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Verse:
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The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload,
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And nobody's gonna go to school today, she’s gonna
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Make them stay at home,
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And daddy doesn't understand it, 
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He always said she was good as gold.
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And he can see no reasons, cos there are no reasons,
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What reasons do you need to be shown?

Chorus:
        B                B  
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        E                 Gb
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        B                B  
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
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I wanna shoot, Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh,
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The whole day down.

Verse:
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The Telex machine is kept so clean, 
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And it types to a waiting world,
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And Mother feels so shocked; Father's world is rocked,
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And their thoughts turn to their own little girl.
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Sweet sixteen ain't that peachy keen,
       B                   E
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
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They can see no reasons cos there are no reasons
     E              Gb   Gb7
What reasons do you need?

Chorus:
        B                B
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        E                 Gb
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        B                B
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        E                  Gb
I wanna shoot, Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh,
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The whole day down,   down,  down,    shoot it all down...

Interlude:
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    B

Verse:
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And all the
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Playing’s stopped in the playground, now. 
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She wants to play with her toys a while.
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And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
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And the lesson today is how to die.
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And then the bullhorn crackles, and the captain tackles,
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With the problems and the how's and why's
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And he can see no reasons, cos there are no reasons
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What reason do you need to die, die? Ooohh

Chorus:
        B                B
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        E                 Gb
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        B               B                        E                  Gb
Tell me why I don’t like, I don’t like, -tell me why- I don’t like Mondays
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Tell me why, I don’t like, I don’t like -tell me why- I don’t like Mondays,
        B                Ebm
Tell me why I don’t like Mondays, 
          E                  Gb
I want to shoot, Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh...
                 B
The. Whole. Day. Down...


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-Oo-oo-ooh, oo-oo-ooh, ooooooh.-