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Cant Keep Johnny Down

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They Might Be Giants (TMBG) are an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 in Brooklyn, New York, United States by John Flansburgh (vocals, guitar) and John Linnell (vocals, keyboards, accordion). During TMBG's early years Flansburgh and Linnell were frequently accompanied by a drum machine. In the early nineties, TMBG became a full band. Currently, the members of TMBG are Flansburgh, Linnell, Marty Beller, Dan Miller, and Danny Weinkauf. They are best known for an unconventional and experimental style of alternative music.

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I have to give credit to Antgeth who tabbed this. Got it from the tmbg wiki.

Intro/Verse lick (outro lick played one octave down)
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G D C
G D C

G D C G D
Outnumbered a million to one
C G D C
All of the dicks in this dick town
G D C
Can't keep Johnny down
G D C G D
M-e-n piled up in a towering mound
C G D C
None of them once has found a way
G D C
To keep Johnny down

A Em
Spending days by myself

Remembering slights
A B
I'm not a monument to justice
C
Plus which I don't forget a face

G D
And they can't (down, down, down)
C G D
Can't keep Johnny down (down, down, down)
C G D
They haven't yet built the man (down, down, down)
C G D C
That will keep old Johnny down (down, down, down)

Em A C D G C A D

G D
Some dude
C G D
Hitting golf balls on the moon
C G D
Bathroom in his pants
C G D C
And he thinks he's better than m-e
G D C G D
I'm pointing a finger at my own face
C G
They can't know what's in here
D C G D C
And they can't keep Johnny down

A
Beneath my dignity
Em
To flip off the guy
A B
When he pulls up alongside
C
To say my gas cap is unscrewed

G D
And they can't (down, down, down)
C G D
Can't keep Johnny down (down, down, down)
C G D
They haven't yet built the man (down, down, down)
C G D C
That will keep old Johnny down (down, down, down)

G D
And they don't (down, down, down)
C G D
Don't know what I've seen (down, down, down)
C G D
Can't know what's in here (down, down, down)
C G D C
And they can't keep Johnny down (down, down, down)

Em A C D G C A D

G D C Am G