The Pop Kids Chords
The Pop Kids by Pet Shop Boys is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Cm. It uses the chords Cm, Bb, Fm and Gm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: Cm Bb Cm Bb (4x)
Verse (0:30)
Cm Bb
Remember those days - the early 90s?
Cm Bb
We both applied for places at the same university
Cm Bb
Ended up in London where we needed to be
Cm Bb
To follow our obsession with the music scene
Cm Bb
Wherever we went whatever we did
Cm Bb
We knew the songs
Fm Gm
They called us the Pop Kids
Cm Gm
Because we loved the pop hits
Fm Gm
And quoted the best bits
Cm Gm
So we were the Pop Kids
Fm Gm Cm Gm
I loved you
Fm Gm
I loved you
Cm
They called us the Pop Kids
Verse (1:24)
Cm Bb
I studied history while you did biology
Cm Bb
To you the human body didn’t hold any mystery
Cm Bb
We were young but imagined we were so sophisticated
Cm Bb
Telling everyone we knew that rock was overrated
Cm Bb
We stayed out until late five nights a week
Cm Bb
And felt so chic
Fm Gm
They called us the Pop Kids
Cm Gm
Because we loved the pop hits
Fm Gm
And quoted the best bits
Cm Gm
So we were the Pop Kids
Fm Gm Cm Gm
I loved you
Fm Gm
I loved you
Cm
They called us the Pop Kids
Bridge (2:14)
Cm Gm Cm Gm
Cm Gm Cm Gm
Cm Gm Cm Gm
Cm Gm Cm Gm
Speech (2:37)
It was a wet Wednesday night
We worried that no one would be going out
How wrong we were!
Cm
When we turned the corner
Cm
There was already a queue stretching down the street
We swept straight in and you said:
Bridge (2:52)
Cm Bb
"Ooh, I like it here!
Cm Bb
Ooh, I love it!
Cm Bb
Ooh, I like it here!
Cm Bb
Ooh, I love it!
Cm Bb
Ooh, I like it here!
Cm Bb
Ooh, I love it!
Cm Bb
Ooh, I like it here!
Cm Gm Fm
Ooh, I am never going home"
Bridge (3:22)
Fm Gm Cm Gm
Fm Gm Cm Gm
Outro (3:36)
Fm Gm
They called us the Pop Kids
Cm Gm
Because we loved the pop hits
Fm Gm
And quoted the best bits
Cm Gm
So we were the Pop Kids
I loved you