By Dan Bern
Transcribed by Justin
 

(drop D tuning, capo 2)

D                                     F        D
Let the niggers burn down nigger town
        F            G               A
Step aside for burning and looting
A                               G      F  D
But if they set foot in Beverly Hills
        F                       G                 D
Time brother, brother time to start shooting
D                               F              D
Everything everybody has in their homes
                              F    G        A
Will be taken away next week Wednesday
                                         G    F        D
And everything everybody ever believed
            F             G              D
Will be disproved next week Friday

     G                    D                A
I'm going down to Hannibal
           F              G        D
Gonna buy a new suit of clothes
 

D                                  F               D
Hitler never hurt a soul I read it in a book
          F              G          A
That I finished up just this morning
A                                                         G        F       D
I was happy and I just couldn't wait to tell the good news
F           G           D
To all of my dead uncles
D                                    F        D
When they tore down the Berlin wall
F      G       A
Everybody danced
                                           G     F D
But between what I feel and what I say
              F       G                       D
There's a thirty foot barbed wire fence

G                     D             A
Going down to Hannibal
          F               G        D
Gonna buy a new suit of clothes
       A                F          G         D         F          G               D
Say hey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey
      A                 F          G         D         F          G               D
Say hey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey

D                             F         D
The world is one big cosmic joke
F             G      A
Played on me, I hear
A                         G      F    D
And as soon as I leave this room
F                   G                   D
All of you are going to disappear
D                    F             D
Time begins to bend and shift
F               G          A
Maybe you haven't noticed
A                                      G          F    D
Just the other day a man in Washington state
F            G       D
Admitted killing Jesus

G                     D             A
Going down to Hannibal
          F               G        D
Gonna buy a new suit of clothes

D                           F    D
I'm six foot tall and 180 pounds
        F                       G                 A
I can punch through a wall with my fist
A                                              G   F     D
But I don't understand how with just one kiss
             F                   G          D
You can wrap me around your finger
             F                    G         D
You can wrap me around your wrist
D                                   F              D
Everybody who has ever ever been alive
    F          G     A
Is alive today in Georgia
A                                               G        F          D
As for the rest of us, I don't even know who we are
F      G            D
It's a mystery I guess

     G                    D              A
I'm going down to Hannibal
               F               G       D
I'm gonna buy a new suit of clothes

D                                          F                        D
You see, everything I know, I learned from my dad
F                  G         A
He learned it all from his
A                      G      F         D
And his dad just happened to be
F               G D
Wrong about everything
D                         F       D
I'm going down to Hannibal
F                              G        A
I'm gonna buy a new suit of clothes
A                        G      F     D
I'm going to wear three neckties
F                     G                  D
You're going to help with the bows
F                     G                  D
You're going to help with the bows
F                     G                  D
You're going to help with the bows
F                     G
You're going to help with the

       A                F          G         D         F          G               D
Say hey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey
      A                 F          G         D         F          G               D
Say hey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey hey hey hey hey hey heyhey
 

Notes: There's a lot of stuff in this song I didn't write out. Use a root 6 bar chord for the Fs, Gs and As. He hits the third fret on the low D string a lot. That particular lick is also what he uses when going up to the A in the "Going Down to Hannibal" part.