Marionette chords by Mott The Hoople

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: F

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
F

1st Verse:
F     C     F        Bb       F
No puppet, no liar,  won't bend my lips to wire - No
      C
Don't pressurize me so
F      C       F       Bb      F
Don't gamble, with my life, or you won't live to do it twice
          C
Oh take some good advice from me
         Eb
And let the wires rock

Interlude:
Eb  Ab Eb Ab

2nd Verse:
G            C
All dressed in black so nobody sees you
A          D
Smile in the wings, tell me I please you
B         E       G      C    Am
Call me a king and watch for the wordworm to choke me
      G             C    B
And you're like a giraffe, the performance is poor
     A          D
Watch the audience laugh as my head hits the floor
     B            E       D
When I'm broken in half you still reach for the floor

Bridge:
D
STOP!
        B
I've had enough of this
     Em   D Db A
The pantomime's reversed
 A   B
I need -you feed
 E    G
I greed - you bleed

Chorus:
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db                Gb
Teacher's pet - Well you'd better forget it
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db           Gb
Teacher's pet - Go check your stocks and shares

D        B       E            A
And when the coffin comes make sure there's room for two
      B
You lied - I led
E
I died -You're dead

Chorus:
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db              Gb
Teacher's pet - You'd better forget it
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db         Gb
Teacher's pet - go check your product

Interlude:
F

3rd Verse:
F     C     F     Bb      F
A traitor, deceiver, a groovy disbeliever I thought
        C
A puppet was a thing cheap-taught - No way
F    C      F     Bb       F
Creator, conceiver, romantic love receiver - caught

Breakdown:
F
"Who are you"
F     Bb
"The nerve"
C
I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get
C
Out, AHHHHH!

Guitar Solo:
Eb  Ab Eb  Ab x2

4th Verse:
Eb  G            Cm      Bm
Oh he wanna play chords to the chick on the street
     A       D
He wanna play words to a world that don't speak
  B           Em      D          C  G
He wanna play people who play hide 'n' seek when they don't talk
G                D    G
He wanna play a riff to the man with the wires
     A            G
He wanna play lead but his hand's getting tired
  B             E  D
He just wanna play but don't know how to say - STOP

Bridge:
D   B
OK, the show's been fun
Em      G    A
But my wood's begun to warp
     B
They won -I'm done
A      G
New one - begun

Chorus:
Gb
Marionette - I did my best
Db         Gb
Teacher's pet - It just couldn't last
Gb
Marionette - Get me out of this mess
Db                 Gb
Teacher's little pet - It happened so fast
Gb
Marionette - Now I need a rest
Db             Gb
Teacher's pet - Where's my sanity gone - Mother?
Gb
Marionette - I did my best
Db               Gb        F
Teacher's little pet - I'm just like all the others

Outro:
F      C
They gambled, with my life
F      Bb       F
And now I've lost my will to fight
       C
Oh God these wires are so tight....
      Eb     Ab  Eb  F
I'm just a marionette