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City Hall

Tenacious D

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...CITY HALL... by Tenacious D
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*from 'Tenacious D' (2001)*


Verse 1:

E
 All you people,
   B
Up there,
In City Hall,
E
 You're fuckin' it up,
        B
For the people that's,
In the streets.
E
 This is a song,
For the people,
       B
In the streets;
Not the people,
City Hall.

Bridge 1:

Ab   A
 All you,
Ab   A   Ab   A
 Mot-her-fuck-ers,
Ab  A   Ab
 In the streets,
A     Ab
 It's time,
A   Ab   A
 To rise up,
Ab  A  Ab
 Up up up,
     Ab    A
Come along children,
Ab   A       Ab
 And fuckin' rise!

Interlude:

(Faster Tempo):

A  F  G (x4)

Chorus 1:

A
 Lots of times,
     F        G
When me and K-G,
Are watchin';
A
 All the fuckin' shit,
F             G
 That's going down,
        A
At City Hall,
F           G
 We get the feeling,
          A
We should fuck shit up,
Yeah we should,
F                G
 Fuckin' start a riot.

A  F  G     A  F  G
    A Riot!

Chorus 2:

We have 'em screaming,
       A
In the streets,
F            G
 We have 'em tippin',
     A
Over shit,
And breakin'fuckin',
F
 Windows of,
G              A
 Small busines-ses,
And settin',
        F      G
Fuckin' fires!
A
 And settin',
        F      G
Fuckin' fires!
A
 And settin',
        F      G
Fuckin' fires!

Interlude:

A  F  G (x4)

Middle 8:

(Slower Tempo):

A
 And then after,
             Amaj7
The smoke is cleared,
        A7
And the rubble,
Has been swept away,
D
 Me and KG will,
             Dm
Peek out our heads.
           A
We've been watching,
The riots on a monitor,
Dm
 Twenty floors,
Below sea level,
E7
 From a bunker.

A
 We did it Rage-Kage,
   Amaj7
We beat the bastards,
              A7
Of City Hall!
D
 Hahaha!
But now what,
        Dm
Will we do?
A
 We must rebuild.
    Dm
But who will lead us,
In the rebuilding,
          E7
Process?

A
 Man, it's got to be,
Someone with,
              Amaj7
The know-how,
And the elbow grease,
   A7
To lead us,
To a new land.
D
 No, not me and KG,
We don't have the,
F#m
 Cognitive capacity,
To lead...
G
 Alright, we'll do it!

      E7
We'll lead as,
Two kings,
(n.c)
 We'll lead as,
    Amaj7
Two kings.
    Dmaj7
Ahh-haaa.

(Two kings,
We'll lead as,
    Amaj7
Two kings).
         Dmaj7
Ah-ha ah-how,
We'll lead as,
    Amaj7
Two kings.

    Amaj7
The first decree;
      Dmaj7
Is to legalize,
Marijuana.
    Amaj7
The tyranny and,
The bullshit's,
            Dmaj7
Gone on too long.
You old fuckin' shrivs,
    F#m
Who blocked,
It's legalization;
       G
You're banished,
From the land!

      E7
We'll lead as,
Two kings,
(n.c)
 We'll lead as,
    Amaj7
Two kings.
    Dmaj7
Ahh-haaa.

(Two kings,
We'll lead as,
    Amaj7
Two kings).
         Dmaj7
Ah-ha ah-how,
We'll lead as,
    Amaj7
Two kings.

Ama7
 The second decree;
Dmaj7              Amaj7
 No more pollution,
No more car exhaust,
Dmaj7
 Or ocean dumpage.
F#m
 From now on,
                  G
We will travel in tubes!

      E7
We'll lead as,
Two kings,
(n.c)
 We'll fucking,
            Amaj7
Lead as Two Kings.

        Dmaj7
Get the scientists,
Working,
                 Amaj7
On the tube tech-nology,
Immediately.
           Dmaj7
(Tube tech-nology).
Chop, chop, let's go.

              Amaj7
Third decree;
         Dmaj7
No more...
Dmaj7
 Rich people,
    Amaj7
And poor people.
From now on,
                   F#m
We will all be the same...
G
 Ummm,
I dunno,
I gotta think about that...

      E7
We'll lead as,
Two kings,
(n.c)
 We'll lead as,
Two kings.

Amaj7  Dmaj7
 Ha-ha-ho-hee,
Ha-ha-ho-hee,
               Amaj7
Ha-ha-ho-ho-ho-ho.

            Dmaj7
(JB): Oh my God.
(KG): Ahh...What?
(JB): Dude, the red phone,
   Amaj7
Is flashing.
(KG): Oh, yeah.
(JB): Let me scoop that up.
    Dmaj7
Hel-lo? Two Kings.
(KG): Who is it?

      Amaj7
(JB): What?! No!
Dmaj7
 No fucking way!
(KG): What?
      F#m
(JB): Rage, there's a,
Potato famine in Idaho,
You gotta go down there!
G
 (JB): Dude,
I gotta stay here!
(KG): Why do I have to go?
E7
 (JB): Please! Please!
(KG): Oh, God, okay.
     (n.c)
(JB): Awesome...is he gone?

   Amaj7
Al-right,
Emergency meeting,
   Dmaj7
Of Parliament.
          Amaj7
All right Parliament,
I know this is fucked up,
Dmaj7
 But Rage, he can't,
   Amaj7
Be king anymore.
       Dmaj7
Dudes, he's encroaching,
         Amaj7
On my de-crees!
Seriously, let's,
         Dmaj7
Make him Duke,
A kick ass Duke.
F#m
 Or leader formerly,
         G
Known as King, but...
Uh-oh he's comin' back...

      E7
We'll lead as Two Kings,
  (n.c)
Oh yes, we'll really,
            Amaj7
Lead as two kings.


(KG): Uh, dude?
(JB): Rage.
             Dmaj7
(KG): I went all over Idaho...
(JB): Yeah?
(KG): Uh, plenty of,
         Amaj7
Potatoes everywhere.
(JB): What? There was,
No famine?
(KG): Yeah, there was,
           Dmaj7
No famine, no.
(JB): Dude.
(KG): I don't know what's uh...
(JB): A toast...
        Amaj7
(KG): A toast...
                      Dmaj7
(JB): Long live the D.
(KG): Long live the D.
      Amaj7         Dmaj7
(JB): Long live me.
I'm sorry;
                F#m
I poisoned your wine.
(KG): What?
[JB:] For the good,
       G
Of the land.
(KG): You p...
  E7
I poisoned yours...
           (n.c)
Huh heh, as well.

(JB/KG): Noooooooooo!!!

Interlude:

A  F  G (x2)
   No!

Coda:

(Faster Tempo):

A
 City, city, city,
F
 City, city,
G
 City, shitty.
A
 Shitty, city, shitty,
F
 Shitty, city,
G
 City, shitty.
A
 Hall, hall, hall,
F            G
 Hall, hall, hall,
      A (n.c)
Hall, hall.

Interlude:

A  F  G, A  c  G (x2)

A
 People inside me,
    F
Are askin' me to,
G              A
 Smoke up City Hall,
        c
'Cos no one here,
   G
Is talkin'.
A
 People inside me,
    F
Are askin' me to,
G              A
 Smoke up City Hall,
        c
'Cos no one here,
   G
Is rockin'.

A
 People inside me,
    F
Are askin' me to,
G              A
 Smoke up City Hall,
       c
'Cause everyone is,
G
 Rock-'em Sock-'em,
A
 Robots,
F
 Everyone is,
G
 Rock-'em Sock-'em,
A
 Robots,
F
 Everyone is,
G
 Rock-'em Sock-'em,
A
 Go! Oh!

Outro:

F  G  A


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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   E       B       Ab      A*      A       F       G      Amaj7

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 022100  x24442  466544  577655  x02220  133211  244322  x02120

   A7      D       Dm      E7     F#m     Dmaj7    c

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 x02223  xx0232  xx0231  020100  244222  xx0222  x32010


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2005
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)

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