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Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song: Dirt Bike 
Album: John Henry


Intro:
E  C#m  G#  A
A  B  C#m  F#
E  A  E  B


Verse 1:
E                C#m          G#            A
  Here comes the dirt bike;   beware of the dirt bike
         A                   B             C#m                   F#
'Cause I hear they're coming to our town - they've got plans for everyone
          E                       A
And now I hear they're over their sophomore jinx
           E               B   B7
So you had better check it out
 

Verse 2:
All hail the dirt bike - philosopher dirt bike
Silence as we gathered round; we saw the word and were on our way
Now it's   brainwashing dirt bike,  ground shaking dirt bike
Mind bending dirt bike in control

Bride:  E  C#m  G#  A 

Verse 3:
E             C#m         G#             A
Soul crushing dirt bike - self-propelled dirt bike
          A                 B           C#m                   F#
You see I never thought I'd understand 'til that bike took me by the hand


Outro:
       E    A
Now I ride
E   B
Ride
E    A  G#
Ride

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Caitlin Rhythm Player	#1 by Caitlin Carlisle at Jun 14, 1978 at 7:36 AM EST
	I think most songs have two meanings, a normal, easy to find one and an odd one that you have to think to see. The music fad would be the easy one, and the Third Reich is the difficult.

No Picture Justin Wanna Be	#2 by Justin at Feb 24, 1985 at 4:14 AM EST
	This is yet another WWII song. The "dirt bike" is the Third Reich, and they've got plans for everyone. "Now I ride..." refers either to the ordinary people getting caught up in the mania of nazism, or to people being deported on trains (trains feature prominently as symbols of inescapable evil in TMBG songs).

No Picture Dylan Average	#3 by Dylan Donovan at Mar 20, 1997 at 10:02 AM EST
	To me, it seems like a reference to trends, fads, and the cult-like following that some music acts (including TMBG) sometimes generate. The dirt bike is clearly a band, but one that people almost worship. This was probably my favorite song of the John Henry album. The guitar solo alone makes it worth listening to, and the horn parts are awesome. By the way the "sophmore jinx" is an old rule of thumb in the record industry that most bands' second major-label release tends to suck and/or sell poorly. (This is usually because debts piled up from producing and promoting a band's break-out album often leads to being pressured into rushing a second album out to the stores, and quality suffers for it.) Most rock bands need to have a successful third album (get over their "sophomore jinx") to be considered a long-term success.