I Dont Like Mondays Chords

by The Boomtown Rats
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Chords

C
Em
F
G
Am

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All right, I have tried to find out the chords to I Don't Like Mondays
by the Boomtown Rats. I do not claim these are the right ones, but they
come pretty close. The only thing is that in the original song, it seems
that all is tuned 3/4 notes lower, but I've searched for not-too-difficult-to-play chords.
 
 
I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS - THE BOOMTOWN RATS
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[Verse 1]
 
    C              Em
The silicon chip inside her head
     F               G
Gets switched to overload
    C                    Em
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
            F                 G
She's gonna make them stay at home,
    Am                 G
And daddy doesn't understand it,
          C                    F
He always said she was good as gold,
           F
And he can see no reasons
          F
Cos there are no reasons
     F                        G
What reason do you need to be shown
 
 
[Hook]
 
        C                Em
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        F                G
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        C                Em
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        F                    G
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oo - oo - oot
N.C.            C
The whole day down.
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
    C                Em
The Telex machine is kept so clean
       F                  G
And it types to a waiting world,
    C
And Mother feels so shocked
         Em
Father's world is rocked,
          F
And their thoughts turn to
      G
Their own little girl.
Am                       G
Sweet sixteen ain't that peachy keen,
       C                  F
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
         F
They can see no reasons
          F
Cos there are no reasons
     F              G
What reasons do you need
 
 
[Hook]
 
        C                Em
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
        F                G
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
        C                Em
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
        F                    G
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oo - oo - oot
N.C.          Am                             F
The whole day down, down, down, shoot it all down...
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
            C                        Em
And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
    F                      G
She wants to play with her toys a while,
    C                      Em
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
        F               G
And the lesson today is how to die.
             Am
And then the bullhorn crackles,
        G
And the captain tackles,
         C                         F
With the problems and the hows and whys
           F
And he can see no reasons
          F
Cos there are no reasons
     F                     G
what reason do you need to die
 
 
[Hook]
 
        C                Em
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
        F                G
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
        C                Em
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
        F                    G
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oo - oo - oot
N.C.          C
The whole day down.
 
 
 
Since the original is played on piano, chances are that you won't like
it as much on guitar, but I think it sounds reasonably well.
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