Red Hot Chili Peppers – Poster Child (Guitar)

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Chords

[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 |