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)

AA Piano Chord 
                                              EE Piano Chord 

This is the age of machinery, a mechanical nightmare
AA Piano Chord 

A wonderful world of technology
D                 G        D        A  (riff)
Napalm, hydrogen bomb, biological warfare
AA Piano Chord 
                                            EE Piano Chord 

This is the twentieth century, too much aggrevation
AA Piano Chord 

It's the age of insanity
D                      G              D          A (riff)
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jeruselem?
AA Piano Chord 
                GG Piano Chord 
 GG Piano Chord 
 AA Piano Chord 
                    GG Piano Chord 
 GG Piano Chord 

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)

AA Piano Chord 
                              GG Piano Chord 
  G#G# Piano Chord 
  AA Piano Chord 

My momma says she can't understand me
EE Piano Chord 

Can't see me motivation
AA Piano Chord 

Just give me some security
D                G             D      A (riff)
I'm a paranoid schitzoid product of the 20th century
AA Piano Chord 
                                GG Piano Chord 
 G#G# Piano Chord 
 AA Piano Chord 

You keep all your smart modern writers
EE Piano Chord 

Give me William Shakesphere
AA Piano Chord 

You keep all your smart modern painters
D                    G        D           A (riff)
I'll take Rembrant, Titian, DeVinci and Gainsborough

AA Piano Chord 
                         GG Piano Chord 
 G#G# Piano Chord 
 AA Piano Chord 
                         GG Piano Chord 

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
AA Piano Chord 
                        GG Piano Chord 
 G#G# Piano Chord 
 AA Piano Chord 
                             GG Piano Chord 

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:
EmEm Piano Chord 
                A5A5 Piano Chord 
      EmEm Piano Chord 
             GG Piano Chord 
 G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
 EmEm Piano Chord 

I was born in a welfare state, ruled by bureaucracy
DD Piano Chord 
                   AmAm Piano Chord 
          CC Piano Chord 
      C/BC/B Piano Chord 
       A5A5 Piano Chord 

Controlled by civil servants and people dressed in grey
A5A5 Piano Chord 
         AmAm Piano Chord 
  A5A5 Piano Chord 
          GG Piano Chord 
 G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
 EmEm Piano Chord 

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
DD Piano Chord 
        FF Piano Chord 
      CC Piano Chord 
          GG Piano Chord 
          AA Piano Chord 

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
DD Piano Chord 
        FF Piano Chord 
     CC Piano Chord 
          GG Piano Chord 
           AA Piano Chord 

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
AA Piano Chord 
                           GG Piano Chord 
 DD Piano Chord 
 AA Piano Chord 

This is the twentieth century
GG Piano Chord 
 DD Piano Chord 
 AA Piano Chord 

Too much aggrevation
GG Piano Chord 
 DD Piano Chord 

This is the age of insanity
DD Piano Chord 
        FF Piano Chord 
     CC Piano Chord 
         GG Piano Chord 
           AA Piano Chord 

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

RIFF:
'A' chord
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-------------------3-3-3-2--
-------------------2-2-2-2--   repeat
-------------------4-4-4-2--
----0-5p0-5p0---0-----------
--------------0-------------

RIFF #2:
AA Piano Chord 
           GG Piano Chord 
      G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
    EmEm Piano Chord 

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----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)