Poster Child Chords

by Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: Bb
Capo: no capo
Author danieladriano2 [pro] 34,419. Last edit on Mar 10, 2022
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Chords

Bb9
B9
G7+9
C7+9
D7+9
G
C7
Bb
F
Gm
C
D7

Strumming

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[Intro]
| Bb9  | B9   Bb9  |
 
 
[Verse 1]
 G7+9
Melle Mel and Richard Hell were dancing at the Taco Bell
      C7+9
When someone heard a rebel yell, I think it was an infidel
G7+9
Adam Ant and Robert Plant were center of a sycophant
C7+9
Used to buy Ulysses Grant to record at the Record Plant
   G7+9
Islamabad is on the nod, Havana at the riot squad
    C7+9
And if you want to be a Mod, you'll have to meet me at the quad
 
 
[Refrain]
G7+9
 You got the best of my loco
C7+9
 I'll take the rest of your showboat
G7+9
 You got the best of my Yoko
C7+9
 I'll take the rest of your lono
 
 
[Verse 2]
 G7+9
Parliamеnt's Atomic Dog that hats were filling up a fog
    C7+9
We talk about thе life and death of everything in analog
     G7+9
The seventies were such a win, singing the Led Zeppelin
 C7+9
Lizzy lookin' mighty thin, the Thompson's had another twin
    G7+9
I thought I won the lottery, the numbers never thought of me
   D7+9
Ramones had a lobotomy, so spin me like a pottery
 
 
[Chorus]
G               C7
I will be your poster child
              G                 C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G             C7               G
And then I will be your poster child tonight, ow
 D7+9
La-da-da-da, bum-bum-budum
 
 
[Verse 3]
   G7+9
A funky piece, the Sandinista, me and minor Mona Lisa
 C7+9
Judas Priest has whipped the beast, the mother love was named Theresa
 G7+9
Bubble gum, I come bazooka, dirty dandy nana-looka
  C7+9
Smoke banana in your hookah, now I know the band is ruca
 G7+9
Bernie Mac and Caddyshack were dusty as bric-a-brac
    C7+9
And if you ask me for the time, I'll tell you that the future's back
 
 
[Refrain]
G7+9
 You got the best of my loco
C7+9
 I'll take the rest of your showboat
G7+9
 You got the best of my Yoko
C7+9
 I'll take the rest of your lono
 
 
[Verse 4]
       G7+9
Steve Miller and Duran Duran, the Joker dancing in the sand
     C7+9
Van Morrison - the Astral man - the festival of hurricanes
  G7+9
Speak of Chico and the Man, the silence of a certain lamb
C7+9
MC5 kick out the jam, a poncho full of contraband
 G7+9
Dairy Queen was on the scene on every preteen magazine
     D7+9
The Motörhead and mystic queen, I must've needed Valvoline
 
 
[Chorus]
G               C7
I will be your poster child
              G                 C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G             C7               G
And then I will be your poster child tonight
 D7+9
La-da-da-da, bum-bum-budum
 
 
[Bridge]
   Bb    F          Gm
You     got me on this
      C                   D7    C7   D7
But then I can't get off
                      C7    D7
With no one else but you
   Bb   F          Gm
You    turn me on too
 C                         D7    C7   D7
Well, then I can't get up, ooh
                     C7   D7
For no one else but you
 
 
[Verse 5]
       G7+9
Creem magazine, A Love Supreme, the ballad of a Billie Jean
     C7+9
And now we know the Status Quo, but God would never save the Queen
 G7+9
Dave Mushegain, Copenhagen, copper goose of Ronald Reagan
 C7+9
Dollar savers, Flavor Flav, the cosmic moves are power saving
     G7+9
And my fist double kissed a listed number purple
  C7+9
Chubby Checker do the twist, and everyone's a narcissist
 
 
[Refrain]
G7+9
 You got the best of my loco
C7+9
 I'll take the rest of your showboat
G7+9
 You got the best of my Yoko
C7+9
 I'll take the rest of your lono
 
 
[Verse 6]
     G7+9
The waterbed was takin' meds, a beaver with the house of red
   C7+9
A fatty for the natty dread, a pocket full of talking heads
  G7+9
M.I.A.'s making paper planes, addiction to the days of Janes
     C7+9
My stuff is made of purple rain
     C7+9
Ten fingers in the lion's mane
 G7+9
Giant squid, Karate Kid, Sid Vicious and the Katie-did
      D7+9
The planet that we must forbid, the English speakers in Madrid
 
 
[Chorus]
G               C7
I will be your poster child
              G                 C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G             C7               G      D7+9
And then I will be your poster child tonight
G               C7
I will be your poster child
              G                 C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G             C7               G      D7+9
And then I will be your poster child tonight
 
 
 
[Ending]
| Bb   F  | Gm    C  | D7    C7   D7  | C7   D7  | 4x
 
| G  |
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