The Kinks – Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Guitar)

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by Ray Davies from the album Muswell Hillbillies (1971) by The Kinks In the style of a New Orleans marching jazz band [Intro] D C G [Verse 1]
    G                     C         D         G
I'm too terrified to walk out of my own front door

             C                                D                           G
They're demonstrating outside I think they're gonna start the third world war

     C                    G
I've been to my local headshrinker

        B7             C   C#dim
To help classify my disease

             D7                                         G
He said it's one of the cases of acute schizophrenia he sees
[Verse 2]
         G                       C               D         G
Well the milkman's a spy and the grocer keeps on following me

        C                         D               G
And the woman next door's an undercover for the KGB

        C                     G                 B7             C C#dim
And the man from the Social Security keeps on invading my privacy

         D7                                       G
Oh there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease
[Chorus]
          D                           G
I've got acute schizophrenia paranoia too

D
Schizophrenia, schizophrenia

C           C#dim          D
I've got it, you've got it, we can't lose

 D                  G
Acute schizophrenia blues
[Verse 3]
    G                      C        D    G
I'm lost on the river, the river of no return

  C                       D                              G
I can't make decisions, I don't know which way I'm gonna turn

C           G                    B7                   C  C#dim
Even my old dad lost some of the best friends he ever had

           D7                                    G
Apparently his was a case of acute schizophrenia too
[Chorus]
      D                            G
I got acute schizophrenia paranoia too

D
Schizophrenia, schizophrenia

C            C#dim          D
I've got it, you've got it, we can't lose
[Verse 4]
        G                             C          D       G
They're watching my house and they're tapping my telephone

  C                           D                           G
I can't trust nobody, but I'm much too scared to be on my own

        C             G                B7           C  C#dim
And the income tax collector's got his beady eye on me

         D7                                       G
Oh there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease

         D7                                 G
No there ain't no cure for Schizophrenia disease
D G