The Punk And The Godfather chords by The Who

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

The Punk and the Godfather
By The Who  from Quadrophenia, 1973  written by Pete Townshend


[chords]
A5A5  x02255   G/BG/B  x20033
D2/A x04230   G/DG/D  xx0433
Cadd9Cadd9 x30030   D7D7  xx0535
G/C  x30033

[Intro]

|| A5A5  | D2  | Fmaj7Fmaj7   G+G | G+G | A augmentedA  ||x2

A5A5            D2            Fmaj7Fmaj7        G+G  A augmentedA
You declared you would be three inches taller, You only became what we made
you.
Thought you were chasing a destiny calling, You only earned what we gave you.

D MajorD             G/DG/D          D7D7          G/DG/D
You fell and cried as our people were starving, now you know that we blame
you.

A5A5            D2           FF          G+G   A augmentedA
You tried to walk on the trail we were carving, now you know that we framed
you.

[chorus]
D MajorD         G/DG/D           Cadd9Cadd9
I'm the guy in the sky flying high flashing eyes
          G+G            E MajorE
No surprise I told lies I'm the punk in the gutter

         Esus4Esus4         D2/B
I'm the new president but I grew and I bent

             A augmentedA              E MajorE
Don't you know? don't it show? I'm the punk with the stutter.

  D MajorD D2 D MajorD D2
  My my my my  my mmmm my my my. GGGGG-g-g-g-g generation.
e||-5--4--2--0-|---2-0---||
b||------------|-------2-||

We tried to speak between lines of oration
You could only repeat what we told you.
Your axe belongs to a dying nation,
They don't know that we own you.
You're watching movies trying to find the feelers,
You only see what we show you.
We're the slaves of the phony leaders
Breathe the air we have blown you.

[repeat chorus]

D MajorD              G/C                G/BG/B
I have to be careful not to preach, I can't pretend that I can teach,

                A augmentedA
And yet I've lived your future out by pounding stages like a clown.


And on the dance floor broken glass, the bloody faces slowly pass,
The numbered seats in empty rows, it all belongs to me, you know.

[repeat first verse]