You Happy Puppet Chords
You Happy Puppet by 10000 Maniacs is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords Bbmaj7, Fmaj7, C, Dm, Am7, F and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
INTRO-
Bbmaj7 , Fmaj7 x2
VERSE 1-
Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
How did they teach you to be
Just a happy puppet dancing on a string
How did you........learn everything that
Comes along with slavish funnery?
C Dm
Tell me something if the world is so insane
Am7 F
Is it making you sane again to...
C Dm
Let another man tug at the thread
Am7 F
That pulls up your nodding head?
VERSE 2-
Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
How did they teach you to be
Just a happy puppet dancing on a string
How do you.........manage to live in-
-side this tiny stage you can't leave?
C Dm
Tell me something if the world is so insane
Am7 F
Is it making you sane again to...
C Dm
Let another man tug at the thread
Am7 F
That pulls up your nodding head?
BREAK-
Bb F
A dullard strung on the wire
F Bb
When the master's gone, you hang there
Bb F
With your eyes and your limbs so lifeless
C Dm
Tell me something if the world is so insane
Am7 F
Is it making you sane again to...
C Dm
Let another man tug at the thread
Am7 F
That pulls up your nodding head?
VERSE 3-
Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
How did they teach you to be
Just a happy puppet dancing on a string
How do you........manage to speak
Bbmaj7 F
Your mouth....a frozen grin?
BREAK-
Bb F
A dullard strung on the wire
F Bb
When the master's gone, you hang there
Bb F
With your eyes and your limbs so lifeless
C Dm
Tell me something if the world is so insane
Am7 F
Is it making you sane again to...
C Dm
Let another man tug at the thread
Am7 F
That pulls up your nodding head?
FINISH WITH-
C Dm
Your hollowed head, your marble eyes
Am7 F
Your wooden hands and your metal jawpins
C Dm
All wait in limbo for the man
Am7 C F
Who knows how to move you this way