20TH CENTURY MAN- The Kinks
(move shape from down a fret back)
(riff 2x) (riff 2x)
This is the age of machinery, a mechanical nightmare
A wonderful world of technology
(riff)
Napalm, hydrogen bomb, biological warfare
This is the twentieth century, too much aggrevation
It's the age of insanity
(riff)
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jeruselem?
Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned
(no chord) (riff)
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, don't wanna be here
(riff)
My momma says she can't understand me
Can't see me motivation
Just give me some security
(riff)
I'm a paranoid schitzoid product of the 20th century
You keep all your smart modern writers
Give me William Shakesphere
You keep all your smart modern painters
(riff)
I'll take Rembrant, Titian, DeVinci and Gainsborough
Girl, we gotta get out of here, we gotta find a solution
(no chord) (riff)
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, don't wanna die here
Well, we gotta get outta here, we've gotta find a solution
(no chord)
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, don't wanna be here
BRIDGE:
I was born in a welfare state, ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants and people dressed in grey
Got no privacy, got no liberty
(riff)
Cos the twentieth century people took it all away from me
RIFF #2 FOUR TIMES
(no chord)
Don't wanna get myself shot down
(no chord)
By some trigger happy policeman
(no chord)
Gotta keep a hold of my sanity
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna die here
RIFF #2 FOUR TIMES
(no chord)
My mama says she can't understand me
(no chord)
Can't see my motivation
(no chord)
Ain't got no security
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna die here
RIFF #2 (repeat ...)
I don't want twentieth century man, I don't want twentieth century man
I don't want twentieth century man, I don't want twentieth century man
This is the twentieth century
Too much aggrevation
This is the age of insanity
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here
RIFF:
'A' chord
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-------------------3-3-3-2--
-------------------2-2-2-2-- repeat
-------------------4-4-4-2--
----0-5p0-5p0---0-----------
--------------0-------------
RIFF #2:
------------------------------------
----3-3-2---------0------0----------
----2-2-2---------0------0----------
----4-4-2---0---0------0------0-----
--0-------0-------------------------
--------------3------2------0-------
NOTE: Pick notes on the bridge, strum all other times. The riffs are
approximate, to give the general idea. The bridge has been altered a bit
to make it sound better for guitar. This is the way the song goes in my
mind.
(from Muswell Hilbillies, 1971)