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The Punk and the Godfather
By The Who   from Quadrophenia, 1973   written by Pete Townshend

transcribed by

[chords]
A5    x02255      G/B   x20033
D2/A  x04230      G/D   xx0433
Cadd9 x30030      D7    xx0535
G/C   x30033

[Intro]

|| A5   | D2   | Fmaj7     G | G  | A   ||x2

A5A5 Piano Chord 
                        D2D2 Piano Chord 
                       Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 
               GG Piano Chord 
    AA Piano Chord 

You declared you would be three inches taller, You only became what we made
you.
Thought you were chasing a destiny calling, You only earned what we gave you.

DD Piano Chord 
                         G/DG/D Piano Chord 
                   D7D7 Piano Chord 
                   G/DG/D Piano Chord 

You fell and cried as our people were starving, now you know that we blame
you.

A5A5 Piano Chord 
                       D2D2 Piano Chord 
                     FF Piano Chord 
                    GG Piano Chord 
      AA Piano Chord 

You tried to walk on the trail we were carving, now you know that we framed
you.

[chorus]
DD Piano Chord 
                  G/DG/D Piano Chord 
                      Cadd9Cadd9 Piano Chord 

I'm the guy in the sky flying high flashing eyes
GG Piano Chord 
                        EE Piano Chord 

No surprise I told lies I'm the punk in the gutter

Esus4Esus4 Piano Chord 
                 D2/B
I'm the new president but I grew and I bent

AA Piano Chord 
                           EE Piano Chord 

Don't you know? don't it show? I'm the punk with the stutter.

DD Piano Chord 
  D2D2 Piano Chord 
 DD Piano Chord 
  D2D2 Piano Chord 

My my my my    my mmmm my my my.  GGGGG-g-g-g-g generation.
e||-5--4--2--0-|---2-0---||
b||------------|-------2-||

We tried to speak between lines of oration
You could only repeat what we told you.
Your axe belongs to a dying nation,
They don't know that we own you.
You're watching movies trying to find the feelers,
You only see what we show you.
We're the slaves of the phony leaders
Breathe the air we have blown you.

[repeat chorus]

DD Piano Chord 
                           G/CG/C Piano Chord 
                                G/BG/B Piano Chord 

I have to be careful not to preach, I can't pretend that I can teach,

AA Piano Chord 

And yet I've lived your future out by pounding stages like a clown.

And on the dance floor broken glass, the bloody faces slowly pass,
The numbered seats in empty rows, it all belongs to me, you know.

[repeat first verse]