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Simon]]> Easy Songs simonsays https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/i-dont-like-mondays-boomtown-rats/#post-293481 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/i-dont-like-mondays-boomtown-rats/#post-293461 Thu, 22 May 2008 23:33:39 +0000
Ive no idea what the original chords were but this is a really nice easy version but still keeping the feel of the song. Sliding from F to G works really well.

Any thoughts on chords for the section "the playing stopped in the playground"]]> Easy Songs jase36 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/i-dont-like-mondays-boomtown-rats/#post-293461 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/i-dont-like-mondays-boomtown-rats/#post-31808 Thu, 22 May 2008 13:37:45 +0000 Its sounds ok with easy versions of F or if you are up to a full barre F you can then slide that to the third fret for the barred G.
Playing the Em with your 4th and 5th fingers will make it easier to cange to a barre F chord

The (C)silicon chip in(Em)side her head
Gets (F)switched to over(G)load
And (C)nobody's gonna go to (Em)school today
She's gonna (F)make them stay at (G)home
And (F)daddy doesn't under(G)stand it
He always (C)said she was good as (F)gold
And he can (F)see no reasons
'Cos there (F)are no reasons
What (F)reason do you need to be (G)show-ow-(G)ow-ow-own?

Tell me (C)why
I don't like (Em)Mondays
Tell me (F)why
I don't like (G)Mondays
Tell me (C)why
I don't like (Em)Mondays
I wanna (F)shoo-oo-oo-oo-oo-(G)oot the whole day (C)down

The song plays well enough with a simple DDUUDU pattern with some emphasis on the first down strum

Please note this version is not in the same key as the original so you wont be able to play along to the cd with it. Capo the guitar as required to suit your drunken friends singing voices :mrgreen:

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