Poster Child chords by Red Hot Chili Peppers

🎸 Intro:

Am Bb Am



🎸 Verse 1:
G7
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
?Atom Ant? and Robert Plant were center of a sycophant
C7
Used to buy Ulysses Grant to record at the Record Plant
  G7
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
 You got the best of my loco
C7
 I'll take the rest of your showboat
G7
 You got the best of my Yoko
C7
 I'll take the rest of your ?Ono?

🎸 Verse 2:
G7
Parliam nt's Atomic Dog that hats were filling up a fog
     C7
To talk about the lif? and death of everything he ever locked
     G7
The seventies were such a win, singing the Led Zeppelin
C7
Lizzy lookin' mighty thin, the Thompson's had another twin
    G7
I thought I won the lottery, the numbers never thought of me
    D7
Ramones had a lobotomy, so spin me like a pottery

🎸 Chorus:
G7            C7
I will be your poster child
              G7                C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G7           C7                G7
And then I will be your poster child tonight, ow
D7
La da-da-da, bum-bum-budum
🎸 Verse 3:
   G7
A pocket piece, a Sandinista, me and a Mona Lisa
C7
Judas Priest, ? ? was meant to be ? ?
   G7
So bubble gum, a cup of soup, dirty dandy nanda loop
C7
Smoke banana in your hoop, and now I know the band is ? ?
G7
Earnie
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
 You got the best of my loco
C7
I'll take the rest of your showboat
G7
 You got the best of my Yoko
C7
 I'll take the rest of your ?Ono?

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

🎸 Chorus:
G7            C7
I will be your poster child
              G7               C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G7            C7                 G7
And then I will be your poster child tonight

🎸 Bridge:
Bb  Am     G7
You got me on this
C7                    D7
 But then I can't get off
With no one else but you
Bb   Am       G7
You turn me on to
C7                      D7
 Well, then I can't get up, ooh
For no one else but you

🎸 Verse 4:
       G7
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
?: shaken
Copenhagen, cop a ghost of Ronald Reagan
C7
All I say was Flavor Flav the cosmic rays were power saving
G7
And my fist double kissed a listed number purple
    C7
Mr Chubby Checker do the twist, and everyone's a narcissist

🎸 Refrain:
G7
 You got the best of my loco
C7
I'll take the rest of your showboat
G7
 You got the best of my Yoko
C7
 I'll take the rest of your ?Ono?

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

🎸 Chorus:
G7            C7
I will be your poster child
              G7               C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G7            C7                 G7
And then I will be your poster child tonight

🎸 Chorus:
G7            C7
I will be your poster child
              G7               C7
You know the world is ours for a little while
         G7            C7                 G7
And then I will be your poster child tonight

🎸 Outro:
Bb Am Gm C D7

Bb Am Gm C D7

Bb Am Gm C D7

Bb Am Gm C G