20TH CENTURY MAN- The Kinks



A A A(move A shape from down a fret back) A D D A E E



 A (riff 2x)           A D G D G D A (riff 2x)



 A                                              E

This is the age of machinery, a mechanical nightmare

  A

A wonderful world of technology

 D                 G        D        A  (riff)

Napalm, hydrogen bomb, biological warfare

 A                                            E

This is the twentieth century, too much aggrevation

  A

It's the age of insanity

  D                      G              D          A (riff)

What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jeruselem?

 A                G G A                    G G

Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned

       D      (no chord)                                         A(riff)

I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, don't wanna be here



A    D G D G D A (riff)



A                              G  G#  A

My momma says she can't understand me

                  E

Can't see me motivation

 A

Just give me some security

          D                G             D      A (riff)

I'm a paranoid schitzoid product of the 20th century

 A                                G G# A

You keep all your smart modern writers

                   E

Give me William Shakesphere

 A

You keep all your smart modern painters

 D                    G        D           A (riff)

I'll take Rembrant, Titian, DeVinci and Gainsborough



 A                         G G# A                         G

Girl, we gotta get out of here,  we gotta find a solution

        D         (no chord)                                     A(riff)

I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, don't wanna die here

 A                        G G# A                             G

Well, we gotta get outta here,  we've gotta find a solution

       D    (no chord)                                            A

I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, don't wanna be here



BRIDGE:

        Em                A5      Em             G G/F# Em

I was born in a welfare state, ruled by bureaucracy

    D                   Am          C      C/B       A5

Controlled by civil servants and people dressed in grey

 A5         Am  A5          G G/F# Em

Got no privacy, got no liberty

          D                  A5            C   C/B     A     (riff)

Cos the twentieth century people took it all away from me



RIFF #2 FOUR TIMES





A (no chord)                    G D A

Don't wanna get myself shot down

(no chord)                      G D A

By some trigger happy policeman

(no chord)                      G D

Gotta keep a hold of my sanity

         D        F      C          G          A

I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna die here



RIFF #2 FOUR TIMES



(no chord)                  G  D  A

My mama says she can't understand me

 (no chord)             G  D  A

Can't see my motivation

 (no chord)           G D

Ain't got no security

          D        F     C          G           A

I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna die here



RIFF #2 (repeat ...)



I don't want twentieth century man, I don't want twentieth century man

I don't want twentieth century man, I don't want twentieth century man

A                           G D A

This is the twentieth century

                      G D A

Too much aggrevation

                          G D

This is the age of insanity

          D        F     C         G           A

I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here





RIFF:

    'A' chord

----------------------------|

-------------------3-3-3-2--|

-------------------2-2-2-2--|   repeat

-------------------4-4-4-2--|

----0-5p0-5p0---0-----------|

--------------0-------------|



RIFF #2:

  A           G      G/F#    Em

------------------------------------|

----3-3-2---------0------0----------|

----2-2-2---------0------0----------|

----4-4-2---0---0------0------0-----|

--0-------0-------------------------|

--------------3------2------0-------|



NOTE: Pick notes on the bridge, strum all other times.  The riffs are

approximate, to give the general idea.  The bridge has been altered a bit

to make it sound better for guitar.  This is the way the song goes in my

mind.

(from Muswell Hilbillies, 1971)