Chords for Devo - "Whip It" + interview (Merv Griffin Show 1980)

[N] Right now we've got a group of musicians who are riding the crest of the new wave [Gbm] rock music with their latest [G] album called [F] Freedom of Choice.
Would you greet D.Vo?
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_ _ _ _ Great champion! _
_ _ _ Give the baton slam _
_ _ _ Step out of the way _
[A] _ _ [D] _ Break your mama's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ bone
Eat it while she's whippin'
Before the green fence out too long
Eat it while she's whippin' _
Something's goin' wrong
Eat it while she's whippin' _
[C] _ Now [G] whip it
_ Eat the [D] shade
_ Shake [C] it up
_ Get straight _ [G] Go forward
Move [D] ahead
Not too [C] dejected
It's not too late
[Eb] To whip it
[G] _ Whip it good
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When a good time turns around
You must whip it
Everyone never let on
Unless you whip it
No one gets away
Until they whip it
_ [G] _ _ _ [B] I say whip it
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ [Eb] Whip it good
[G] _ _ _ _ [Ab] I say whip it
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] Whip it good _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] Great champion!
_ _ _ _ Give the baton slam
_ _ _ Step out of the way
_ _ _ _ Break your [A] mama's back
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_ When a problem comes on
You must whip it
Before [Em] the green fence [D] out too long
Eat it while she's whippin'
When something's goin' wrong
Eat it while she's whippin'
_ [C] _ Now [G] whip it
Eat the [D] shade
_ Shake [C] it up [B] Get [C] straight _ [G] Go forward
[D] Move ahead
[A] Not too [C]
dejected
[Eb] It's not too [C] late
To whip [G] it
_ Eat the [D] shade
Shake it [C] up
Get straight
_ Go [G] forward
_ Move [D] ahead
[A] Not too [C] dejected
[B] It's not too [C] late
To whip it
_ [G] Whip it good
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[F] It's hard to believe, Cal, this group came out [Bb] of Akron, Ohio.
With a [Ebm] tire. _ _ _
_ [Ab] They came out of there by popular request, wasn't it, Jerry?
Yeah, it was [B] pollution.
They _ _ [A] paid us to quit playing in Akron.
Are you [C] a man? _ _
[Bbm] Sure they are.
What do you think, these are space cadets?
[Bb] Well, _ that's an inside thing. _ _ _
[Bbm] Jerry, how did [Bb] Akron take it to Devo? _ _
_ _ _ Um_ _ _
Jerry?
Not like a tire to the [Eb] road.
No. _
Hardly at all.
_ We really were [Bbm] paid to quit playing in a club there.
They paid us double [Bb] if we'd only quit.
Really?
_ Was it a rough town to break in this [C] _ _ group?
Well, [Bb] _ yeah, everybody would basically fall [Ab] asleep outside the doors of the clubs
[Bb] because they couldn't quite make it in.
[Eb] Aha.
_ [D] _ _ No violence ever while you were playing?
[Ab] No. _ _ _
Only in [Bb] Cleveland.
_ Cleveland gave you a bad time?
[A] Cleveland's very awake.
They throw wine bottles, [Bb] beer bottles, really [A] rough. Very far.
And [Eb] is that why you wear the [D] shields, huh?
That's how it started.
We wore helmets that [G] night.
[Bb] Aha.
It was a Halloween _ [Bbm] party.
This is the truth.
Yeah?
This is not funny.
It was _ a [Bb] Halloween party?
Halloween party.
Everyone was dressed as _ [A] _ _ [Ab] Frankensteins, humpbacks, _ _ ghosts, [D] _ [A] witches,
and they were drunk,
and [Am] they started throwing beer bottles at [Ab] us.
My [Bb] word.
Those [Bbm] weren't the critics?
_ No, those were the people at the parties.
Aha.
[G] _ Well, then, in what [Bb] town did your greatest success come?
_ Well, I can't think of anything greater than that.
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I can't either, as a matter of fact. _ _
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