Chords with lyrics (Ver. 3)
KEY 
D#D#
Intro: 
Cm7Cm7 Cm7(9) Ab7M 
Fm7Fm7 
Bb majorBb
(Verse 1)
Cm7Cm7
Somewhere in the world
there is a father and a mother
Cm7(9)
And the father is a son who has a mother
Ab7M
The mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of a mother
F minorFm Bb majorBb
And they all just try to multiply with one another
(Pre-Chorus)
Cm7Cm7
'Cause that's just the way of the world
Cm7(9)
It never ends till the end, then you start again
Ab7M
That's just the way of the world
F minorFm Bb majorBb
That's just the way of the world
(Verse 2)
Cm7Cm7
Somewhere in the world
they think they work all for themselves
Cm7(9)
They get up everyday to go to work for someone else
Ab7M
Somebody works for them and so they think they've got it made
F minorFm Bb majorBb
But they're all just working to get paid the very same
(Chorus)
Cm7Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
F minorFm Bb majorBb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Cm7Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
F minorFm Bb majorBb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
(Verse 3)
Cm7Cm7
Somewhere in the world you got a robber at a bank
And the bank robbed the people
Cm7(9)
so the people rob the bank
Ab7M
And the police came to get him, but they let him get away
F minorFm Bb majorBb
'Cause they're all just working to get paid the very same
Pre-Chorus:
Cm7Cm7
'Cause that's just the way of the world
Cm7(9)
It never ends till the end, then you start again
Ab7M
That's just the way of the world
F minorFm Bb majorBb
That's just the way of the world
Chorus:
Cm7Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
F minorFm Bb majorBb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Cm7Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
F minorFm Bb majorBb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Bridge:
Cm7Cm7
Don't believe everything that you hear
Cm7(9)
Let it go through your left and right ear
Ab7M
Don't just march to the beat of that drum
Fm7Fm7 Bb majorBb
Don't be one of them people just twiddlin' them thumbs
Pre-Chorus:
Cm7Cm7
'Cause that's just the way of the world
Cm7(9)
It never ends till the end, then you start again
Ab7M
That's just the way of the world
F minorFm Bb majorBb
That's just the way of the world
Chorus:
Cm7Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
F minorFm Bb majorBb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Cm7Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
F minorFm Bb majorBb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Outro:
Cm7(9)
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum)
Fm7Fm7 Bb majorBb Cm7(9)
Other versions of Thumbs
Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Thumbs acoustic by Sabrina Carpenter
