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Ironic by Bo Burnham

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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