This song is a lot simpler than I make it out to be here... Some notes: often the lyrics change subtly (i.e. waiting there beneath the sand vs. hidden there underneath the land; don't need to squaking gull vs. don't need no gull on the echo part, etc...) God bless tmbg.
The |X |X |X format is supposed to be measures, but I think I may switch unannounced between whole and half-measures in this. You'll get it.
|X/Y means chord X with note Y in the bass.
I probably shouldn't have written everything as sharps, but I don't know anything about music theory.
Some of the voicings here are hard, but they're worth it for that thoughtful Giants effect.
/---------- Low E V
C6 x32033 D/A x00232 Gsus/C x30013 or x30033 or G6sus4/C as x32033 (=C or C6)... whatever ... G/B x20033 G9/A x00033 466544 C#m x46654 F#/C# x4667x G#/D# x66544 698565 8-11-10-787
|G |C6 |G |D/A |G Down at the shore there's a place where there's no one vacationing
|Gsus/C | |G9/A
|G |G |G |D/A |A There's just the sound of the call of the wild overcoming the fear of
|G# the unknown
|C#m |F#/C# |C#m |F#/C# And I've got something to help you understand |E |A |E |G#/D# Something waiting there, beneath the sand
|C#m |F#/C# |C#m |F#/C# |C#m |F#/C# |C#m |F#/C# My metal detector is with me all of the time
|E! |A |C#m |B |E |A |C#m |B I'm the inspector over the mine
|A Look past the volleyball Look past the ball |E Look past the squaking gull Look past the gull
|G#m |A |F#/A# |G#/C Ignore the mountain of discarded folderal
|C#m |F#/C# |C#m |F#/C# Cause I've got something to make you understand
|E |A |E |G#/D# something hidden there underneath the land
|C#m |F#/C# |C#m |F#/C# |C#m |F#/C# |C#m |F#/C# My metal detector is with me all of the time
|E! |A |C#m |B |E |A |C#m |B I'm the inspector over the mine
|E |A |C#m |B |E |A |C#m |B Metal detector watch it shine
|G |C6 |G |D/A |G |Gsus/C |G/B |G9/A Every sea shell has a story to tell if you're listening
|G |C6 |G |D/A |A But underneath every shell there's a story as well if you've heard enough
|D of the sea.
|G |C6 |G |D/A |G Then everything on the top will just sudenly stop sounding interesting
|Gsus/C |G/B |G9/A
|G |Gsus/C |G/B |G9/A So listen now to the sound of the things that are found under (over?) the
