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Track: I Don't Like Mondays
Artist: The Boomtown Rats
Album: The Fine Art Of Surfacing

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Name: The Boomtown Rats
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Irish rock band, formed in 1975 in Garry Roberts' kitchen in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, the group originally took the name The Nightlife Thugs. They changed it during the interval of their first gig on October 31st 1975 to The Boomtown Rats, after [a=Woody Guthrie]'s term for oilfield workers. The original lineup was [a=Bob Geldof] (vocals), [a=Garry Roberts] (lead guitar), [a=Johnnie Fingers] (keyboard), [a=Pete Briquette] (bass), [a=Gerry Cott] (rhythm guitar) and [a=Simon Crowe] (drums). They recorded six studio albums and a string of successful singles. Cott left the band in 1981. The group remained together until just after the 1985 Live Aid concert of which Bob Geldof, KBE, was the organiser. The group reformed in 2013, with original members [a=Bob Geldof], [a=Garry Roberts], [a=Pete Briquette], and [a=Simon Crowe] joined by [a=Alan Dunn] and [a=Darren Beale].

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Release: The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
Year: 1979
Genres: Rock
Styles: Pop Rock

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LYRICS

The silicon chip inside her head
gets switched to overload
and nobody's gonna go to school today
she's going to make them stay at home
and daddy doesn't understand it,
he always said she was as good as school
and he can see no reason
'cos there are no reasons
what reason do you need to be shown

Tell me why?!
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?!
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?!
I don't like Mondays,
I want to shoot
the whole day down...

The telex machine is kept so clean
as it types to a waiting world
and mother feels so shocked
father's world is rocked
and their thoughts turn to
their own little girl
sweet sixteen ain't that peachy keen
no, it ain't so neat to admit defeat
they can see no reasons
'cos there are no reasons
what reason do you need

Tell me why?!
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?!
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?!
I don't like Mondays,
I want to shoot
the whole day down...

all the playing stopped in the playground now
she wants to play with her toys a while
and school's out early and soon we'll be learning
and the lesson today is how to die
and then the bullhorn crackles
and the captain tackles
with the problems and the how's and why's
and he can see no reasons
'cos there are no reasons
what reason do you need to die?