M.T.V. - GET OFF THE AIR
Dead Kennedys • Key:
⭐ Official Master Chart
OLGA Archive
M.T.V. - GET OFF THE AIR
Dead Kennedys
#From: juhkivij@utu.fi (Juha Kivijarvi)
Intro:
F#
B
C#
(2x bass only)
F#
Fun Fun Fun in the
B
fluffy
C#
chair
Flame
F#
up the herb
Woof
B
down the
C#
beer (2x and continues on background)
(click!)
F#
Hi! I'm your video
B
DJ
C#
I
F#
always talk like I'm
B
wigged out on
C#
quaaludes
F#
I wear a satin
B
baseball
C#
jacket everywhere I
F#
go
B
C#
My
F#
job is to
B
help dest
C#
roy
What's
F#
left of your i
B
magi
C#
nation
By
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feeding you
B
endless
C#
doses
Of
F#
sugar-coated mindless
B
garbage
C#
So
F#
don't create
B
Be se
C#
date
Be a
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vegetable at home And
B
thwack on that
C#
dial
If
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we have our way even
B
you will be
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lieve (Fun fun fun... ends)
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This is the future of rock and roll
(M.T.V GET OFF THE AIR!)
How
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far will you go
B
A
How
F#
low will you stoop
B
A
To
B
tranquilize our
A
minds with your
B
sugar-coated
A
swill
You've
F#
turned rock and roll rebellion
B
A
Into
F#
Pat Boone sedation
B
A
B
Making sure
A
nothing's left
B
of the imagi
D
nation
C#
M.T.V.
B
Get off the
C#
M.T.V.
B
Get off the
C#
M.T.V.
B
Get off the
F#
air (2x)
E
Get off the
F#
air
F#
See the latest rejects
B
A
F#
from the muppet show
B
A
B
Wag their tits and their
A
dicks
As they
B
lip-synch on
A
screen
There's
F#
something I don't like
A
B
bout
A
a
F#
band who always smiles
B
A
An
B
other tax
A
write-off
For some
B
schmuck who doesn't
D
care
M.T.V. Get off the air...
Get off the air
Get off the air
Get off the
F#
air
F
E
D#
C#
(bass break - following line twice: 1st time with bass only, 2nd time with
guitar playing chords above)
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(and this once)
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C#m
B
A
G#
(2x trumpet or something)
And
C#
so it
B
was
Our
C#
beloved corporate
B
gods
F#
Claimed they cr
E
eated rock
F#
video
E
C#
Allowing it to
B
sink as low in
C#
one year
B
As
F#
commercial
E
TV has in
C#
25
C#m
"It's the new frontier,"
B
they say
It's
A
wide open, anything can
G#
happen
But
C#m
you've got a lot of nerve
To call your
B
self a pioneer
When you're too
A
god-damn conservative
To take
G#
real chances.
C#
Tin-eared
B
Graph-
C#
paper
B
brained ac
F#
countants
E
Instead of music
F#
fans
E
C#
Call all the
B
shots at giant
C#
record companies
B
now
The
F#
lowest common de
E
nominator
C#
rules
C#m
Forget honesty
B
Forget creativity
The
A
dumbest buy the mostest
That's the
G#
name of the game
But
C#m
sales are slumping
And
B
no one will say why
A
Could it be they put out one too many
G#
lousy records?!?
C#
M.T.V. -
B
Get off the
F#
air!
F#
NOW!
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