The Shadow Government chords by They Might Be Giants

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
G+G    C majorC         G+G   C majorC
Driving home from my meth lab
G+G    C majorC       G+G    C majorC
Realized something had changed
G+G      C majorC
Looked in the sky
G+G      C majorC
Saw with my eye
  G+G    C majorC     G+G  C majorC
The moon was following me

Chorus:
      C majorC      A minorAm      G+G E minorEm C majorC
Where's the shadow government when you need it?
      C majorC      A minorAm
Where's the shadow government?
    G+G  E minorEm C majorC
It's a bad bad world
    G+G  E minorEm C majorC   B minorBm
It's a bad bad world


Verse:
G+G    C majorC       G+G   C majorC
Sifting through the confetti,
 G+G     C majorC     G+G   C majorC
I picked up my broken phone
 G+G       C majorC
I looked in the crack
  G+G     C majorC
Somebody waved back
   G+G        C majorC    G+G   C majorC
Just sitting on their somebody throne


Chorus:
      C majorC      A minorAm      G+G E minorEm C majorC
Where's the shadow government when you need it?
      C majorC      A minorAm
Where's the shadow government?
    G+G  E minorEm C majorC
It's a bad bad world
    G+G  E minorEm   G+G
It's a bad bad

Bridge:
 D MajorD
"Up the library steps"
 D#D#
"Up the library steps"
 E MajorE
"Up the library steps"
 FF
"Up the library steps"
 D MajorD     D#D#     E MajorE     FF
"Here comes the Humvee, the Humvee"


Verse:
N.C.
Crawling out of the flophouse,
N.C
I saw the mayor stealing my junk
G+G     C majorC
I doth protest
G+G     C majorC
Citizen's arrest
    G+G   C majorC   G+G   C majorC
Now my body's in his trunk


Chorus:
      C majorC      A minorAm      G+G E minorEm C majorC
Where's the shadow government when you need it?
      C majorC      A minorAm
Where's the shadow government?
    G+G  E minorEm C majorC
It's a bad bad world
    G+G  E minorEm C majorC
It's a bad bad world
    G+G  E minorEm  B minorBm
It's a bad bad


Outro:
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC G+G C majorC G+G C majorC
C  A minorAm G+G E minorEm G+G

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