Roadrunner Chords

Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
 
Here is another tab/chord chart for a song from the
Modern Lovers' 1976 album, *The Modern Lovers.*
I would be extremely interested in hearing from
anybody with corrections, comments, etc.
 
Thanks,
michael mccullough
michael@magick.net
 
Roadrunner
This song has two chords that are played the same throughout the
song. It is in the key of A. The main riff for the entire song is:
 
      D D A
e|----2-2-0-|
B|----3-3-2-|
G|----2-2-2-|
D|----0-0-2-|
A|----X-X-0-|
E|----X-X-X-|
 
 
[Intro]
One, two, three, four, five, six
 
 
[Verse]
D D A
      Roadrunner, roadrunner
D D A
      Going faster miles an hour
D D A
      Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop
D D A
      With the radio on
 
D D A
      I'm in love with Massachusetts
D D A
      And the neon when it's cold outside
D D A
      And the highway when it's late at night
D D A
      Got the radio on
 
 
[Chorus]
D      D        A
  I'm like the roadrunner
 
D D A    x2
 
D D A
          Alright
 
 
[Verse]
D D A
      I'm in love with modern moonlight
D D A
      128 when it's dark outside
D D A
      I'm in love with Massachusetts
D D A
      I'm in love with the radio on
 
D D A
      It helps me from being alone late at night
D D A
      It helps me from being lonely late at night
D D A
      I don't feel so bad now in the car
D D A
      Don't feel so alone, got the radio on
 
 
[Chorus]
D  D        A
  Like the roadrunner,   That's right
 
D D A     x3
 
 
[Verse]
D D A
      Said welcome to the spirit of 1956
D D A
      Patient in the bushes next to '57
D D A                                               D
      The highway is your girlfriend as you go by quick
   D       A
Suburban trees, suburban speed
                    D         D
And it smells like heaven. I say
 
A
Roadrunner once, 
N.C.            A A
Roadrunner twice
N.C.                         E
I'm in love with rock & roll   and I'll be out all night
 
 
[Chorus]
 A
Roadrunner,   That's right
 
D  D  A
         (Keep playing the pattern until verse]
 
 
[Verse]
D D A
  Well now
D D A
      Roadrunner, roadrunner
D D A
      Going faster miles an hour
D D A
      Gonna drive to the Stop 'n' Shop
D D A
      With the radio on at night
 
D D A
      And me in love with modern moonlight
D D A
      Me in love with modern rock & roll
D D A
      Modern girls and modern rock & roll
D D A
      Don't feel so alone, got the radio on
 
 
[Chorus]
D  D        A
  Like the roadrunner, Okay, now you sing Modern Lovers
 
D   D  A
Radio  On!  I got the AM
D   D  A
Radio  On!  Got the car, got the AM
D   D  A
Radio  On!  Got the AM sound, got the
D   D  A
Radio  On!  Got the rockin' modern neon sound
D   D  A
Radio  On!  I got the car from Massachusetts, got the
D   D  A
Radio  On! I got the power of Massachusetts when it's late at night
D   D  A
Radio  On! I got the modern sounds of modern Massachusetts
D   D  A
Radio  On! I've got the world, got the turnpike, got the
D   D  A
Radio  On! I've got the, got the power of the AM
D   D  A
Radio  On! Got the, late at night, hit 'em wide, rock & roll late at night
D   D  A
Radio  On! The factories and the auto signs got the 
D   D  A
Radio  On! power of modern sounds
D   D  A
Radio  On!   Aaalright
D   D  A
Radio  On!
D   D   A
 
D   D   A
D   D   A
          Right
D   D   A
          Bye bye!
E  E  E  A
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