Chords for The Rebel - Allan Sherman

_ _ _ _ _ _ He stood 4 foot 8 and wore a beatnik beard.
He had big thick glasses and looked real weird
He weighed 98 pounds, but a whole nation feared [N] the rebel
_ [C] He had a chick named Rhonda [C] the college [D] prize
[Am] Her long [C] hair hung [A] down over [C] her eyes and a half Barbra Streisand and half [E] Joan Bible.
[Am] She dug the rebel
[C] _ _ [Dm]
well
they met one day [C] at a pop [A] art bash [D] between a painting [Eb] of a can [C] of
Suck a tash [Gbm] and a high camp sculpture [A] of a pile of trash.
[Dm] It was groovy
[C] _ _
Rhonda dug the rebel and the rebel [Ab] dug Rhonda
[Am] So she grabbed her [C] guitar [F] and roared off on his Honda to a discotheque [C] called the [E] Anaconda [C] with the rebel _ _
[D] When the fruging was over [C] at the discotheque
[A] [D] The rebel [Eb] was a trying [C] to pay his check [A] but his pockets they were empty.
So he yelled.
Oh heck [Dm] heck [C] said the rebel
Well, the Dean walked by just as that [E] occurred he [Am] said you can [C] get expelled for [F] what I've just heard
Don't you realize heck [C] is a four-letter [E] word [Am] you rebel?
_ [G] The rebel [D] said to his old adversary just as long as [Eb] that words [C] in the slang dictionary
I swear by Peter [D] Paul [A] and Mary [Dm] I'll use [G] it _
[D] Furthermore said the rebel [C] I won't let the [E] issue pass [Am] the whole [C] student body's [F] gonna sit down [C] in mass
Besides that way we don't have to go [Ab] to class.
We're [Am] gonna cool [Gb] it
_ [D]
Well the sit [C]-in started about [A] 715 [Dm] the whole [Eb] thing was covered [C] by Time magazine
They even took Batman off the TV [A] screen to [Dm] show the rebel
[C] _ _ _
In the captain of the state [Ab] police
[C] Arresting lots of students [F] for disturbing the peace including his own son [C] his daughter and his niece [Am] and the rebel
[N] _ _
Someone called the governor [C] to see what he [A] could do [Dm] the governor [D] said sorry
[C] But I cannot talk to you [F] because I'm a sitting in [C] at the statehouse to just [Dm] like the rebel
[C] _ _
[Gm] Soon the secondary schools began [E] to rebel
[Am] [C] Kindergarten kids [F] were sitting during show-and-tell then the older generation [C] started sitting down as well, [Am] man.
What a [Bb] protest _
[D] Doctor sat [C] fireman's that [Db] teachers wouldn't teach
[D] People [Eb] sat at home [C] and on the street and on the beach [F] just to sit and I'm waiting [G] for [A] freedom of speech
[Dm] Nobody was [C] talking to anybody
_ There [Ab] wasn't any doubt [Am] the [C] president went on [F] TV to try [C] to pull us out and the president shouted
What the [E] heck's it all [Am] about?
That said the president
[G] _
Soon everyone was [C] saying that [A] they said it [D] everywhere when the rebels sit to [Eb] Rhonda
This is terribly unfair being hip is getting [G] middle-class.
[A] Let's you and I be [Dm] square and they did they squared it [F] up
Rhonda got a [C] haircut the rebel shaved [Am] his beard.
They were [C] married and [F] had children which they subsequently [D] reared
They moved out to the suburbs and they really [Ab] disappeared.
[Dm] Wow, did they conform?
_ [E] Folks build a [Am] statue of the rebel [C] [F] just to prove the people's [A] love
But the public soon [C] forgot [Em] just [E] the pigeons up above
Seem to know the [F] right location
[N] They've all found that statue of the rebel
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