Where Is My Mind Ukulele Chords

Where is my Mind?
Trampled by Turtles
as made famous by:
The Pixies
 
 
the song starts off with:  E  C#m  Ab  A (play 4 times)
 
on the second time is this lick
count 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &....   B string is on 4th notes, E string is on &'s
(actually the banjo but just for the sake of thouroughness):
---4---4---4---4---4---4---4--5-4-2-0---|
-5---5---5---5---4---4---5--------------|
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[Verse]
             E                        C#m                  Ab      A
   With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
E      C#m                       Ab       A
   Try this trick and spin it, yeah
E                  C#m
   Your head will collapse
            Ab
But there's nothing in it 
    A
you ask yourself
 
 
[Chorus]
E            C#m
 Where is my mind?
Ab           A
 Where is my mind?  
       E         C#m     Ab    A
 Whe---ere is my mind?
 
E  C#m  Ab  A
                  (play the C#m and B with 8th's down strums to crescendo)
 E   Ab         A             Am (let fade)   C#m   B
 Way out in the water, see it swimming.
 
the banjo plays this over every line in the verses
---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4--5-4-2-0-|
-5---5---5---5---4---4---4---4---5---5---5---4---4---5------------|
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[Verse]
E                C#m               Ab   A
  I was swimmin' in the Carribean
E                C#m             Ab     A
  Animals were hiding behind the rock
E                 C#m
  Except a little fish
           Ab
  But they told me, he swears
           A
  Tryin ta talk to me,  coy koi...  *<--haha fish pun...*
 
 
[Chorus]
E            C#m
 Where is my mind?
Ab           A
 Where is my mind?  
       E         C#m     Ab    A
 Whe---ere is my mind?
 
E  C#m  Ab  A
                  (play the C#m and B with 8th's down strums to crescendo)
 E   Ab         A              Am (let fade)   C#m   B
 Way out in the water, see it swimming
 
this banjo lick is played over the C#m, B crescendo:
 
|-------------------------------| |-------------------------| the last five
|----------------7-9-7--10/12---| |--12-12-10-10-9-9-7-7-5--| is the first 5
|-------------------------------| |-------------------------| of the verse's
|-5-7-5--7/9--------------------| |-------------------------| lick
|-------------------------------| |-------------------------|
|-------------------------------| |-------------------------|
just listen to the song to hear where the two parts are at.
 
 
[Verse]
             E                        C#m                  Ab      A
   With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
E      C#m                       Ab       A
   Try this trick and spin it, yeah
E                  C#m
   Your head will collapse
            Ab
But there's nothing in it 
    A
you ask yourself
 
 
[Chorus]
E            C#m
 Where is my mind?
Ab           A
 Where is my mind?  
       E         C#m     Ab    A
 Whe---ere is my mind?
 
E  C#m  Ab  A
                  (play the C#m and B with 8th's down strums to crescendo)
 E   Ab         A             Am (let fade)   C#m   B
 Way out in the water, see it swimming.
 
 
post any more banjo licks you guys can decipher from the song. I only put the main
ones. Comment and Correct! did this help? star it!
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