The Kids Dont Want To Come Home Chords

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The Kids Dont Want To Come Home by Declan McKenna is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, A and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D               G 
   I don't know what I want 
D                 G 
   If I'm completely honest 
D                  G 
   I guess I could start a war I 
D                G 
   guess I could sleep on it 

|| Strum || 

D               G 
   I don't know what I want 
D                 G 
   If I'm completely honest 
D                  G 
   I guess I could start a war I 
D                G 
   guess I could sleep on it 

A 
Hey there kids with guns 
     G 
your neighbors complain but they don't 
                     D 
know where they come from 

D                    G 
   I guess it's just bad advice for 
D             G 
   someone so upstanding 
D                G 
   so maybe just ask them twice or 
D             G 
   be a bit demanding 

G         D           A            Bm 
You don't know how to give love to anyone 
G         D           A 
You don't know how to pretend 
G             D           A         Bm 
You told your kids they'd live long forever 
        G                     D 
But the kids don't wanna come home 
A 
again 
       G                     D 
No the kids don't wanna come home 
A 
again 

D              G 
   Haven't you any shame 
D               G 
   Have you got no morals 
D                G 
   Teaching them how to aim no 
D              G 
   Sadness and no sorrow 

A 
Hey there mother mine 
     G 
Your kids are sick but 
                   D 
They gonna be just fine 

D             G 
   Well I say possibly not if 
D                   G 
   You keep raising them this way 
D                    G 
   Your just leading them to die oh 
D                 G 
   Your disbelief and Dismay 

A 
Hey there kids with guns 
     G 
your neighbors complain but they don't 
                     D 
know where they come from 

G         D           A            Bm 
You don't know how to give love to anyone 
G         D           A 
You don't know how to pretend 
G             D           A         Bm 
You told your kids they'd live long forever 
        G                     D 
But the kids don't wanna come home 
A 
again 
       G                     D 
No the kids don't wanna come home 
A 
again 

G         D           A            Bm 
You don't know how to give love to anyone 
G         D           A 
You don't know how to pretend 
G             D           A         Bm 
You told your kids they'd live long forever 
        G                     D 
But the kids don't wanna come home 
A 
again 

       G                     D 
No the kids don't wanna come home 
A 
again 
       G                     D 
No the kids don't wanna come home 
A 
again 
       G                     D 
No the kids don't wanna come home 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante