Philosopher's Song Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays466

Philosopher's Song by Monty Python is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, G, B7 and E7. 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
Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant
                    A
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
                              D
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
                   G
Whilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    A
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
                           D
Who was just as sloshed as Schlagel
                A
There's nothin' Nieizsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
            D        B7          E7
Socrates himself was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill of his own free will
After half a pint o' shanty became particularly ill
Plato they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
`I drink therefore I am'

But Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed
    	

Chord diagrams

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