The Shadow Government chords by They Might Be Giants

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

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

Chorus:
            C            Am            G Em C
Where's the shadow government when you need it?
            C            Am
Where's the shadow government?
       G   Em  C
It's a bad bad world
       G   Em  C     Bm
It's a bad bad world


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


Chorus:
            C            Am            G Em C
Where's the shadow government when you need it?
            C            Am
Where's the shadow government?
       G   Em  C
It's a bad bad world
       G   Em      G
It's a bad bad


Bridge:
 D
"Up the library steps"
 D#
"Up the library steps"
 E
"Up the library steps"
 F
"Up the library steps"
 D          D#          E          F
"Here comes the Humvee, the Humvee"


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


Chorus:
            C            Am            G Em C
Where's the shadow government when you need it?
            C            Am
Where's the shadow government?
       G   Em  C
It's a bad bad world
       G   Em  C
It's a bad bad world
       G   Em   Bm
It's a bad bad


Outro:
G C G C G C G C
C   Am  G Em G