Todd Snider – The Ballad Of The Kingsmen (Guitar)

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The Kingsmen came together in a garage, they could hardly even play

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But they practiced night and day, pretty soon they got to where they could really play that song Louie, Louie

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So, they saved up all the money from the shows, went in to one of them studios and gave their version 

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Now, I don't know the words to that song Louie, Louie and I'm pretty sure the singer for the

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Kingsmen didn't know 'em either, if he did know 'em he didn't get 'em right on the record

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'Cause on the record they sound jumbled in his jaw? It says, "me think of me girl oh so constantly"

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"Ahmayaaah makaaaah aahh ooohoooh aaaaah"

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Well, that last part scared everybody from the PTA to the FBI

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You see, the kids had been going kind of crazy lately and it seemed like nobody could figure out why,

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So they decided to form a coalition, launch an investigation, you know for the children, 

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To figure out the words to Louie, Louie

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It's the feel good hit of this endless summer

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  It gets these kids out of control

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  Singin' along to that star spangled bummer,

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 Hail, hail rock and roll

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Marilyn Manson’s real name isn't even Marilyn Manson, he's a skinny public high school

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Kid from Florida, not some monster from out of this world and like of a lot other skinny long hair public

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High school kids he was sick of getting beaten up by the pulling guard all week only to go out on the weekend,

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Quarterback get all the girls so, he formed a band, man

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Now' he gets all the girls, a few years later a couple of latchkey kids go tragically

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Mad and everybody's standing around the television store at the mall trying to figure out what went wrong,

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you think the life of a kid going to high school could've gotten so bad this other guy says nah,

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It's just the words to one of them goddamn Marilyn Manson songs, you know the one

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It's the feel good hit of this endless summer

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  It gets these kids out of control

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  Singin' along to that star spangled bummer,

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 Hail, hail rock and roll

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You know, every ten years or so our country and some other little country, we start firing all of our

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At each other for some reason or another, right or wrong, like it or not, it happens, and when it happens

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People get shot and when people get shot, they show it on TV a lot every night at six o'clock

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And you don't even have to be eighteen to see it, you don't even have to be in first grade,

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They tell him he'll need to thrive, in a world where only the strong will survive, so he's taught

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To compare to and to keep score Monday thru Friday while he stares at the floor 'til Sunday 

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School once more only this time they make him wear a suit and a tie and listen to some guy who claims to know

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When they die tell him that only the meek are gonna inherit the earth Well shit, by this time the kid doesn't

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Is worth, now brothers and sisters I am only one guy and I don't even know the words to that song Louie, Louie

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but I can tell you right now without batting an eye that the next time some latchkey kid goes wrong

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It ain't gonna be 'cause that Eminem gets to say the word fag in his song

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And I'm not trying to preach to ya either, I'm just trying to sing to ya too, you know string

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Hey kids...

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Let's get it on,

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Let's get it on