3---0-3--------||
A--1-----1-----3-----3-----1-----1------5--3--||
E---------------------------------------------|| (x1)




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