They Might Be Giants Tabs:
- Everything Right Is Wrong Again
- Number Three
- Don't Let's Start
- Hide Away Folk Family »
- 32 Footsteps
- Rabid Child
- Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes
- She's An Angel
- Youth Culture Killed My Dog
- Absolutely Bill's Mood
- I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
- Alienation's For The Rich
- The Day
- Rhythm Section Want Ad
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Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song: Hide Away Folk Family
Album: They Might Be Giants
Intro Chords:
( G D G D G A Bm D G E D A D G )
Chorus:
D Daug5 Bm E
Hide away folk family or else
D A D G
someone's gonna get ya (someones gonna get ya) someone's gonna get ya
D Daug5 Bm E D Dsus5 Bm E
Hide away folk family better hide away better hide away
Verse 1:
D G D G
Tippy toe to the front door mother 'cause there's a
D G A
guy with a long long fuse
Bm D G E
And the one thing you can't hide is all the fear you feel inside
D A D G
as the fuse is spelling out these words
Chorus:
Hide away folk family
Or else someones gonna get ya
(Someones gonna get ya)
Someones gonna get ya
Hide away folk family
Better hide away
Better hide away
Verse 2:
Tippy toe to the flat-bed Father
Because they're pouring out the gasoline
And sadly the cross-eyed bears are put to sleep behind the stairs
And the shoes are laced with irony
Chorus:
Hide away folk family
Or else someones gonna get ya
(Someones gonna get ya)
Someones gonna get ya
Hide away folk family
Better hide away
Better hide away
Bridge:
D C D C Bb D C
Hello, this is Leslie Down with the daily home astrology report
D C Bb D C D C Bb
Taurus: contemplate domestic turmoil Aquarius: abandon hope for
D C D C Bb
future plans
Chorus:
Hide away folk family
Or else someones gonna get ya
(Someones gonna get ya)
Someones gonna get ya
Hide away folk family
Better hide away
Better hide away
( Continue chorus weirder and weirder till end )
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Joan Average |
#1 by Joan Rius at Oct 2, 1976 at 7:26 AM EST |
| i read in a review somewhere that it is about a family being burnt alive. I always got the impression that it was kinda like a frankenstien story, this folk family is seen as strange to others and they are scared of them, and so destroy them. Hide away folk family is kind of like a warning for them to keep hidden because the world won't accept them. It also can kinda reflect the way documentary film makers sometimes go and live with bizare familys and to us there ways are wierd and scary and so we judge them. I think this is basicly saying that folk familys should keep hidden so they are not percecuted. No idea about the bear thing, but with the hymn referance i'm sure whatever it means is very clever! | |
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Peter Wanna Be |
#2 by Peter Lambden at May 24, 1986 at 11:11 AM EST |
| destroyalltacos! Thanks so much for the insight on the hymn ref! | |
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♥WeEzY Average |
#3 by ♥WeEzY♥ at Jan 3, 1989 at 12:51 PM EST |
| This is a very close-to-the-bone indictment of the borderline psychotic persecution complex that attends much of the "family"-oriented Fundamentalist Christian culture in the U.S. I know, because I lived with a certain amount of this: My ex is a fundie, who was plugged in with this cadre; some in this group are distinctly beyond "borderline." All the essential ingredients are here: The ideal of the "folk family"; a sad, if not tragic surrogate for genuine family love and affection. The reference to gasoline highlights the fact that much of what Americans tout as our values are really a rank materialism, internalized to the point where it becomes invisible, except as a vague (and not entirely unreasonable) fear that it could run down the drain any second. The bear is, of course, communism. The reference to irony points up the fact that this ilk won't cop to irony, and often resents it. The "daily home astrology report" is a pretty clever attempt to summon up an idealized example of the "new age"-leaning mainstream media dreaded by the xenophobes in the "Christian family" movement. To hear them, you'd think if the committed the unpardonable sin of turning the dial away from "the straight and narrow," they'd tune in Leslie Down. This song kept me pretty well grounded while I was being exposed to this stuff; Dobson and suchlike. Touche, Johns! | |
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jo_silverhawk Average |
#4 by jo_silverhawk at May 14, 1989 at 2:02 PM EST |
| There might be something to the fundementalist christian thing; there definitely is some kind of group paranoia going on. I don't think the bear is supposed to be communism though, because "sadly the crosseyed bear" is a play on the hymn "gladly the cross I'd bear". Also, I think "they're pouring out our gasoline" means they poured the gasoline all around the house and are going to light a match to set it on fire. | |
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Julian Average |
#5 by Julian . at Jul 28, 2001 at 8:33 AM EST |
| This is a song about a family hiding from the nazis in WWII. It is part of the WWII-song arc. | |
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