The song is pretty simple to play, but still catchy as hell!
The guitar strums eighth notes for the majority, and there are a lot of power chords. Go crazy!

Chord Shapes:
G#5 (466xxx)
A5 (577xxx)
E5 (x799xx)
E (0221xx)
D5 (x577xx)

INTRO (played sometimes between verses too):

G#5 (slide) A5 E5 A5 E5

VERSE:
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/jenny_and_johnny/committed_crd.html )
Committed, committed, I need to be committed
I need to be locked away. I need a straighter jacket on my crooked frame.
I need to be admitted today.
(etc)

CHORUS:

I put my back into, put my back into my work
I will receive what I, will see what I deserve.

BRIDGE:

It’s a beautiful life
We lay sleeping (ahhh)
With my beautiful wife and me

We’ll hold each other closer until the end of days

(Repeat verse and chorus to end of song.)

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NEW YORKER CARTOON – Jenny and Johnny

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Tabbed by: Narcdor

Chords used:

G D Am Cmaj7 G/F# Bm Em Dadd Dpower A# C

e|--3--2--0--3-----3----2--0--3----5------6--8---|
B|--3--3--1--3-----3----3--0--3----3------6--8---|
G|--0--2--2--0-----0----4--0--2----2------0--0---|
D|--0--0--2--2-----0----4--2--0----0------0--0---|
A|--2--0--0--3-----x----2--2--0----0------5--7---|
E|--3--x--0--x-----2----x--0--x----x------6--8---|

I know Dpower isn’t a chord, but it’s a root and fifth, so it’s basically a power chord.
The A# and C probably aren’t A# and C either, but pretty close to in a G shape.

I was running
From imaginary vampire bats

I was shrieking at the moon
While Montezuma laughed

Oh, Aztlan blues
And reds and greens and golds
I hope that I die
When I’m 100 years old

Looking like a New Yorker cartoon
Sleeping in a golden cocoon
With you

I was making love
To my sister from another life
I was stitching seams of my opium dreams
With a needle from a camel’s eye

If I could give myself some advice
I’d go out of my mind right now
I’d stay here with my baby
Forever in the here and now

Looking like a New Yorker cartoon
Sleeping in a golden cocoon
With you
With you

#Instrumental break#
D [G/F#]Dadd Dpower Dadd

I was returning my salute
To the Lieutenant paper bag
And my best friend, Farmer Dave
Lit me up so I could take a drag

My sister’s former flame
Threw his shirt into the fire
An aging child prodigy
A genius who inspired

Looking like a New Yorker cartoon
Sleeping in a golden cocoon
With you
With you
With you

#Outro#

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Up on Mount Olympus

Living on a pile of trash
With all the lunatics
How they worship me

What are you going to do

With the back of that ticket?
That’s my number but
I’ll call you

There’s nothing less I’d rather [C-F-C]do

You’ve been sniffing up that mercury

From a broken thermometer
Like a cloud gatherer
Just like Zeus

Out at the car show

She does your jumbles
Like seeing a cold sore
In a kissing booth

There’s nothing less I’d rather do
There’s nothing less I’d rather d[C-F-C]o
There’s nothing less I’d rather
There’s nothing less I’d rather
There’s nothing less I’d rather d[C-F-C]o

And I, I live with the shame
But you, you live with the same, same

[C-F-C]
Living on Milk Duds

And therapeutic mud
Ninety days at promises
With no booze

Outside Silver Lake
(No chrd)
I am the biggest fake
Like the Mona Lisa
At the Louvre

There’s nothing less I’d rather do
There’s nothing less I’d rather d[C-F-C]o
There’s nothing less I’d rather
There’s nothing less I’d rather
There’s nothing less I’d rather d[C-F-C]o

And I, I live with the flames
But you, you’re taking the blame, blame

There’s nothing less I’d rather [C-F-C]do
(end)

That was a wise crack
But you’re not a bad dude
Although you’d make bedroom eyes
At a test tube

Late bloomers arrive
When they want to
Then they grow up

She’s an accomplice
To your strangeness
So your father was emotionally restrained
But at that time who really wasn’t with their kids?

Straight edge of the blade
How long will you wait?
Come out and play
Straight edge of the blade

There is a six pack of Red Bulls on the horizon
It’s like a portrait of your aggression
But you’ll always have sex with a stranger
To set you clear

It’s a real shame that you don’t drive
Since you don’t drink, you should be driving me around
As you know I’m an angel behind the wheel

Straight edge of the blade
How long will I wait?
Come out and play
Straight edge of the blade

I have never seen a love that was greater
Between two men who couldn’t be straighter
You don’t know he betrayed you
But I know he did

All your experience with the opposite sex
Only led to physical regrets
Because you fall in love with your friends
But you keep it hid

Straight edge of the blade
How long will you wait?
Come out and play
Straight edge of the blade
Come out and play
Come out

You’re sincerely
Lost completely

She ain’t a princess
But she’s an artist
Painting a portrait
All over my heart

Colors bleeding
So deceiving
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/jenny_and_johnny/scissor_runner_crd.html )
No I won’t change another thing
I cracked the bell I tried to ring

A scissor runner stole my heart

I was on standby
Catching the red eye
I missed my flight
She didn’t mind

I’ll forgive you
If I outlive you

No I won’t change another thing
I cracked the bell I tried to ring

A scissor runner stole my heart
A scissor runner stole my heart
A scissor runner stole my heart

Uptown, downtown, all around the swingset
You say what you want I don’t ever lose bets
Find me laying low in the San Fernando
You ask me well I say I don’t know

SWITCHBLADE – Jenny and Johnny

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Tabbed by: Narcdor

Tuning: Standard

Intro

It’s the one long year of Saturday nights
In the city of a million suns
Sleeping through the afternoon
With your latest only one
You had her every way from Sunday
And on Monday morning too

You used to dine out on a dollar
With a switchblade in your coat
You had your young mind in the gutter
You had your feet on the ground

See you on the way up (On the way down)
See you on the way down (On the way up)
See you on the way up (On the way)
Down

Ah ahhhhhh
Ah ahhhhhh

It was poverty that kept you sweet
And dreams that kept you young
The money started rolling in
You stopped having any fun

You used to dine out on a dollar
With a switchblade in your coat
You had your young mind in the gutter
You had your feet on the ground

See you on the way up (On the way down)
See you on the way down (On the way up)
See you on the way up (On the way)
Down

Ah ahhh
Ah ahhh

You used to dine out on a dollar
With a switchblade in your coat
You had your young mind in the gutter
You had your feet on the ground

See you on the way up (On the way down)
See you on the way down (On the way up)
See you on the way up (On the way)
Down

Ah ahhh

http://jennyandjohnnymusic.com/

Intro ? A D

A D (with rhythm)
Well, I don’t believe in double vision
and I don’t think that two heads are better than one
and I can see is ouroboros
when my pet snakes are sizing me up

and if you don’t believe in destiny
then take what you’re given
you and I got caught between
magic and business

we walked in on you while you were polishing your knives
(while your eyes were turning green)
sleeping in a twin bed with a serpent by your side
(are you trying to compete with me)
talk a lot of shit, but you would never start a fight
(about killin’ me)
God it makes me queasy when you smile
(smile, through your jealousy)

and I don’t believe in suckin’ your way to the top
fingers crossed, you’re flipping me off
no, I don’t need your supervision
i’ll sink this ship if I want

and if you don’t believe in chemistry
then what were we doing
you and i had everything from ____ to ruin

everytime you come around I have to run and hide
(and your eyes, are they bleedin?)
I get claustrophobic even when I am outside
(Are you trying? Gonna hurt something)
I thought we were brothers man, I thought that we were tight
(but your dog, it’s so evil)
sucking at the venom from your bite
(as you poison me)

hey dad… hello?

And I don’t believe paradise is lost
I say this with my fingers crossed

and if you don’t believe in prophesy
this ceremony’s finished
you and I tried everything from heroin to Guinness

two thousand and nine, it was a bastard of a year
(pass the joint to me)
I can not get stoned no more, I only get the fear
(but these hives, they are killin’ me)
we could have it out or we could have another beer
(I could lie, so evil)
all the best of luck with your career