Chords for New Jobs For America (I Blame The Teachers) by Uncle Bonsai (special to Wisconsin teachers)
Tempo:
101.525 bpm
Chords used:
D
C
Em
G
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
From the streets of Seattle to the people of Madison, Uncle Banzai.
[Em] So we [C] rounded up the [G] lawyers and we held [D] them without [Em] bail.
And the [C] country came together [G] for the [D] battle.
[Em] Cause when you [C] meet a common [G] enemy you never really fail.
By rounding up [C] [G] unpopulars like that's all.
[Em] So the [C] doctors and the [G] nurses were the next in line to go.
With their leeches and their left-foot surgeries.
[Em]
So we hired [C] a little young [G] boy from the way to [D] name our children.
[Em] And the hard work [C] never really [D] paid off.
[G] I blame the teachers.
The [C] teachers.
[D] Especially that one from second [G] grade.
He was that B-2.
I can't believe [A] the money that [Em] she needed.
[C] Do you know at whose nose she was a [D] great pretender?
[Am] And who she had a [D] socialist old tender.
[Em] I blame the [C] teachers.
[G] [D] [Em] And the bridges [C] and the tunnels [G] [D] disassembled or destroyed.
[Em] Meant we'd never [C] have to travel [D] far land.
[Em] So the [C] family remembered [G] our equality [D] and closeness.
[Em] That it is a [C] four individual [D] or a family.
[Em] So we gassed it [C] up the courtrooms and [D] the [A] classrooms and the [Em] boardrooms.
And we gathered [C] up whatever we [G] could burn.
[Em] And the scientists [C]
surrendered [G] to the [D] movement and the [Em] moment.
Cause they knew that [C] there was nothing left [D] to learn.
[G] I blame the teachers.
Especially [D] that one from [G] second grade.
I can't [D] believe she wanted [Em] to be paid.
[C] To stand out in the union [D] line and play me.
[Am] To think she needed more than [D] five weeks free.
I [F#] have an earful and an eyeful.
[G] Got a red bull and a rifle.
[A] Got the high ground on my Bible [D] and a special set of skills.
[B] I got a hand print for revival.
[C] And a recipe for survival.
[D] It's a backpack and a [E] Bible.
And a case of denial.
[C#] So we took the [A] chips and dialed.
That word will [E] be outdated.
[F#m] So we learned to [A] live without the [E] endless hum.
[E]
[F#m] And we shattered [A] all the factories.
[E] That is except for Apple.
[F#m] We may be ignorant but [E] we're not dumb.
[A] I blame the teachers.
[E] Especially that one who [A] tried to teach us.
[E] He was reviled around the class.
[A] I blame the teachers.
Always trying [E] to make us free.
[A] Let's make a change.
So much sense [E] of history.
[F#m] I blame the teachers.
[A] [E]
Woo! Woo!
[D#]
[Em] So we [C] rounded up the [G] lawyers and we held [D] them without [Em] bail.
And the [C] country came together [G] for the [D] battle.
[Em] Cause when you [C] meet a common [G] enemy you never really fail.
By rounding up [C] [G] unpopulars like that's all.
[Em] So the [C] doctors and the [G] nurses were the next in line to go.
With their leeches and their left-foot surgeries.
[Em]
So we hired [C] a little young [G] boy from the way to [D] name our children.
[Em] And the hard work [C] never really [D] paid off.
[G] I blame the teachers.
The [C] teachers.
[D] Especially that one from second [G] grade.
He was that B-2.
I can't believe [A] the money that [Em] she needed.
[C] Do you know at whose nose she was a [D] great pretender?
[Am] And who she had a [D] socialist old tender.
[Em] I blame the [C] teachers.
[G] [D] [Em] And the bridges [C] and the tunnels [G] [D] disassembled or destroyed.
[Em] Meant we'd never [C] have to travel [D] far land.
[Em] So the [C] family remembered [G] our equality [D] and closeness.
[Em] That it is a [C] four individual [D] or a family.
[Em] So we gassed it [C] up the courtrooms and [D] the [A] classrooms and the [Em] boardrooms.
And we gathered [C] up whatever we [G] could burn.
[Em] And the scientists [C]
surrendered [G] to the [D] movement and the [Em] moment.
Cause they knew that [C] there was nothing left [D] to learn.
[G] I blame the teachers.
Especially [D] that one from [G] second grade.
I can't [D] believe she wanted [Em] to be paid.
[C] To stand out in the union [D] line and play me.
[Am] To think she needed more than [D] five weeks free.
I [F#] have an earful and an eyeful.
[G] Got a red bull and a rifle.
[A] Got the high ground on my Bible [D] and a special set of skills.
[B] I got a hand print for revival.
[C] And a recipe for survival.
[D] It's a backpack and a [E] Bible.
And a case of denial.
[C#] So we took the [A] chips and dialed.
That word will [E] be outdated.
[F#m] So we learned to [A] live without the [E] endless hum.
[E]
[F#m] And we shattered [A] all the factories.
[E] That is except for Apple.
[F#m] We may be ignorant but [E] we're not dumb.
[A] I blame the teachers.
[E] Especially that one who [A] tried to teach us.
[E] He was reviled around the class.
[A] I blame the teachers.
Always trying [E] to make us free.
[A] Let's make a change.
So much sense [E] of history.
[F#m] I blame the teachers.
[A] [E]
Woo! Woo!
[D#]
Key:
D
C
Em
G
A
D
C
Em
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ From the streets of Seattle to the people of Madison, Uncle Banzai.
[Em] _ _ So we [C] rounded up the [G] lawyers and we held [D] them without [Em] bail.
And the [C] country came together [G] for the [D] battle.
[Em] Cause when you [C] meet a common [G] enemy you never really fail.
By rounding up [C] _ [G] unpopulars like that's all.
[Em] So the [C] doctors and the [G] nurses were the next in line to go.
With their leeches and their left-foot surgeries.
_ _ [Em]
So we hired [C] a little young [G] boy from the way to [D] name our children.
[Em] And the hard work [C] never really [D] paid off.
[G] I blame the teachers.
The [C] teachers.
[D] Especially that one from second [G] grade.
He was that B-2.
I can't believe [A] the money that [Em] she needed.
[C] Do you know at whose nose she was a [D] great pretender?
_ [Am] And who she had a [D] socialist old tender.
[Em] I blame the [C] teachers.
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ [Em] And the bridges [C] and the tunnels [G] [D] disassembled or destroyed.
[Em] Meant we'd never [C] have to travel [D] far land.
_ [Em] So the [C] family remembered [G] our equality [D] and closeness.
[Em] That it is a [C] four individual [D] or a family.
_ [Em] So we gassed it [C] up the courtrooms and [D] the [A] classrooms and the [Em] boardrooms.
And we gathered [C] up whatever we [G] could burn.
_ [Em] And the scientists [C]
surrendered [G] to the [D] movement and the [Em] moment.
Cause they knew that [C] there was nothing left [D] to learn.
[G] I blame the teachers.
_ Especially [D] that one from [G] second grade.
_ I can't [D] believe she wanted [Em] to be paid.
[C] To stand out in the union [D] line and play me.
_ [Am] To think she needed more than [D] five weeks free.
I [F#] have an earful and an eyeful.
[G] Got a red bull and a rifle.
[A] Got the high ground on my Bible [D] and a special set of skills.
[B] I got a hand print for revival.
[C] And a recipe for survival.
[D] It's a backpack and a [E] Bible.
And a case of denial.
[C#] So we took the [A] chips and dialed.
That word will [E] be outdated.
[F#m] So we learned to [A] live without the [E] endless hum.
[E] _
[F#m] And we shattered [A] all the factories.
[E] That is except for Apple.
[F#m] We may be ignorant but [E] we're not dumb.
[A] I blame the teachers.
_ _ [E] Especially that one who [A] tried to teach us.
[E] He was reviled around the class.
[A] I blame the teachers.
_ Always trying [E] to make us free.
[A] Let's make a change.
_ So much sense [E] of history.
[F#m] I blame the teachers.
_ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ Woo! Woo! _ _
_ [D#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ From the streets of Seattle to the people of Madison, Uncle Banzai.
[Em] _ _ So we [C] rounded up the [G] lawyers and we held [D] them without [Em] bail.
And the [C] country came together [G] for the [D] battle.
[Em] Cause when you [C] meet a common [G] enemy you never really fail.
By rounding up [C] _ [G] unpopulars like that's all.
[Em] So the [C] doctors and the [G] nurses were the next in line to go.
With their leeches and their left-foot surgeries.
_ _ [Em]
So we hired [C] a little young [G] boy from the way to [D] name our children.
[Em] And the hard work [C] never really [D] paid off.
[G] I blame the teachers.
The [C] teachers.
[D] Especially that one from second [G] grade.
He was that B-2.
I can't believe [A] the money that [Em] she needed.
[C] Do you know at whose nose she was a [D] great pretender?
_ [Am] And who she had a [D] socialist old tender.
[Em] I blame the [C] teachers.
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ [Em] And the bridges [C] and the tunnels [G] [D] disassembled or destroyed.
[Em] Meant we'd never [C] have to travel [D] far land.
_ [Em] So the [C] family remembered [G] our equality [D] and closeness.
[Em] That it is a [C] four individual [D] or a family.
_ [Em] So we gassed it [C] up the courtrooms and [D] the [A] classrooms and the [Em] boardrooms.
And we gathered [C] up whatever we [G] could burn.
_ [Em] And the scientists [C]
surrendered [G] to the [D] movement and the [Em] moment.
Cause they knew that [C] there was nothing left [D] to learn.
[G] I blame the teachers.
_ Especially [D] that one from [G] second grade.
_ I can't [D] believe she wanted [Em] to be paid.
[C] To stand out in the union [D] line and play me.
_ [Am] To think she needed more than [D] five weeks free.
I [F#] have an earful and an eyeful.
[G] Got a red bull and a rifle.
[A] Got the high ground on my Bible [D] and a special set of skills.
[B] I got a hand print for revival.
[C] And a recipe for survival.
[D] It's a backpack and a [E] Bible.
And a case of denial.
[C#] So we took the [A] chips and dialed.
That word will [E] be outdated.
[F#m] So we learned to [A] live without the [E] endless hum.
[E] _
[F#m] And we shattered [A] all the factories.
[E] That is except for Apple.
[F#m] We may be ignorant but [E] we're not dumb.
[A] I blame the teachers.
_ _ [E] Especially that one who [A] tried to teach us.
[E] He was reviled around the class.
[A] I blame the teachers.
_ Always trying [E] to make us free.
[A] Let's make a change.
_ So much sense [E] of history.
[F#m] I blame the teachers.
_ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ Woo! Woo! _ _
_ [D#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _