Chords for 🎵 Randy Newman - Short People REACTION

This song is kind of messed up, but if it was like about kids, I feel like it would actually be kind of like funny.
[C] Oh, okay. _
All [N] right, today we're checking out Randy Newman.
We're listening to the song Short People.
Let's get into it.
My motivation is to change the course of western music.
I haven't liked the way it's been going, so I decided I'd make another record.
Can I give all these people the finger?
_ Are we ready?
_ _ [G] _
_ _ _ Okay, I'm real sorry, Chief.
[Eb] Now they know what we have to do.
One, two, [A] one, two, three.
_ [Gbm] _ _ _
[B] _ [A] I'm _ gonna be terrible.
[Eb] My [A] grandfather died.
Okay, I got it now.
I'll figure that out.
One, two, three.
One, two, one, two, three.
_ _ [Gbm] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Gbm] _ _
[B] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] Short people got no [B] reason.
Short [D] people got no [A] reason.
Short people got no [B] reason to live.
[D] Oh, I [A] got it.
Little hand, little [D] eyes.
Walk around telling great big [A] lies.
They got little nose, tiny little [D] teeth.
They wear platform shoes on their nasty little [A] feet.
Well, I [B] don't want no short [A] people.
Don't [Gbm] want no short people.
Don't want no short people around here.
_ _ [Gbm] _ _ [B] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[D] Short [Dbm] people are just the [Bm] same as you [A] and I.
It's [D] a wonderful world.
[A] All men are brothers [Bm] until the day they die.
[A] _
Short people got [B] nobody.
[D] Short people got [E] nobody.
Okay.
All right.
What's he got against short people?
A lot, apparently.
You know, honestly, I was like, this song is kind of messed up, but if it was like about kids,
I feel like it would actually be kind of like funny.
[Eb] Oh, okay.
You know how like kids, it's [A] like, you know, if kids listen to you, like you're a kid and
you're listening to this, it's like, you got small teeth and a small nose.
Like, you know, I feel like he's making fun of like_
Yeah, I mean, I think he's just joking.
But like comedy was different back in the day.
People were probably a lot less sensitive.
Yeah.
So your comedy could be a little edgier and a little rougher, you know?
He's like, got no reason to live.
Like that's as edgy as it gets.
Yeah, like modern day, you can't do comedy.
You'll get canceled.
You do comedy like this.
Right.
You can pretty much like make fun of [A] yourself.
Pretty much.
I wonder if he's short.
I don't know.
I don't think so.
[B] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] We're gonna get you every time.
[A] Well, I don't want no short people.
Don't want no short people.
Don't want [B] no short people [A] out here.
_ [Gbm] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [A] _
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[G] Excellent.
Okay. Hey!
_ [B] Yeah.
You got me [Gm] laughing, don't you?
[E] Yeah.
_ [N] It was, it was pretty good.
I thought so, yeah.
It was a perfect performance.
What you guys doing here?
Well, we're messing around.
We didn't do much of anything.
Yeah.
I was reading the lyrics.
I think it's over.
I switched on these guitars.
I don't think it's over.
Okay!
Okay!
So what'd you think?
[B] You know how they say, like, oh, he was flaming,
like he was roasting.
I feel like he burnt short people to a crisp.
Yeah, it was like a big roast.
It was like a roast song.
It was like he like-
A diss track to short people.
Yeah, he completely incinerated short people.
What is he talking about, like really short people?
I don't know, can you even say the word modern [Ab] day?
I don't know!
Isn't that offensive word to say,
what you used to say, the M word?
Right?
You're talking about that short?
That's like, oh, you're five seven,
like you're short like that.
Right?
You know what I mean?
Right?
I was like, if you replace the word short
with a lot of different things that people are born as,
this is very messed up.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, it's like-
Yes.
I feel like it was very,
it was like, dang.
But I mean, he was [Bbm] joking.
He was joking, but-
That's different than replacing the word
with black people or something.
That's probably what you're thinking,
something like that.
Yeah.
I mean, that's different.
Yeah, but it's still like, [Ab] he's not short,
so like, ah, I don't know.
I don't know how, I don't know.
I mean, it's similar, but it is different.
You know what I mean?
[Bb] Yes.
It's a different history
with short people versus black,
you know what I'm saying?
I guess.
I don't know, I'm just like, dang.
You know what I mean?
That was cold blooded, like-
What if you replaced it with like someone's job?
That's still messed up.
You know?
It's just, it's like, I guess, dark humor, I guess.
Dirty joke, low joke.
It's not everybody's sense of humor,
but I bet [Ab] there's some short people who are offended,
but there's some that think it's funny.
Yeah, I think-
That's just how it always is.
To me, the only situation that's funny is like,
as a kid, because I feel like sometimes kids and adults
have [Bb] this like, beef between each other,
you know what I mean?
And it's just [E] like, ha ha, you have responsibilities.
You know what I mean?
Like kids can be so like, carefree and entitled and [Ab] stuff.
You know?
And so I feel like it's like a jab back at kids.
Like, I kind of like that.
[G] I don't know.
_ Tell me, man, what do you know?
[Ab] Me [G] and my boys on the road.
[Ab] You need to go.
She told [G] me, boy, you need to go.
[Ab] Like, I don't know.