Chords for NATALIE MERCHANT - EAT FOR TWO / INTERVIEW - JON STEWART SHOW 1993

Gone solo, she just recorded a farewell album on MTV's Unplugged with her former band 10,000 Maniacs.
Please welcome Natalie Merchant.
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_ [Fm] _ [Bb] _ Thank you very [Db] _ [Ebm] _
_ [D] _ _ _ much for coming on and doing the show.
I heard the Unplugged album, it's great.
I really liked it.
Now, how did it come about for you and the band?
You don't know?
I don't know at all.
You work at MTV?
I know, they don't tell me anything around here.
Well, [G] we were asked by [N] MTV.
Oh, MTV comes to you and says, you'd like to do an Unplugged?
Yeah.
I think it could be huge, right?
Some of these albums are selling like hotcakes, if I can use that phrase.
Well, we think that it's a really good performance.
Yeah, it's really good.
You guys were just touring in Europe, too, right?
No, we didn't tour in Europe.
Yeah, I was just kidding about that.
I, uh_
_ No, I just did a publicity.
I did a publicity.
Oh, you did a publicity tour there.
Did you like it?
Did you miss me at all?
No, not at all.
All right.
[D] I was just asking.
Did you like Europe?
Have you been there before?
Yes, I've been there.
We also aired it in New Jersey.
Oh, that's nice.
I went to London, also.
_ _ [N] _ Barcelona, Madrid.
Oh, so this was a heavy-duty tour.
You did a lot of stuff.
Well, that's cool.
Well, uh_
I did a lot of television and radio.
Oh, really?
So it was a whole_
They covered you pretty well over there.
Well, we hadn't toured in Europe for a few years, and we didn't go over there for this album, so I felt that it would be a good idea.
Right.
_ I keep confusing the Unplugged record with Our Time in Eden because they're practically overlapping,
because I finished the tour, and then I had three weeks off, and then I started promoting the album.
You need to rest, I think.
This is my last obligation.
This is your last obligation?
Oh.
And [G] tonight I go home.
You make it sound so lovely.
Kind of like taking out the trash before you go to sleep.
Well, you know what?
To fulfill your last obligation, I was wondering if you might play us a number.
I'll consider it.
Very nice.
Thank you very much.
All right.
[E] _ _ _ Well, here's what we have.
Oh, all right.
Oh, take your water.
We'll bring you the water over there on the thing.
We also have juice in the back.
_ Freshly squeezed.
We have juice.
Now I'm standing.
_ Here's what I'd like to say.
_ Performing Eat for Two, it's a track featured on her new MTV Unplugged album with 10,000 Maniacs,
my pleasure to present Natalie Merchant.
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_ _ _ _ Baby blankets [Eb] and baby sheets,
_ [Cm] dream [Db] _ _ _ [Fm] _
_ [Eb] child in my [Cm] head,
is a nightmare [Db] born in a borrowed bedroom.
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] It struck me [Cm] once,
and it [Db] struck me there,
_ my [Ab] folly grows inside [Bb] me. _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ As I visit you, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ for the eggman [Ab] fell down [Eb] off his shelf,
[C] all the good things my [Db] love all they have.
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They struggled [Eb] till the end,
for [Cm] a shelf that [Db] they couldn't [Ab] land on.
_ [Cm] In the endless [Db] sleep,
_ _ _ [Ab] to hush and [Cm] lie in the night [Db] and day,
_ for the [Ab] kitties whining, howling.
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[Fm] I ate, I walked, _ I breathed.
_ _ When _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the boy [C] was a boy,
[Eb] the girl was a girl,
and they [Cm] found each [Db] other,
_ [Fm] strong in [Eb] some respect,
[Cm] but she couldn't stand [Db] for the way he [Ab] begged and gave it,
_ [Cm] _ right [Db] from there.
_ _ _ [Ab] _ Young [Cm] girl should hide,
[Db] and _ risk the game [Ab] by taking the [Bb] _ _ guess.
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Fm] I, I _ _ _ breathed,
I walked, I ate, I breathed,
_ _ [Db] I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ walked [Db] for two,
and some moment I'd be far too well.
I can't breathe. _ _
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_ _ [G] _ _ [Dbm] _ _ Thanks very much to Julia Sweeney,
and of course to Natalie Merchant.
Thank you very much.
We'll see you guys tomorrow.
[Dm] Would you mind, Sweeney?
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guests of the Jon Stewart Show,
stay with [Eb] me, Howard.
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Well, _ [Eb] _ now that all [Bb] you guys have fed your head
with an intelligent, thoughtful [Eb] episode
of the Jon Stewart Show,
get ready, because dessert is on the way.
It's Beavis and Butthead, [Ab] coming up [G] next.
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