The Ballad Of The Kingsmen chords by Todd Snider

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G+G D MajorD C majorC


Verse:
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The Kingsmen came together in a garage, they could hardly even play
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But they practiced night and day pretty soon they got to where they could really play that song Louie, Louie
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So, they saved up all the money from the shows, went in to one of them studios and gave their version

of the song a try

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Now, I don't know the words to that song Louie, Louie and I'm pretty sure the singer for the
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Kingsmen didn't know ‘em either, if he did know ‘em he didn't get ‘em right on the record
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Cause on the record they sound jumbled in his jaw? It says, me think of me girl oh so constantly
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Ahmayaaah makaaaah aahh ooohoooh aaaaah
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Well, that last part scared everybody from the PTA to the FBI
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You see, the kids had been going kind of crazy lately and it seemed like nobody could figure out why,
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So they decided to form a coalition, launch an investigation, you know for the children,

they at least had to try
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To figure out the words to Louie, Louie


Chorus:
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It's the feel good hit of this endless summer
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It gets these kids out of control
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Singin along to that star spangled bummer,
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Hail, hail rock and roll


Verse:
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Marilyn Manson’s real name isn't even Marilyn Manson, he's a skinny public high school
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Kid from Florida, not some monster from out of this world and like of a lot other skinny long hair public
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High school kids he was sick of getting beaten up by the pulling guard all week only to go out on the weekend,

and watch the
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Quarterback get all the girls so, he formed a band man
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Now' he gets all the girls, a few years later a couple of latchkey kids go tragically
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Mad and everybody's standing around the television store at the mall trying to figure out what went wrong,

this guy says,
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you think the life of a kid going to high school could've gotten so bad this other guy says nah,
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It's just the words to one of them goddamn Marilyn Manson songs, you know the one

Chorus:
     G+G  C majorC  G+G      C majorC
It's the feel good hit of this endless summer
G+G       A7A7       D MajorD
It gets these kids out of control
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Singin along to that star spangled bummer,
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Hail, hail rock and roll


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You know, every ten years or so our country and some other little country, we start firing all of our

newest weapons
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At each other for some reason or another, right or wrong, like it or not, it happens, and when it happens
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People get shot and when people get shot, they show it on tv a lot every night at six o clock
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And you don't even have to be eighteen to see it you don't even have to be in first grade,

first grade where they teach the kid pride
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They tell him he'll need to thrive, in a world where only the strong will survive, so he's taught

the art of more
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To compare to and to keep score Monday thru Friday while he stares at the floor til' Sunday

they make him go to
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School once more only this time they make him wear a suit and a tie and listen to some guy who claims to know

where people go
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When they die tell him that only the meek are gonna inherit the earth Well sh*t, by this time the kid doesn't

know what anything
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Is worth, now brothers and sisters I am only one guy and I don't even know the words to that song Louie, Louie
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but I can tell you right now without batting an eye that the next time some latchkey kid goes wrong
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It aint gonna be cause that Eminem gets to say the word Fag in his song
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And I'm not trying to preach to ya either, I'm just trying to sing to ya too, you know string

a few words together


Outro:
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Hey kids...
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Lets get it on,
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Lets get it on