Intro: N.C. (Black-key glissando on piano)
D# | | | |A/B|
D#m | |E |F# E |
B D#m E F#
The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload
B D#m
And nobody's gonna go to school today she's gonna
E F#
Make them stay at home
E F#
And daddy doesn't understand it
B E
He always said she was good as gold
E
And he can see no reasons cos there are no reasons
E F# F#6 F#7
What reasons do you need to be shown
B B/A#
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
E/G# F#
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
B [TO CODA] B/A#
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
E F#
I wanna shoot Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh
B D#m E F# E
The whole day down
The Telex machine is kept so clean
And it types to a waiting world
And Mother feels so shocked Father's world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to their own little girl
Sweet sixteen ain't that peachy keen
No it ain't so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
E F#
I wanna shoot Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh
D#sus4 D#m D#sus4 D#m B Bsus4
The whole day down down down shoot it all down
(Instrumental break):
B |D#m | |E |F# |Badd2 | | |
And all the
B D#m
Playing's stopped in the playground now
E F#
She wants to play with her toys a while
B D#m
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
E F#
And the lesson today is how to die
E F#sus4
And then the bullhorn crackles and the captain tackles
B E/B B E
With the problems and the how's and why's
E E
And he can see no reasons cos there are no reasons
E F# F#6 F#7
What reason do you need to die die Oooh and
(repeat first verse/chorus, until CODA):
B B/A# E/G#
Why I don't like I don't like Tell me why I don't like
F# B D#m E
Mondays tell me why I don't like I don't like tell me why
F# B D#m
I don't like Mondays tell me why I don't like Mondays
E
I want to shoot Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh
N.C. (F#) (E) (A#m) B
The whole day down
D#m E F# B
Oo-oo-ooh oo-oo-ooh oooooh