Garbage chords by Kronos Quartet

SimplifiedG · Cm · F · Bb

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Verse 1
G 
Cm 
G 
Cm 
G 
Cm 
Mr. Thompson Thompson calls the waiter,
Orders steak and baked potato,
But he leaves the bone and gristle,
G 
And he never eats the skins.
The busboy comes and takes it
With a cough contaminates it
He puts it in a can
Cm 
With coffee grounds and sardine tins
G 
And the truck comes by on Friday
Cm 
And carts it all away
F 
A thousand trucks just like it
Bb 
G 
Are converging on the bay
Cm 
Oh, garbage! Garbage! Garbage!
Garbage! Garbage! Garbage!
G 
Filling up the seas with garbage
What will we do and there's no place left
Cm 
to put all the garbage.
Garbage! Garbage! Garbage!
Garbage! Garbage!
Mr. Thompson starts his Cadillac
and winds it down the freeway track
leaving friends and neighbors
G 
in a hydrocarbon haze.
He's joined by lots of smaller cars
all sending gases to the stars.
There they form a seething cloud
Cm 
that hangs for thirty days.
G 
And the sun looks down into it
Cm 
with an ultraviolet tongue,
F 
Turns it into smog
Bb 
G 
and then it settles in our lungs.
Cm 
Oh, garbage! Garbage! Garbage!
Garbage! Garbage!
G 
We're filling up the sky with garbage.
What will we do
when there's nothing left to
breathe but garbage?
Cm 
Garbage! Garbage! Garbage!
Garbage!
Getting home and taking
off his shoes,
he settles with the evening news
While the kids do homework
G 
with the TV in one ear
While Superman for the thousandth time
sells talking dolls and conquers crime
Dutifully they learn the date
Cm 
of the birth of Paul Revere
G 
In the papers there's a piece
Cm 
about the mayor's middle name
F 
He gets it read in time
Bb 
G 
to watch the all -star bingo game.
Cm 
Oh, Garbage! Garbage! Garbage!
Garbage! Garbage! Garbage!
G 
We're filling up our minds with garbage.
What will we do
when there's nothing
left to read?
When there's nothing left
to need?
Nothing left to watch.
Nothing left to touch.
Nothing left to walk upon.
And nothing left to talk upon.
G 
G 
And nothing left to see.
There's nothing left to be but... GARBAGE!