Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys - Get Off The Air guitar tab

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From: juhkivij@utu.fi (Juha Kivijarvi)

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M.T.V. - GET OFF THE AIR by Dead Kennedys

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(Biafra)

Intro: F# B C# (2x bass only)

F# B C#

Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair

F#

Flame up the herb

B C#

Woof down the beer (2x and continues on background)

(click!)

F# B C#

Hi! I'm your video DJ

F# B C#

I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes

F# B C# F# B C#

I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go

F# B C#

My job is to help destroy

F# B C#

What's left of your imagination

F# B C#

By feeding you endless doses

F# B C#

Of sugar-coated mindless garbage

F# B C#

So don't create Be sedate

F# B C#

Be a vegetable at home And thwack on that dial

F# B C#

If we have our way even you will believe (Fun fun fun... ends)

F#

This is the future of rock and roll

(M.T.V GET OFF THE AIR!)

F# B A

How far will you go

F# B A

How low will you stoop

B A B A

To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill

F# B A

You've turned rock and roll rebellion

F# B A

Into Pat Boone sedation

B A B D

Making sure nothing's left of the imagination

C# B

M.T.V. Get off the

C# B

M.T.V. Get off the

C# B F#

M.T.V. Get off the air (2x)

E F#

Get off the air

F# B A F# B A

See the latest rejects from the muppet show

B A

Wag their tits and their dicks

B A

As they lip-synch on screen

F#

There's something I don't like

B A F# B A

About a band who always smiles

B A

Another tax write-off

B D

For some schmuck who doesn't care

M.T.V. Get off the air...

Get off the air

Get off the air

F# F E D# C#

Get off the air

(bass break - following line twice: 1st time with bass only, 2nd time with

guitar playing chords above)

C# B C# B F# E F# E

g --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|

d --------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|2\1-----|4-4-6-4-|2\1-----|

a 4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|----4-2-|

e ----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|

(and this once)

C# B C# B F# E C#

g --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|

d --------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|2\1-----|4-------|--------|

a 4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|--------|

e ----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|

C#m B A G# (2x trumpet or something)

C# B

And so it was

C# B

Our beloved corporate gods

F# E F# E

Claimed they created rock video

C# B C# B

Allowing it to sink as low in one year

F# E C#

As commercial TV has in 25

C#m B

"It's the new frontier," they say

A G#

It's wide open, anything can happen

C#m

But you've got a lot of nerve

B

To call yourself a pioneer

A

When you're too god-damn conservative

G#

To take real chances.

C# B

Tin-eared

C# B F#

Graph-paper brained accountants

E F# E

Instead of music fans

C# B C# B

Call all the shots at giant record companies now

F# E C#

The lowest common denominator rules

C#m

Forget honesty

B

Forget creativity

A

The dumbest buy the mostest

G#

That's the name of the game

C#m

But sales are slumping

B

And no one will say why

A G#

Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?

C# B F#

M.T.V. - Get off the air!

F#

NOW!

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Some chords may be missing in the fast part and the bass line probably

isn't very accurate. At least it's played higher, I think. Corrections

are naturally welcome.

Juha Kivijarvi

juhkivij@utu.fi

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