Intro (piano): Bm          C   Bm               C     D D   C C

Verse 1:
    G              Bm                C               D
The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload,
    G                    Bm
And nobody's gonna go to school today, she’s gonna
C                 D
Make them stay at home,
    C                  D
And daddy doesn't understand it,
          G            G        C
He always said she was good as gold.
           C                         C
And he can see no reasons, cos there are no reasons,
     C                         D    D7
What reasons do you need to be shown?

Chorus:
        G                G  
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        C                D
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        G                G  
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        C                  D
I wanna shoot, Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh,
((nc))        G      Bm   C    D D   C C
The whole day down.

Verse 2:
    G                Bm
The Telex machine is kept so clean,
       C                  D
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
Sweet sixteen ain't that peachy keen,
       G                   C
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
         C                        C
They can see no reasons cos there are no reasons
     C              D   D7
What reasons do you need?

Chorus:
        G                G  
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        C                D
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        G                G  
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        C                  D
I wanna shoot, Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh,
((nc))        Bsus4   Bm     Bsus4   Bm            G     Gsus4 G
The whole day down,   down,  down,    shoot it all down...

Interlude: Bsus4  Bm  Bsus4  Bm  C  D

Piano: G

Verse 3:
(G)
And all the
G                        Bm
Playing’s stopped in the playground, now.
    C                      D    D 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   D  D
And the lesson today is how to die.
             C                          Dsus4
And then the bullhorn crackles, and the captain tackles,
         G                C     G   C
With the problems and the how's and why's
           C                         C
And he can see no reasons, cos there are no reasons
     C                     D         D7
What reason do you need to die, die? Ooohh


    G              Bm                C               D
The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload,
    G                    Bm
And nobody's gonna go to school today, she’s gonna
C                 D
Make them stay at home,
    C                  D
And daddy doesn't understand it,
          G            G        C
He always said she was good as gold.
           C                         C
And he can see no reasons, cos there are no reasons,
     C                         D    D7
What reasons do you need to be shown?

Chorus:
        G                G  
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        C                D
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        G               G                        C                 D
Tell me why I don’t like, I don’t like, (tell me why) I don’t like Mondays
        G                Bm                      C                 D
Tell me why, I don’t like, I don’t like (tell me why) I don’t like Mondays,
        G                Bm
Tell me why I don’t like Mondays,
          C                  D
I want to shoot, Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh...
(nc)             G
The. Whole. Day. Down...

Outro:
Bm          C          D      G
(Oo-oo-ooh, oo-oo-ooh, ooooooh.)
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