Start
Cm
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Intro
Cm Cm Ab Fm7 Bb
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Verse
Cm
Somewhere in the world there is a father and a mother
Cm
And the father is a son who has a mother
Ab
The mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of the mother
Fm7 Bb
And they're all just tryna multiply with one another
Cm
'cause that's just the way of the world
Cm
It never ends 'til the end and then you start again
Ab
That's just the way of the world
Ab Bb
That's just the way of the world
C
Somewhere in the world they think they're working for themselves
Cm C7
They get up everyday to go to work for someone else
Ab
And somebody works for them and so they think they got it made
F
But they're all just working to get paid the very same
F
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Cm Cm Ab
Skiddlydeedadum ■ They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Chorus
F7 C
Skiddlydeedadumdum ■ And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
C
Skiddlydeedadum Skiddlydeedadum
Ab
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Verse
F7 F Cm
Skiddlydeedadumdum ■ Somewhere in the world you got a robber and a bank
Cm
And the bank robbed the people
Cm
So the people robbed the bank
Ab
And the police came to get him
Ab
But they let him get away
F7 Bb7
'cause they're all just workin' to get paid the very same
Bb7
'cause that's just the way of the world
Bb7
It never ends 'til the end and then you start again
Ab Ab
That's ■ just the way of the world
Ab F
That's just the way of the world
Chorus
C
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
C C
Skiddlydeedadum ■ Skiddlydeedadum
Ab
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
F7 F Bb C
Skiddlydeedadumdum ■ ■ And ■ so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
C
Skiddlydeedadum ■ Skiddlydeedadum
Ab
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
F F7
Skiddlydeedadumdum ■ ■
Bridge
C7 C
Don't believe everything that you hear
C Cm
Let it go through your left and right ear
Cm Ab
Don't just march to the beat of that drum
Ab Bb7
Don't be one of them people just twiddlin' them thumbs
Bb7 Gsus4
'cause that's just the way of the world
Gsus4 Cm
It ■ never ends 'til the end and then you start again
Ab
That's just the way of the world
F
That's just the way of the world
Chorus
C
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
C
Skiddlydeedadum ■ Skiddlydeedadum
Ab
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
F7 Bb7 Bb Cm C C
Skiddlydeedadumdum And ■ so they keep ■ on twiddlin' them thumbs
C
Skiddlydeedadum Skiddlydeedadum
Ab
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Outro
F7 Bb Bb7 Bb
Skiddlydeedadum And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Skiddlydeedadum they gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Skiddlydeedadumdum
End