Bo Burnham – Ironic (Guitar)

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* = Strum once, then mute. [Intro] D G [Verse 1]
D                   G
My dog's stomach was very upset,

D                       A
So I put him in the car and we went to the vet.

D          G          A*
Gnd on our way to the vet,

             D
I killed a cat.

  G  A      N.C.          D   A  G
Hey, I said isn't that ironic?

D                      G
I adopted a child from overseas,

D                              A
to rescue him from child labor factories,

   D                  G        A       N.C.            D      G   A
And on his very first birthday we went to Build-A-Bear Workshop.
[Chorus]
 D         G      A
Isn't that ironic

                  D        G      D       A
I said isn't that I-R-O-N-I-C-I-N-O-R-I-R-O-N-I-C?
[Bridge]
D               G
A water-park is burnt to the ground,

D                   A
And a tow-truck has broken down.

D                G
I always used to cry when I laughed,

D*                                   D G D A
and then I was raped by a clown.

                  D G A
Isn't that ironic?
[Verse 2]
      D                   G
I was watching Al Gore on CNN,

       D            A
He was talking, and talking, and talking, and then,

D      G        A      N.C.        D       G     A
Out of boredom, my pet polar bear shot himself.

  D                       G
I dated an animal rights activist,

    D                 A
and one day she got really pissed,

        D     G       A*
Because I was eating veal,

                    D    G    A*
That was wrapped in pita bread.

              D G D A
PETA? Fuck it,
[Chorus]
                  D        G      D       A
Isn't that I-R-O-N-I-C-I-N-O-R-I-R-O-N-I-C?

D              A          D               G
I'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch,

    D                   A               D              G*
And I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncle's pull-out couch.

D                  G         A
Isn't that ironic, I-R-O-N-I-C
[Verse 3]
         D               G              D
If every day you play the board-game Risk,

    D              A                    D
You probably never taken a risk in your life.

                 G            D                   A
And Monopoly has far from the stranglehold on the board game market.

  D                    A                    D                      G*
A little kid died from suffocation, when he choked a game piece from Operation.

D                 G    A
And I can't grow a beard.

D              G       A*
That one's not ironic, that one's just sad.
Oh...
D             G               A
Bob Barker got all of my pets pregnant.

D                  A                   D          G*
My grandfather had Alzheimer's and one day we were...