Key: C
Introduction:
D#m B7/A D#E F#
(piano-solo on black keys)
B D#m
The silicon chip inside her head
E F#
Gets switched to overload
B D#m
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
E F#
She's gonna make them stay at home,
E F#
And Daddy doesn't understand it,
B E
He always said she was good as gold,
E
And he can see no reasons
E
Cos there are no reasons
E F#
What reason do you need to be shown
B D#m/A#
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
E/G# F#
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
B D#m/A#
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
E F#
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oo - oo - oot
B
The whole day down.
B D#m
The Telex machine is kept so clean
E F#
And it types to a waiting world,
B
And Mother feels so shocked
D#m
Father's world is rocked,
E
And their thoughts turn to
F#
Their own little girl.
E F#
Sweet sixteen ain't that peachy keen,
B E
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
E
They can see no reasons
E
Cos there are no reasons
E F#
What reasons do you need
Tell me why I don't like mondays
D#4 B7/A
The whole day down, down, down, shoot it all down...
D#sus4E F# B
(piano-solo on black keys)
B D#m
And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
E F#
She wants to play with her toys a while,
B D#m
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
E F#
And the lesson today is how-to-die.
E
And then the bullhorn crackles,
F#
And the captain tackles,
B E
With the problems and the how's and why's
E
And he can see no reasons
E
Cos there are no reasons
E F#
what reason do you need to die
Tell me why I don't like mondays
B
The whole day down.