Tenacious D (often referred to as "The D" and sometimes introduced as "The Greatest Band in the world. Period.") is an American satirical rock duo formed by musicians and actors Kyle Gass and Jack Black in Los Angeles, California in 1994. Their music fuses vulgar absurdist comedy with rock music in a style that critics have described as "mock rock". The band first gained reputation in 1999, starring in a self-titled HBO TV series. The drumming on
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...CITY HALL... by Tenacious D ---------------...............
*from 'Tenacious D' (2001)*
Verse 1:
EB All you people up there, in City Hall; EB You're fuckin' it up 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:
G#AG#AG#AG#AG# All you mot-her-fuck-ers, in the streets; AG#AG#AG#AG# It's time to rise up, up, up, up, G#AG#AG# Come along children and fuckin' rise!
Interlude: (Faster Tempo)
A, F G (x4)
Chorus 1:
AFG Lots of times, when me and K-G are watchin'; AFGA All the fuckin' shit that's going down at City Hall. FGA We get the feeling we should fuck shit up, FG Yeah, we should fuckin' start a riot.
AFGAFG A riot!
Chorus 2:
A We have 'em screaming in the streets, FGA We have 'em tippin' over shit, FGA And breakin' fuckin' windows of small busines-ses, FG And settin' fuckin' fires! AFG And settin' fuckin' fires! AFG And settin' fuckin' fires!
Interlude:
A, C G (x4)
Middle 8: (Slower Tempo)
AAmaj7 And then after the smoke is cleared, A7 And the rubble has been swept away, DDm Me and KG will peek out our heads. A We've been watching the riots on a monitor, DmE7 Twenty floors below sea level... from a bunker.
AAmaj7A7 We did it Rage-Kage; we beat the bastards of City Hall! DDm Hahaha! But now what will we do? A We must rebuild. DmE7 But who will lead us in the rebuilding process?
AAmaj7 Man, it's got to be someone with the know-how, A7 And the elbow grease to lead us to a new land. D No, not me and KG, we don't have, F#mG The cognitive capacity to lead... alright, we'll do it!
E7 (n.C) Amaj7 We'll lead as two kings... we'll lead as two kings. Dmaj7Amaj7 Aah-haa... (two kings, we'll lead as two kings). Dmaj7Amaj7 Ah-ha ah-how, we'll lead as two kings.
Amaj7Dmaj7 The first decree is to legalize Marijuana. Amaj7Dmaj7 The tyranny and the bullshit's gone on too long. F#m You old fuckin' shrivs who blocked it's legalization; G You're banished, from the land!
E7 (n.C) Amaj7 We'll lead as two kings... we'll lead as two kings. Dmaj7Amaj7 Aah-haa... (two kings, we'll lead as two kings). Dmaj7Amaj7 Ah-ha ah-how, we'll lead as two kings.
Amaj7Dmaj7Amaj7 The second decree; no more pollution, Dmaj7 No more car exhaust, or ocean dumpage. F#mG From now on, we will travel in tubes!
E7 (n.C) Amaj7 We'll lead as two kings... we'll fuckin' lead as two kings.
Dmaj7Amaj7 Get the scientists working on the tube tech-nology, immediately. Dmaj7 (Tube tech-nology). Chop, chop, let's go.
Amaj7Dmaj7Amaj7 Third decree; no more... rich people and poor people. F#m From now on, we will all be the same... G Umm, I dunno, I gotta think about that...
E7 (n.C) Amaj7 We'll lead as two kings... we'll lead as two kings.
Dmaj7 (JB): Oh my God. (KG): Aah... what? Amaj7 (JB): Dude, the red phone is flashing. (KG): Oh, yeah. Dmaj7 (JB): Let me scoop that up. Hel-lo? Two Kings. (KG): Who is it? Amaj7Dmaj7 (JB): What?! No! 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?
Amaj7Dmaj7 Al-right, emergency meeting of Parliament. Amaj7 All right Parliament, I know this is fucked up, Dmaj7Amaj7 But Rage, he can't be king any more. Dmaj7Amaj7 Dudes, he's encroaching on my de-crees! Dmaj7 Seriously, let's make him Duke, a kick ass Duke. F#mG Or leader formerly known as king, but... uh-oh, he's comin' back...
E7 (n.C) Amaj7 We'll lead as two kings, oh yes, we'll really lead as two kings.
(KG): Uh, dude? (JB): Rage. Dmaj7 (KG): I went all over Idaho... (JB): Yeah? Amaj7 (KG): Uh, plenty of potatoes everywhere. (JB): What? There was no famine? Dmaj7 (KG): Yeah, there was 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. Amaj7Dmaj7F#m (JB): Long live me. I'm sorry; I poisoned your wine. (KG): What? G [JB:] For the good of the land. E7 (n.C) (KG): You p... I poisoned yours...huh heh, as well.
(JB/KG): No!...
Interlude:
AFG (x2) No!
Coda: (Faster Tempo)
AFG City, city, city, city, city, city, shitty. AFG Shitty, city, shitty, shitty, city, city, shitty. AFGA (n.C) Hall, hall, hall, hall, hall, hall, hall, hall.
Interlude:
AF G, ACG (x2)
AFGA People inside me, are askin' me to smoke up City Hall, CG 'Cos no one here is talkin'. AFGA People inside me, are askin' me to smoke up City Hall, CG 'Cos no one here is rockin'.
AFGA People inside me, are askin' me to smoke up City Hall, CGA 'Cos everyone is Rock-'em Sock-'em Robots, FGA Everyone is Rock-'em Sock-'em Robots, FGA Everyone is Rock-'em Sock-'em, go! oh!