Thumbs chords by Sabrina Carpenter

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

Submitter: Joaquim

VERSE:
C minorCm
Somewhere in the world, there is a father and a mother
C minorCm
And the father is a son, who has a mother
         AbAb
The mother has a daughter,
AbAb
who gets married to the brother of a mother
     F minorFm         Bb majorBb
And they all just tryna multiply with one another

PRE-CHORUS:
C minorCm
'Cause that's just the way of the world
C minorCm
It never ends 'til the end, then you start again
 AbAb
That's just the way of the world
F minorFm              Bb majorBb
That's just the way of the world

VERSE:
C minorCm
Somewhere in the world,
C minorCm
they think they're working for themselves
C minorCm
They get up everyday to go to work for someone else
    AbAb
And somebody works for them,
AbAb
and so, they think they got it made
       F minorFm           Bb majorBb
But they're all just working to get paid the very same


CHORUS:
       C minorCm
And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
C minorCm
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum
       AbAb
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
    F minorFm
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum
        C minorCm
And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
C minorCm
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum (skiddly-dee-dat-dum)
      AbAb
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
    F minorFm      Bb majorBb
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum

VERSE:
C minorCm
Somewhere in the world, you got a robber and a bank
C minorCm
And the bank robbed the people,
C minorCm
so the people rob the bank
    AbAb
And the police came to get him,
 AB
but they let him get away
        F minorFm
'Cause they're all just workin'
     Bb majorBb
to get paid the very same

PRE-CHORUS:
C minorCm
'Cause that's just the way of the world
C minorCm
It never ends 'til the end, then you start again
 AbAb
That's just the way of the world
 F minorFm             Bb majorBb
That's just the way of the world

CHORUS:
       C minorCm
And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
C minorCm
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum
       AbAb
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
    F minorFm
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum
        C minorCm
And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
C minorCm
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum (skiddly-dee-dat-dum)
      AbAb
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
    F minorFm      Bb majorBb
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum

BRIDGE:
C minorCm
Don't believe everything that you hear
C minorCm
Let it go through your left and right ear
            AbAb
Don't just march to the beat of that drum
     F minorFm            Bb majorBb
Don't be one of them people just twiddlin' them thumbs


Breakdown:
    C minorCm
'Cause that's just the way of the world
C minorCm
(way of the world)
 C minorCm
It never ends 'til the end,
 C minorCm
then you start again (start again)
AbAb
That's just the way of the world
F minorFm             Bb majorBb
That's just the way of the world

CHORUS:
 C minorCm
And so, they keep on twiddlin'
 C minorCm
 them thumbs (keep on)
 C minorCm
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum (skiddly-dee-dat-dum)
      AbAb
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
    F minorFm        Bb majorBb
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum (Woo-oo, woo-oo)
       C minorCm
And so, they keep on twiddlin'
 C minorCm
them thumbs (keep on, keep on)
 C minorCm
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum (skiddly-dee-dat-dum)
       AbAb
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (la-a-a-a-a)
     F minorFm
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum
 Bb majorBb
(Siddly-dee-dat-dat-dat-de-dat-dum-dum)

OUTRO:
 C minorCm
And so, they keep on twiddlin'
 C minorCm
them thumbs (keep on, keep on)
 C minorCm
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum
 C minorCm
They keep on, they keep on
 C minorCm
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
 C minorCm
Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum
 C minorCm
'Cause that's just the way of the world

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