I don't like Mondays (Listen to midi)    (sample)

 

    Bm - Bm - Bm - F - Bm - C - D - C

 

             G                 Bm                             C                     D

1. The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload,

            G                                     Bm

    and nobody's gonna go to school today,

                           C                           D

    she's gonna make them stay at home,

              C                              D                   

    And Daddy doesn't understand it,

                       G                                 C

    he always said she was good as gold,

                     

    and he can see no reason, ’cause there are no reasons,

                                                         D - D7 - D - D7

    what reason do you need to be sho…………..wn?

 

               G                      Em                        C                       D

Tell me why, I don't like Mondays, tell me why, I don’t like Mondays.

               G                      Em

Tell me why, I don’t like Mondays

                  C  - D        - - - - - - - - -     G     - Bm - C - D - C       

I wanna sho…...ot - - the whole day down

 

             G                       Bm                            C                           D

2. The telex machine is kept so clean and it types to a waiting world,

                         G                                      Bm                

    and Mother feels so shocked, father's world is rocked,

                       C                             D

    and their thoughts turn to their own little girl.

         C                          D                          G                           C

    Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen, no, it ain't so neat to admit defeat ?

                     

    They can see no reasons, ’cause there are no reasons,

                                       D     D7   D             D7

    what reason do you need, oh wow wow wow?

 

               G                      Em                        C                       D

Tell me why, I don't like Mondays, tell me why, I don’t like Mondays.

               G                      Em

Tell me why, I don’t like Mondays,

 

 

 

 

 

                  C  - D         - - - - - - - - -     

I wanna sho…...ot - - the whole day

 Bm                                          G     - Bm - C - D - G ~ ~

down down, down, shot it all down.

 

                        G                                Bm                        

3. And all the playing stopped at the playground now,

             C                               D

    she wants to play with her toys a while.

                  G                           Bm                           

    And school's out early and soon we'll be learning,

                  C                       D

    and the lesson today is how to die,

                           C                                       D

    And then the bullhorn crackles, and the captain tackles,

                     G                                            C

     with the problems and the how's and why's.

                       

    And he can see no reasons, ’cause there are no reasons,

                                                   D   D7  D    D7

    what reason do you need to die, die, oho ho.

 

               G                      Em                       C                        D

Tell me why, I don't like Mondays, tell me why, I don’t like Mondays.

              G                    - Em                  - C                     D

Tell me why, I don’t like,        I don’t like,      I don’t like Mondays.

               G                    - Em                  - C                      D

Tell me why, I don’t like,        I don’t like,       I don’t like Mondays.

               G                      Em

Tell me why, I don't like Mondays,

                  C  - D         - - - - - - - - -     G     - Bm - C - D - G

I wanna sho…...ot  - - the whole day down.

 

(capo 4th)    (Bob Geldof & The Boomtown Rats)