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Key: F#
* = Strum once, then mute.
Intro:
D G
Verse 1:
D G
My dog's stomach was very upset,
D A
So I put him in the car and we went to the vet.
D G A*
Gnd on our way to the vet,
D
I killed a cat.
G A N.C. D A
Hey, I said isn't that ironic?
D G
I adopted a child from overseas,
D A
to rescue him from child labor factories,
D G A N.C. D A
And on his very first birthday we went to Build-A-Bear Workshop.
Chorus:
D G A
Isn't that ironic
D G D A
I said isn't that I-R-O-N-I-C-I-N-O-R-I-R-O-N-I-C?
Bridge:
D G
A water-park is burnt to the ground,
D A
And a tow-truck has broken down.
D G
I always used to cry when I laughed,
D* D G D A
and then I was raped by a clown.
D G A
Isn't that ironic?
Verse 2:
D G
I was watching Al Gore on CNN,
D A
He was talking, and talking, and talking, and then,
D G A N.C. D G A
Out of boredom, my pet polar bear shot himself.
D G
I dated an animal rights activist,
D A
and one day she got really pissed,
D G A*
Because I was eating veal,
D G A*
That was wrapped in pita bread.
D G D A
PETA? Fuck it,
Chorus:
D G D A
Isn't that I-R-O-N-I-C-I-N-O-R-I-R-O-N-I-C?
D A D G
I'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch,
D A D G*
And I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncle's pull-out couch.
E A B
Isn't that ironic, I-R-O-N-I-C
Verse 3:
E A
If every day you play the board-game Risk,
E B E
You probably never taken a risk in your life.
A E B
And Monopoly has far from the stranglehold on the board game market.
E A E B*
A little kid died from suffocation, when he choked a game piece from Operation.
E A
And I can't grow a beard.
E B*
That one's not ironic, that one's just sad.
E
Oh
E A B
Bob Barker got all of my pets pregnant.
E A E B*
My grandfather had Alzheimer's and one day we were
Song History
Published: February 19, 2026
Last Updated: February 19, 2026