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Be Good Johnny Chords by Men At Work

Be Good Johnny chords by Men At Work

Guitar chords with lyrics

During the chorus and verses, keyboards and guitar are rolling back and forth with D, C, Bm, C, D, etc.  In the
pre-chorus, guitar goes back and forth on F and G.  Then for the Be good be good's, the D, C, Bm, C pattern
continues.  It was hard to indicate in the notation,
but the final C of the "be good" stanzas occurs precisely when the background singers say "Jooohnny."

Verse:
D             C
Skip de skip, up the road
Bm                C
Off to school we go
D                              C
"Don't you be a bad boy Johnny
  Bm                          C
Don't you slip up or play the fool"

D          C
"Oh no Ma, Oh no Da,
Bm                   C
I'll be your golden boy
D           C             Bm     C
I will obey ev'ry golden rule"
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Pre-Chorus:
F                G
Get told by the teacher
F           G
Not to day-dream
F           G
Told by my mother:

Chorus:
D
Be good Be good
        C
Be good be good be good
        Bm
Be good be good be good be good (Johnny)
C
Be good be good

D
Be good be good
        C
Be good be good be good
        Bm
be good be good be good be good (Johnny)
C
Be good be good.

Verse:
D                       C
"Are you going to play football this year, John?"
Bm                 C
"No!"
D                      C                                   Bm
"Oh, well you must be going to play cricket this year then, are you Johnny?"
C
"No! no! no!"
D                           C                        Bm
"Boy, you sure are a funny kid, Johnny, but I like you! So tell me,
C
What kind of a boy are you, John?"

Pre-Chorus:
F            G
I only like dreaming
F          G
All the day long
F                 G
Where no one is screaming

Chorus

Repeat Pre-Chorus, followed by a verse of nothing but D

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