Article: 2956 of alt.guitar.tab
Path: nevada.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!indigo
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Lines: 39
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


ISTANBUL (Not Constantinople) [by Jimmy Kennedy & Nat Simon]
------------------------------------------------------------
[These are the chords I remember from my piano-playing days;       ]
[actually, They Might Be Giants' recording of this song is in F#m, ]
[not Am, but do _you_ want to play it in F#m?  Not me.  If you     ]
[must be accurate, transpose this to Em and capo up two frets.     ]
[The whole song isn't here, but it should be enough so that you    ]
[can figure out the intro and solo yourself.  Oh, and the groovy   ]
[chord at the end is an Am(#7), which is x02110 or x06554.         ]

[Each chord is one measure, except "X - Y" is one measure TOTAL.   ]

AmAm Piano Chord 
           AmAm Piano Chord 
                       AmAm Piano Chord 
            AmAm Piano Chord 

Istanbul was Constantinople, now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
E7E7 Piano Chord 
                  E7E7 Piano Chord 

Been a long time gone, old Constantinople
AmAm Piano Chord 
   -    DmDm Piano Chord 
         DmDm Piano Chord 
  -   AmAm Piano Chord 

Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
AmAm Piano Chord 
           AmAm Piano Chord 
                      AmAm Piano Chord 
            AmAm Piano Chord 

Every gal in Constantinople lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
E7E7 Piano Chord 
               E7E7 Piano Chord 
                        AmAm Piano Chord 
    -    E7E7 Piano Chord 
    AmAm Piano Chord 

So if you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul
AmAm Piano Chord 
      AmAm Piano Chord 
       AmAm Piano Chord 
             AmAm Piano Chord 

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Bm7-5Bm7-5 Piano Chord 
               E7E7 Piano Chord 
           AmAm Piano Chord 
                   E7E7 Piano Chord 

Why they changed it I can't say, people just liked it better that way
AmAm Piano Chord 
              AmAm Piano Chord 
                     AmAm Piano Chord 
               AmAm Piano Chord 

So take me back to Constantinople, no you can't go back to Constantinople
E7E7 Piano Chord 
            E7E7 Piano Chord 
                      AmAm Piano Chord 
                     AmAm Piano Chord 

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople, why did Constantinople get the works?
E7E7 Piano Chord 
                        AmAm Piano Chord 

That's nobody's business but the Turks

==-=--=---=----=-----=-------=---------=---------=-------=-----=----=---=--=-==
"Your actions will follow you full circle 'round..."
==-=--=---=----=-----=-------=---------=---------=-------=-----=----=---=--=-==