Dead Kennedys – Mtv Get Off The Air (Guitar)

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Chords

Intro F# B C# (2x bass only)
F#                 B      C#
Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair

      F#
Flame up the herb

     B        C# 
Woof down the beer  (2x and continues on background)
(click!)
F#                 B  C#
Hi! I'm your video DJ

  F#                   B             C#
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes

F#             B        C#                  F#   B  C#
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go

   F#        B        C#
My job is to help destroy

       F#            B   C#
What's left of your imagination

   F#          B       C#
By feeding you endless doses

   F#                    B       C#
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage

   F#           B    C#
So don't create Be sedate

     F#                    B              C#
Be a vegetable at home And thwack on that dial

   F#                   B          C#
If we have our way even you will believe  (Fun fun fun... ends)

F#
This is the future of rock and roll
(M.T.V GET OFF THE AIR!)
    F#              B A
How far will you go

    F#                 B A
How low will you stoop

   B               A               B            A
To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill

       F#                             B A
You've turned rock and roll rebellion

     F#                 B A
Into Pat Boone sedation

B           A              B           D
Making sure nothing's left of the imagination

   C#     B
   M.T.V. Get off the

   C#     B
   M.T.V. Get off the

   C#     B           F#
   M.T.V. Get off the air  (2x)

          E           F#
          Get off the air

F#                     B A F#                   B A
See the latest rejects     from the muppet show

B                        A
Wag their tits and their dicks

        B            A
As they lip-synch on screen

        F#
There's something I don't like

 B    A F#                     B A
About a band who always smiles

  B         A
Another tax write-off

         B                   D
For some schmuck who doesn't care
M.T.V. Get off the air... Get off the air Get off the air
                     F# F E D# C#
         Get off the air 
(bass break - following line twice: 1st time with bass only, 2nd time with guitar playing chords above) C# B C# B F# E F# E
e|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
B|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
G|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
D|--------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|2\1-----|4-4-6-4-|2\1-----| 
A|4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|----4-2-|
E|----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
(and this once)
  C#       B        C#       B        F#       E        C#
e|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
B|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
G|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
D|--------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|2\1-----|4-------|--------| 
A|4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|--------|
E|----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
C#m B A G# (2x trumpet or something)
    C#    B
And so it was

    C#                B
Our beloved corporate gods

F#             E          F#    E
Claimed they created rock video

C#             B              C#       B
Allowing it to sink as low in one year

   F#         E         C#
As commercial TV has in 25

C#m                      B
"It's the new frontier," they say

     A                       G#
It's wide open, anything can happen

    C#m
But you've got a lot of nerve

            B
To call yourself a pioneer

                A
When you're too god-damn conservative

        G#
To take real chances.

C#        B 
Tin-eared   

      C#    B         F#
Graph-paper brained accountants

E                F#   E
Instead of music fans

C#           B              C#               B
Call all the shots at giant record companies now

    F#              E         C#
The lowest common denominator rules

C#m
Forget honesty

B
Forget creativity

    A
The dumbest buy the mostest

           G#
That's the name of the game

    C#m
But sales are slumping

    B
And no one will say why

A                                     G#
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?

C#       B           F#
M.T.V. - Get off the air!

F#
NOW!