The Kinks – Maximum Consumption (Guitar)

          G                  D           G
I'll have some clam chowder, followed by beef steak on rye

C            D
Pumpkin pie, whipped cream and coffee,

G                   D
I wanna green salad on the side,

G                       D
Don't forget the french fries,

C          D             G
Pizza pie, garlic and anchovie.

C#     D                                                  E
I keep burning up calories as fast as I keep putting them down,

D         E
Eat food, put it in my mouth,

D           E                  C  D
Chew it up, swallow it down,

          G         D           G
I'll have two eggs, over light, home made apple pie

C         D         G        C#
Cole slaw as a side order.

        G                                           C        D             G
I gotta stay fit, stay alive, eat food to sustain a non-stop high-grade performer.

D                                             E
The pace is continual, sure keeps running me down

D                       E
Don't you know that you gotta eat food,

D                       E                    C#   D
Don't you know that you gotta refuel.

     G          C          G           C
I'm a Maximum Consumption, super-grade performer.

G            C          G
High powered machine,

    C
Go steady on my clutch, go easy on the hills

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And you'll get a lot of mileage out of me.

      D                          C
I'm so easy to drive, and I'm an excellent ride,

    D                                  E
Excessive living sure keeps running me down

D                              E
You've got to learn to use the Maximum Juice

D                      E              C  D  E
That's how you get the maximum use.

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Life keeps using me, keeps on abusing me, mentally and physically.

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I gotta stay fit, stay alive, need fuel inside, eat food to survive

D                                        E
Maximum Consumption sure keeps running me down

D                       E
Don't you know that you gotta eat food

D                        E                C  D  E
Don't you know that it's good for you.

G                C
I'm a Maximum Consumption,

G          C
Total automation perpetual motion.