The Kinks - 20th Century Man: chords

 A                                          E
This is the age of machinery, a mechanical nightmare
   A
A wonderful world of technology
 D                                 A
Napalm, hydrogen bomb, biological warfare
                                               E
This is the twentieth century, too much aggrevation
  A
It's the age of insanity
  D                      G              D
What has become of the green pleasant fields of
   A
Jeruselem?
 A                  G A                    G
Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned
        D
I'm a twentieth century man but
                             A
 don't want, don't wanna be here

My mama said she can't understand me
She can't see my motivation
Just give me some security
I'm a paranoid, schizoid product of
the twentieth century

You keep all your smart modern writers
Give me William Shakespeare
You keep all your smart modern painters
I'll take Rembrandt, Titian,
Da Vinci and Gainsborough

Girl, we gotta get out of here,
we gotta find a solution
I'm a twentieth century man but
I don't want, don't wanna die here

Girl, we gotta get out of here
I'm a twentieth-We gotta find a solution
century man but
I don't want, I don't want to be here

      A
I was born in a welfare state,
                  G
ruled by bureaucracy
      D                 A
Controlled by civil servants and
 F                 A
people dressed in grey
 A                           G Em
Got no privacy, got no liberty
           D               A
Cos the twentieth century people
        F              A
took it all away from me

Don't wanna get myself shot down
By some trigger happy policeman
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
I'm a twentieth-century man but
I don't wanna die here

My mama says she can't understand me
She can't see my motivation
Ain't got no security
I'm a twentieth-century man but
I don't wanna die here

I don't want twentieth-century, man
No more twentieth-century man
I don't want twentieth-century, man

This is the twentieth century
But too much aggravation
This is the edge of insanity
I'm a twentieth-century man but
I don't wanna be here