Mtv Get Off The Air

	  		    M.T.V. - GET OFF THE AIR  by Dead Kennedys 
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   (Biafra) 
  
Intro:  F#    B  C#  (2x bass only) 
  
F#                 B      C# 
Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair 
      F# 
Flame up the herb 
     B        C#  
Woof down the beer  (2x and continues on background) 
  
  
(click!) 
  
F#                 B  C# 
Hi! I'm your video DJ 
  F#                   B             C# 
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes 
F#             B        C#                  F#   B  C# 
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go 
  
   F#        B        C# 
My job is to help destroy 
       F#            B   C# 
What's left of your imagination 
   F#          B       C# 
By feeding you endless doses 
   F#                    B       C# 
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage 
  
   F#           B    C# 
So don't create Be sedate 
     F#                    B              C# 
Be a vegetable at home And thwack on that dial 
   F#                   B          C# 
If we have our way even you will believe  (Fun fun fun... ends) 
F# 
This is the future of rock and roll 
  
(M.T.V GET OFF THE AIR!) 
  
    F#              B A 
How far will you go 
    F#                 B A 
How low will you stoop 
   B               A               B            A 
To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill 
  
       F#                             B A 
You've turned rock and roll rebellion 
     F#                 B A 
Into Pat Boone sedation 
B           A              B           D 
Making sure nothing's left of the imagination 
  
   C#     B 
   M.T.V. Get off the 
   C#     B 
   M.T.V. Get off the 
   C#     B           F# 
   M.T.V. Get off the air  (2x) 
  
          E           F# 
          Get off the air 
  
F#                     B A F#                   B A 
See the latest rejects     from the muppet show 
B                        A 
Wag their tits and their dicks 
        B            A 
As they lip-synch on screen 
  
        F# 
There's something I don't like 
 B    A F#                     B A 
About a band who always smiles 
  B         A 
Another tax write-off 
         B                   D 
For some schmuck who doesn't care 
  
  M.T.V. Get off the air... 
  
         Get off the air  
         Get off the air  
                     F# F E D# C# 
         Get off the air  
  
  
(bass break - following line twice: 1st time with bass only, 2nd time with 
 guitar playing chords above) 
  
  
  C#       B        C#       B        F#       E        F#       E    
   
g --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------| 
d --------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|2\1-----|4-4-6-4-|2\1-----|  
a 4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|----4-2-| 
e ----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------| 
  
  
(and this once) 
  
  
  C#       B        C#       B        F#       E        C# 
  
g --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------| 
d --------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|2\1-----|4-------|--------|  
a 4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|--------| 
e ----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------| 
  
  
C#m  B  A  G#   (2x trumpet or something) 
  
    C#    B 
And so it was 
    C#                B 
Our beloved corporate gods 
F#             E          F#    E 
Claimed they created rock video 
C#             B              C#       B 
Allowing it to sink as low in one year 
   F#         E         C# 
As commercial TV has in 25 
  
C#m                      B 
"It's the new frontier," they say 
     A                       G# 
It's wide open, anything can happen 
    C#m 
But you've got a lot of nerve 
            B 
To call yourself a pioneer 
                A 
When you're too god-*** conservative 
        G# 
To take real chances. 
  
C#        B  
Tin-eared    
      C#    B         F# 
Graph-paper brained accountants 
E                F#   E 
Instead of music fans 
C#           B              C#               B 
Call all the shots at giant record companies now 
    F#              E         C# 
The lowest common denominator rules 
  
C#m 
Forget honesty 
B 
Forget creativity 
    A 
The dumbest buy the mostest 
           G# 
That's the name of the game 
  
    C#m 
But sales are slumping 
    B 
And no one will say why 
A                                     G# 
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!? 
  
C#       B           F# 
M.T.V. - Get off the air! 
  
F# 
NOW! 
  
  
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Some chords may be missing in the fast part and the bass line probably 
isn't very accurate. At least it's played higher, I think. Corrections 
are naturally welcome.