Crash Test Dummies

In The Days Of The Caveman

Crash Test Dummies


Tom: B

G#m
When you go on camping trips,
F#                        B        G#m   B
You're stuck right out in nature.
E                F#
Foraging the forests like a primate.
E                   F#                           G#m   B
Using sharpened tools instead of hot plates

     E
Your thumb and forefinger
        F#                            B             G#m   B
supposed to show you're not a wild beast.
     E                  F#
You can hear their noises at night time
     E                  F#                        G#m   B
They don't have to keep a certain bed time.

(refrão)
F#         G#m          E      F#
See in the shapes of my body
E       G#m            E                  F#
leftover parts from the apes and monkeys

     E
Sometimes when I lie awake,
        F#                            B             G#m   B
I hear the rainfall on my     tent fly.
     E                  F#
I think of all the insects that are sleeping,
     E                  F#                        G#m   B
and wonder if the  animals are dreaming.

(refrão)

C                  D
In the days of the caveman,
G             Em
and mammoths, and glaciers.
C                        D
Bugs and trees were your food then
G              Em         C   G
no pajamas, or doctors.

(passagem)

     E
When I finally get to sleep,
        F#                            B             G#m   B
I dream in Technicolor.
     E                  F#
I see creatures come back from the Ice Age
     E                  F#                        G#m   B
Alive and being fed inside a zoo cage.

(refrão)

C                  D
In the days of the caveman,
    G             Em
and mammoths, and glaciers.
C                        D
Bugs and trees were your food then
G              Em         C   G
no pajamas, or doctors.