They Might Be Giants - Cant Keep Johnny Down Chords & Tabs

 

Cant Keep Johnny Down Chords & Tabs

They Might Be Giants Chords & Tabs

Version: 1 Type: Chords

Cant Keep Johnny Down Chords

   
I have to give credit to Antgeth who tabbed this. Got it from the tmbg wiki.

Intro/Verse lick (outro lick played one octave down)
e--------15--17----------14--15-------------12--15------------------|
B-----15--------------15--------------13-15-------------------------|
G--16--------------14--------------12--------------------12--14-----|
D----------------------------------------------------14-------------|
A-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------------------------------------|

G D C
G D C


G D C                    G D
Outnumbered a million to one
C                   G    D    C
All of the dicks in this dick town
           G   D  C
Can't keep Johnny down
G D C                        G D
M-e-n piled up in a towering mound
C                     G     D C
None of them once has found a way
        G  D   C
To keep Johnny down


A                  Em
Spending days by myself

Remembering slights
          A           B
I'm not a monument to justice
                   C
Plus which I don't forget a face


         G   D
And they can't (down, down, down)
C                 G  D
Can't keep Johnny down (down, down, down)
C                          G D
They haven't yet built the man (down, down, down)
C                         G  D C
That will keep old Johnny down (down, down, down)

[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/they_might_be_giants/cant_keep_johnny_down_crd.html ]
Em A C D G C A D


     G  D
Some dude
        C                 G  D
Hitting golf balls on the moon
C               G   D
Bathroom in his pants
       C                       G D C
And he thinks he's better than m-e
    G D        C                G  D
I'm pointing a finger at my own face
     C                    G
They can't know what's in here
D   C               G   D  C
And they can't keep Johnny down


A
  Beneath my dignity
   Em
To flip off the guy
        A             B
When he pulls up alongside
          C
To say my gas cap is unscrewed


         G   D
And they can't (down, down, down)
C                 G  D
Can't keep Johnny down (down, down, down)
C                          G D
They haven't yet built the man (down, down, down)
C                         G  D C
That will keep old Johnny down (down, down, down)


   G   D
And they don't (down, down, down)
C                    G  D
Don't know what I've seen (down, down, down)
C                    G  D
Can't know what's in here (down, down, down)
C                          G  D C
And they can't keep Johnny down (down, down, down)


Em A C D G C A D

G D C Am G