Poster Child chords by Red Hot Chili Peppers (Ver. 2)

Key: Bb

Intro:

| E7  | F7   E7  |




Verse 1:
 G7+9
Melle Mel and Richard Hell were dancing at the Taco Bell
      C7
When someone heard a rebel yell
I think it was an infidel
G7+9
Adam Ant and Robert Plant were center of a sycophant
C7
Used to buy Ulysses Grant to record at the Record Plant
   G7+9
Islamabad is on the nod
Havana at the riot squad
    C7
And if you want to be a Mod, you'll have to meet me at the quad

Refrain:
G7+9
 You got the best of my loco
C7
 I'll take the rest of your showboat
G7+9
 You got the best of my Yoko
C7
 I'll take the rest of your lono


Verse 2:
 G7+9
Parliamеnt's Atomic Dog that hats were filling up a fog
    C7
We talk about thе life and death of everything he ever loved
     G7+9
The seventies were such a win, singing the Led Zeppelin
 C7
Lizzy lookin' mighty thin, the Thompson's had another twin
    G7+9
I thought I won the lottery, the numbers never thought of me
   D7+9
Ramones had a lobotomy, so spin me like a pottery


Chorus:
G               C7
I will be your poster child
              G                 C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G             C7               G
And then I will be your poster child tonight, ow
 D7+9
La-da-da-da, bum-bum-budum


Verse 3:
   G7+9
A funky piece, the Sandinista, me and minor Mona Lisa
 C7
Judas Priest has whipped the beast, the mother love was named Theresa
 G7+9
Bubble gum, a cup of soup, dirty dandy nanda loop
    C7
A small banana in your hoop, and now I know the band is snooka
 G7+9
Bernie Mac and Caddyshack were dusty as the bric-a-brac
    C7
And if you ask me for the time
I tell you that the preacher's back


Refrain:
G7+9
 You got the best of my loco
C7
 I'll take the rest of your showboat
G7+9
 You got the best of my Yoko
C7
 I'll take the rest of your lono


Verse 4:
       G7+9
Steve Miller and Duran Duran, the Joker dancing in the sand
     C7
Van Morrison - the Astral man - the festival of hurricanes
  G7+9
Speak of Chico and the Man, the silence of a certain lamb
 C7
MC5 kick out the jam, a poncho full of contraband
 G7+9
Merry Queen was on the scene on every preteen magazine
     D7+9
The Motörhead and mystic queen
I must've needed Valvoline


Chorus:
G               C7
I will be your poster child
              G                 C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G             C7               G
And then I will be your poster child tonight
 D7+9
La-da-da-da, bum-bum-budum


Bridge:
   Bb    Am         Gm
You     got me on this
      C                   D7    C7   D7
But then I can't get off
                      C7    D7
With no one else but you
   Bb   Am         Gm
You    turn me on to
 C                         D7    C7   D7
Well, then I can't get up, ooh
                     C7   D7
For no one else but you


Verse 5:
       G7+9
Creem magazine
A Love Supreme, the ballad of a Billie Jean
     C7
And now we know the Status Quo, but God would never save the Queen
 G7+9
Hear me shakin'
Copenhagen, cop a ghost of Ronald Reagan
C7
All I say was Flavor Flav the cosmic rays were power saving
     G7+9
And my fist double kissed a listed number purple
     C7
Mr Chubby Checker do the twist, and everyone's a narcissist


Refrain:
G7+9
 You got the best of my loco
C7
 I'll take the rest of your showboat
G7+9
 You got the best of my Yoko
C7
 I'll take the rest of your lono


Verse 5:
     G7+9
The waterbed was takin' meds, ?:
   C7
A beaver with the house of red ?: a pocket full of Talking Heads
  G7+9
M.I.A.'s making paper planes, addiction to the ways of Janes
     C7
My stuff is made of purple rain
     C7
Ten fingers in the lion's mane
 G7+9
Giant squid
Karate Kid
Sid Vicious and the ?: we did
      D7+9
The planet that we must ?:


Chorus:
G               C7
I will be your poster child
              G                 C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G             C7               G      D7+9
And then I will be your poster child tonight
G               C7
I will be your poster child
              G                 C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G             C7               G      D7+9
And then I will be your poster child tonight



Ending:
| Bb   Am  | Gm    C  | D7    C7   D7  | C7   D7  | 4x

| G  |