Bad Year For Rock N Roll Chords

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Bad Year For Rock N Roll by Admiral Freebee is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, D and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Verse 
      C              G             D               G 
I was at the kind of party where I said I wouldn't go 
C       G               D             G 
Look at Vanessa putting on that nasty show 
C             G            D                  G 
Her looks, my language, it fits like peas and carrots 
C                                   G 
But she prefers to go home with the faggots 

 
       C   G        D        G 
It's a bad year for rock 'n' roll 
       C   G        D        G 
It's a bad year for rock 'n' roll 
       C          G        D        C 
It's a really bad town for rock 'n' roll 

Verse 
      C              G             D               G 
I parked my Volvo horse across the boulevard 
C       G               D             G 
And I started singing opera in a karaoke bar 
C             G            D                  G 
It's a strange town and I can't find my place 
C                                   G 
What a man has to do 
to get a decent blow-job these days 

 
       C   G        D        G 
It's a bad year for rock 'n' roll 
       C   G        D        G 
It's a bad year for rock 'n' roll 
       C          G        D        C 
It's a really bad town for rock 'n' roll 

Post-Chorus 
D               Em            G 
Doesn't anybody know how that feels? 

Verse 
      C              G             D               G 
If my brother's is out on a date, 
C       G               D              
I sit home to masturbate 
G 
I switch on MTV and hocus-pocus 
C             G            D                  G 
An erection in my pants and it ain't got a purpose 
C                                    
I'm switching to the other channels 
G 
and I don't know which one to focus 

 
       C   G        D        G 
It's a bad year for rock 'n' roll 
       C   G        D        G 
It's a bad year for rock 'n' roll 
       C          G        D        C 
It's a really bad town for rock 'n' roll 

Post-Chorus 
D               Em            G 
Doesn't anybody know how that feels? 
D               Em            G 
Doesn't anybody have rock 'n' roll dreams? 

 
       C   G        D        G 
It's a bad year for rock 'n' roll 
       C   G        D        G 
It's a bad year for rock 'n' roll 
       C          G        D        C 
It's a really bad town for rock 'n' roll  
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante