They Might Be Giants – The Shadow Government (Guitar)

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Chords

[Verse]
G       C                 G      C
Driving home from my meth lab

G        C             G       C
Realized something had changed

G           C
Looked in the sky

G           C
Saw with my eye

    G        C         G    C
The moon was following me
[Chorus]
            C            Am            G Em C
Where's the shadow government when you need it?

            C            Am
Where's the shadow government?

       G   Em  C
It's a bad bad world

       G   Em  C     Bm
It's a bad bad world
[Verse]
G       C              G      C
Sifting through the confetti,

  G         C         G      C
I picked up my broken phone

  G             C
I looked in the crack

    G          C
Somebody waved back

     G                C        G      C
Just sitting on their somebody throne
[Chorus]
            C            Am            G Em C
Where's the shadow government when you need it?

            C            Am
Where's the shadow government?

       G   Em  C
It's a bad bad world

       G   Em      G
It's a bad bad
[Bridge]
 D
"Up the library steps"

 D#
"Up the library steps"

 E
"Up the library steps"

 F
"Up the library steps"

 D          D#          E          F
"Here comes the Humvee, the Humvee"
[Verse] N.C. Crawling out of the flophouse, N.C I saw the mayor stealing my junk
G         C
I doth protest

G          C
Citizen's arrest

       G      C      G     C
Now my body's in his trunk
[Chorus]
            C            Am            G Em C
Where's the shadow government when you need it?

            C            Am
Where's the shadow government?

       G   Em  C
It's a bad bad world

       G   Em  C
It's a bad bad world

       G   Em   Bm
It's a bad bad
[Outro] G C G C G C G C C Am G Em G