Intro: E   F# F#   E E

Verse:
    B              D#m                E               F#
The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload,
    B                    D#m
And nobody's gonna go to school today, she’s gonna
E                 F#
Make them stay at home,
    E                  F#
And daddy doesn't understand it,
          B            B       E
He always said she was good as gold.
           E                         E
And he can see no reasons, cos there are no reasons,
     E                         F#    F#7
What reasons do you need to be shown?

Chorus:
        B                B
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        E                 F#
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        B                B
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        E                  F#
I wanna shoot, Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh,
              B      D#m   E    F# F#   E E
The whole day down.

Verse:
    B                D#m
The Telex machine is kept so clean,
       E                  F#
And it types to a waiting world,
           B                          D#m
And Mother feels so shocked; Father's world is rocked,
          E                      F#
And their thoughts turn to their own little girl.
E                        F#
Sweet sixteen ain't that peachy keen,
       B                   E
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
         E                        E
They can see no reasons cos there are no reasons
     E              F#   F#7
What reasons do you need?

Chorus:
        B                B
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        E                 F#
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        B                B
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        E                  F#
I wanna shoot, Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh,
              D#sus4   D#m     D#sus4   D#m            B     Bsus4 B
The whole day down,   down,  down,    shoot it all down...

Interlude:
    D#sus4  D#m
    D#sus4  D#m
    E  F#
    B

Verse:
-B-
And all the
B                        D#m
Playing’s stopped in the playground, now.
    E                      F#    F# F#
She wants to play with her toys a while.
    B                      D#m
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
        E               F#   F#  F#
And the lesson today is how to die.
             E                          F#sus4
And then the bullhorn crackles, and the captain tackles,
         B                E     B   E
With the problems and the how's and why's
           E                         E
And he can see no reasons, cos there are no reasons
     E                     F#         F#7
What reason do you need to die, die? Ooohh

Chorus:
        B                B
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        E                 F#
Tell me why I don't like Mondays,
        B               B                        E                  F#
Tell me why I don’t like, I don’t like, -tell me why- I don’t like Mondays
        B                D#m                      E                 F#
Tell me why, I don’t like, I don’t like -tell me why- I don’t like Mondays,
        B                D#m
Tell me why I don’t like Mondays,
          E                  F#
I want to shoot, Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh...
                 B
The. Whole. Day. Down...


D#m          E          F#      B
-Oo-oo-ooh, oo-oo-ooh, ooooooh.-