Twentieth Century Man chords by The Kinks

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
This is the age of machinery
D 
A mechanical nightmare
G 
The wonderful world of
C 
technology
Napalm hydrogen bombs
G 
biological warfare

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Verse 2

This is the twentieth century

But too much aggravation

It's the age of insanity

What has become of the green

pleasant fields of Jerusalem

Verse 3
G 
F 
Ain't got no ambition
G 
F 
I'm just disillusioned
C 
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want,
G 
I don't want to be here

Interlude 1

Verse 4
G 
My mama said she can't
understand me
D 
She can't see my motivation
G 
Just give me some security
C 
F 
I'm a paranoid schizoid product
G 
of the twentieth century

Verse 5
G 
You keep all your smart modern writers
D 
F 
Give me William Shakespeare
G 
You keep all your smart modern painters
C 
F 
I'll take Rembrandt, Titian,
C 
G 
Da Vinci and Gainsborough

Verse 6
G 
F 
Girl we gotta get out of here
G 
F 
We gotta find a solution
C 
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want,
G 
I don't want to die here

Verse 7
G 
F 
Girl, we gotta get out of here
G 
F 
We gotta find a solution
C 
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want,
G 
I don't want to be here

Interlude 2

Verse 8
G 
D 
G 
I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
F 
C 
D 
Controlled by civil servants
Eb 
Bb 
C 
G 
And people dressed in grey
Gm 
F 
Got no  privacy, got no liberty
C 
G 
'Cause the twentieth century people
Eb 
C 
G 
Took it all away from me

Interlude 3

Don't want to get myself

Verse 9
C 
F 
C 
shot down
G 
F 
C 
F 
C 
By some trigger happy policeman
G 
F 
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
C 
Eb 
Bb 
F 
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want
G 
to die here

Interlude 4

My mama says she can't

Verse 10
F 
C 
understand me
G 
She can't see my mo
F 
C 
F 
C 
G 
tivation
F 
Ain't got no security
C 
Eb 
Bb 
I'm a twentieth century man but I
F 
G 
don't want to die here

Verse 11
G 
C 
G 
F 
C 
F 
C 
G 
F 
I don't
C 
F 
G 
F 
want
C 
G 
F 
C 
G 
twentieth century, man
F 
I don't want twentieth century,
C 
G 
man
F 
C 
I don't want twentieth century, man
G 
F 
C 
I don't want twentieth century,

Interlude 5

man

Verse 12
F 
C 
This is the twentieth century
G 
But too much aggravation
F 
C 
G 
F 
This is the edge of insanity
C 
Eb 
Bb 
I'm a twentieth century man
F 
G 
but I don't want to be here