Fat Children chords by Tim Minchin

Chords with lyrics

A minorAm       G+G         FF        E minorEm
Do not feed doughnuts to your obese children
A minorAm      G+G        FF          E minorEm
You will regret it when they’re in their teens
A minorAm        G+G         FF            E minorEm
Maccas might shut them up now that they’re seven
   FF
But they won’t forgive you, when
E minorEm                    A minorAm
They’re getting picked last for PE
Bm7Bm7
Don’t you see?

A minorAm
Boombalata motherfucker
D9D9                   DmDm
Have you noticed that your kids are fat?
A minorAm                     D7D7
What are you going to do about that?
A minorAm
What are you going to do?

A minorAm                 D7D7
So you telling me that your family
A minorAm          D7D7
Has a history of obesity
        A minorAm      D7D7
You got a polycystic ovary
A minorAm                D7D7
It’s just the way that God made me

A minorAm       D7D7
It’s unlikely, statistically
       A minorAm
To be a physical thing
        D7D7
But either way it don’t explain why you
        A minorAm
Are in the cue at Burger King

       A minorAm      D7D7
You can blame it on biology
       A minorAm          D7D7
You can blame your physiology
       A minorAm        D7D7
You can point to genealogy
       A minorAm         D7D7
And your social anthropology

       A minorAm            D7D7
You can say you are an ectomorph
       A minorAm              D7D7
That you just can’t get the kilos off
           Bm7Bm7
Well you can be what you wanna be
                      E7E7
But stop feeding that boy KFC

   FF
He weighs 40 kilos and he’s only three
   Bm7Bm7                      E7E7
He looks like a clean-shaven Pavarotti

FF                   C majorC
Switching to Diet Coke is not the way back
G+G
Boombalata kiddie-stuffer
    D MajorD
Your kid’s a fat, have you noticed that?
A minorAm          FF    G+G
And you oughta be ashamed
       A minorAm        FF    G+G
For you only have yourself to blame.

     FF                        C majorC
Your 5 year old princess in her size 14 tutu
G+G             D MajorD          E7E7
Only eats pizza like that because you do
       C majorC
Will be dead of a heart attack
   G+G                   C majorC    G+G
Before your grandchildren are ten
   C majorC
Perhaps you’ll consider
  G+G                C majorC    G+G
A augmentedA cut-back on extra fries then

A minorAm
Boombalata kiddie-stuffer
D9D9                   DmDm
Have you noticed that your kids are fat?
A minorAm                     D7D7
What are you going to do about that?
A minorAm
What are you going to do?

A minorAm                 D7D7
So you telling me that your family
A minorAm          D7D7
Has a history of obesity
        A minorAm      D7D7
You got a polycystic ovary
A minorAm                D7D7
It’s just the way that God made me

A minorAm       D7D7
But – and in your case
        A minorAm         D7D7
There’s a reasonably big butt
      A minorAm                D7D7
Do you think it’s an appropriate treat
             A minorAm      D7D7
The all-you-can-eat at Pizza Hut?

         A minorAm          D7D7
There’s no excuse you silly goose
     A minorAm       D7D7
For a child with a caboose
     A minorAm                    D7D7
Like a moose who’s eaten too much mousse
   A minorAm             D7D7
It’s tantamount to child abuse

         A minorAm        D7D7
Kick them off the fucking couch
  A minorAm       D7D7
Unplug the Playstation
         A minorAm       D7D7
Send them down to the park
          A minorAm      D7D7
If they don’t wanna go, make ’em

A minorAm              D7D7
Tell them they have to jog
        A minorAm        D7D7
Until their jogging shorts fit’em
     A minorAm        D7D7
If they hesitate, ask firmly
      A minorAm
If they still resist, hit’em

  FF                    C majorC
Is this what you want for your little girl and guy?
     G+G                       D MajorD
These chips off the pork chop, for the toffee apples of your eye?
FF                  C majorC
Six packs of kit cats are not the way back
G+G
Boombalata Kiddie-Stuffer
     D MajorD
Your kids are fat, did ya notice that?

A minorAm               FF    G+G
And you, you ought to be ashamed
A minorAm                  FF    G+G
For you have only got yourself to blame
    FF               C majorC
Your 6 year old miniature Jabba the Hut
     G+G                      D MajorD
Eating half melted Mars Bars from the folds of his gut
       C majorC
He'll be dead of an aneurysm
   G+G                 C majorC    G+G
Before his own children ism ten
   C majorC
Perhaps you’ll consider
  G+G                C majorC     G+G
A augmentedA cut-back on Taco Bell then
  C majorC
Perhaps you’ll consider
  G+G                    C majorC
A augmentedA cut-back on Krispy Kreme doughnuts
            G+G
And Popcorn in bucket-sized boxes
    C majorC              G+G
And microwave pizza or drive through McDonalds
    C majorC                G+G
For weeknightly dinners in front of the TV
    C majorC              G+G
And notes to the phys-ed instructor saying
         C majorC                 G+G
Timmy has asthma but he really just gets short of breath
        C majorC             G+G
Cos he’s 35 kilos above the ideal weight
   C majorC         G+G         C majorC