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Can't Keep Johnny Down

Can't Keep Johnny Down easy guitar chords by They Might Be Giants

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  • G

  • D

  • C

  • Em

  • A

  • B

    2
  • Am

  • G

  • D

  • C

  • Em

  • A

  • B

    2
  • Am

  • Intro 1
    G
    D
    G
    C
    Em
    G
    D
    G
    C

    Verse 1
    G

    Out
    D
    C
    G
    D

    numbered 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

    Men piled up in a towering mound
    C
    G
    D
    C

    None of them once has found a way
    G
    D

    To keep Johnny down
    C
    Verse 2
    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
    Verse 3
    G
    D

    And they can't

    (down, down, down)
    C
    G

    Can't keep Johnny down

    (down, down, down)
    D
    C
    G

    They haven't yet built the man (down, down,
    D

    down)
    C
    G
    D
    C

    That'll keep old Johnny down (down,
    Interlude 1

    down, down)
    Em
    A
    C
    D
    G
    C
    A
    D

    Verse 4
    G
    D

    Some dude
    C
    G
    D

    Hitting golf balls on the moon
    C
    G

    Bathroom in his pants
    D
    C

    And he thinks he's
    G
    D
    C

    better than me
    G
    D
    C

    I'm pointing a finger at
    G
    D

    my own face
    C
    G

    They can't know what's in here
    D
    C

    And they can't keep
    G
    D
    C
    A

    Johnny down
    Verse 5
    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
    Verse 6
    G
    D

    And they can't

    (down, down, down)
    C
    G

    Can't keep Johnny down
    D

    (down, down, down)
    C
    G
    D

    They haven't yet built the man (down,

    down, down)
    C
    G

    That'll keep old Johnny down
    D
    C

    (down, down, down)
    Verse 7
    G
    D

    And they don't

    (down, down, down)
    C

    Don't know what I've seen
    G

    (down, down, down)
    D
    C

    They can't know what's in
    G
    D

    here (down, down, down)
    C
    G
    D

    And they can't keep Johnny down (down, down, down)
    Outro 1
    C
    Em
    A
    C
    D
    G
    C
    A

    D
    G
    D
    C
    Am

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