Marionette(Keyboard chords)

	        Intro: F 

Verse 1:
 
F         C          F               Bb             F 
No puppet,  no liar,   won't bend my lips to wire - No 
           C 
Don't pressurize me so 
F            C              F              Bb            F 
Don't gamble,  with my life,  or you won't live to do it twice 
                    C 
Oh take some good advice from me 
                  Eb 
And let the wires rock 

Interlude: Eb   Ab  Eb  Ab 

Verse 2:
 
G                       C 
All dressed in black so nobody sees you 
A                   D 
Smile in the wings, tell me I please you 
B                  E             G           C        Am 
Call me a king and watch for the wordworm to choke me 
           G                         C        B 
And you're like a giraffe, the performance is poor 
          A                    D 
Watch the audience laugh as my head hits the floor 
         B                        E              D 
When I'm broken in half you still reach for the floor 

Bridge:
 
D 
STOP! 
                B 
I've had enough of this 
         Em     D  Db  A 
The pantomime's reversed 
  A     B 
I need -you feed 
  E       G 
I greed - you bleed 

 
Gb 
Marionette - I ain't one yet 
Db                                Gb 
Teacher's pet - Well you'd better forget it 
Gb 
Marionette - I ain't one yet 
Db                      Gb 
Teacher's pet - Go check your stocks and shares 

D               B              E                       A 
And when the coffin comes make sure there's room for two 
           B 
You lied - I led 
E 
I died -You're dead 

Gb 
Marionette - I ain't one yet 
Db                           Gb 
Teacher's pet - You'd better forget it 
Gb 
Marionette - I ain't one yet 
Db                 Gb 
Teacher's pet - go check your product 


Interlude: F 

Verse 3:
 
F         C          F          Bb            F 
A traitor,  deceiver,  a groovy disbeliever I thought 
               C 
A puppet was a thing cheap-taught - No way 
F       C           F          Bb              F 
Creator,  conceiver,  romantic love receiver - caught 

Breakdown 
F 
'Who are you' 
F         Bb 
'The nerve' 
C 
I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get 
C 
Out, AHHHHH! 

Guitar Solo: Eb    Ab  Eb   Ab (x2) 

Verse 4:
 
Eb    G                        Cm           Bm 
Oh he wanna play chords to the chick on the street 
         A              D 
He wanna play words to a world that don't speak 
   B                     Em            D                    C    G 
He wanna play people who play hide 'n' seek when they don't talk 
G                               D        G 
He wanna play a riff to the man with the wires 
         A                        G 
He wanna play lead but his hand's getting tired 
   B                         E    D 
He just wanna play but don't know how to say - STOP 

Bridge:
 
D     B 
OK, the show's been fun 
Em            G        A 
But my wood's begun to warp 
          B 
They won -I'm done 
A           G 
New one - begun 

 
Gb 
Marionette - I did my best 
Db                 Gb 
Teacher's pet - It just couldn't last 
Gb 
Marionette - Get me out of this mess 
Db                                 Gb 
Teacher's little pet - It happened so fast 
Gb 
Marionette - Now I need a rest 
Db                         Gb 
Teacher's pet - Where's my sanity gone - Mother? 
Gb 
Marionette - I did my best 
Db                              Gb                F 
Teacher's little pet - I'm just like all the others 


Outro 
F            C 
They gambled,  with my life 
F            Bb              F 
And now I've lost my will to fight 
             C 
Oh God these wires are so tight.... 
           Eb          Ab   Eb   F 
I'm just a marionette
	        

Written by Ian Hunter