Capo 2 Intro: G5 D5 C5 G5 D5 C5 The Kingsmen came together in a garage, they could hardly even play G5 D5 C5 But they practiced night and day pretty soon they got to where they could really play that song Louie, Louie G5 D5 C5 So, they saved up all the money from the shows, went in to one of them studios and gave their version of the song a try G5 D5 C5 Now, I don't know the words to that song Louie, Louie and I'm pretty sure the singer for the G5 D5 C5 Kingsmen didn't know ?em either, if he did know ?em he didn't get ?em right on the record G5 D5 C5 D5 Cause on the record they sound jumbled in his jaw? It says, me think of me girl oh so constantly G5 D5 C5 D5 Ahmayaaah makaaaah aahh ooohoooh aaaaah G5 D5 C5 Well, that last part scared everybody from the PTA to the FBI G5 D5 C5 You see, the kids had been going kind of crazy lately and it seemed like nobody could figure out why, G5 D5 C5 So they decided to form a coalition, launch an investigation, you know for the children, they at least had to try G5 D5 To figure out the words to Louie, Louie Chorus G5 C5 G5 C5 It's the feel good hit of this endless summer G5 A5 D5 It gets these kids out of control C5 D5 G5 C5 Singin along to that star spangled bummer, G5 D5 G5 Hail, hail rock and roll G5 D5 C5 Marilyn Manson?s real name isn't even Marilyn Manson, he's a skinny public high school G5 D5 C5 Kid from Florida, not some monster from out of this world and like of a lot other skinny long hair public G5 D5 C5 High school kids he was sick of getting beaten up by the pulling guard all week only to go out on the weekend, and watch the G5 D5 C5 Quarterback get all the girls so, he formed a band man G5 D5 C5 Now' he gets all the girls, a few years later a couple of latchkey kids go tragically G5 D5 C5 Mad and everybody's standing around the television store at the mall trying to figure out what went wrong, this guy says, G5 D5 C5 you think the life of a kid going to high school could've gotten so bad this other guy says nah, C5 It's just the words to one of them goddamn Marilyn Manson songs, you know the one Chorus G5 D5 C5 You know, every ten years or so our country and some other little country, we start firing all of our newest weapons G5 D5 C5 At each other for some reason or another, right or wrong, like it or not, it happens, and when it happens G5 D5 C5 People get shot and when people get shot, they show it on tv a lot every night at six o clock G5 D5 C5 And you don't even have to be eighteen to see it you don't even have to be in first grade, first grade where they teach the kid pride G5 D5 C5 They tell him he'll need to thrive, in a world where only the strong will survive, so he's taught the art of more G5 D5 C5 To compare to and to keep score Monday thru Friday while he stares at the floor til' Sunday they make him go to G5 D5 C5 School once more only this time they make him wear a suit and a tie and listen to some guy who claims to know where people go G5 D5 C5 When they die tell him that only the meek are gonna inherit the earth Well shit, by this time the kid doesn't know what anything G5 D5 C5 Is worth, now brothers and sisters I am only one guy and I don't even know the words to that song Louie, Louie G5 D5 C5 but I can tell you right now without batting an eye that the next time some latchkey kid goes wrong C5 It aint gonna be cause that Eminem gets to say the word Fag in his song G5 D5 C5 And I'm not trying to preach to ya either, I'm just trying to sing to ya too, you know string a few words together G5 D5 C5 Hey kids... G5 D5 C5 Lets get it on, G5 D5 C5 Lets get it on
