Fingers received a financial settlement and co-credit.Despite reaching number-one in the United Kingdom, it only reached number 73 on the US In the UK the song won the Best Pop Song and Outstanding British Lyric categories at the On 9 September 1981, Geldof was joined on stage by fellow Boomtown Rat Johnnie Fingers to perform the song for At a concert in London in 1995, almost ten years later to the day, "I Don't Like Mondays" was subsequently covered by (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'm gonna shoot the whole day down, down, down I'll shoot it all down And all the playing's stopped in the playground now She wants to play with her toys a while And school is out, oh and soon we will learn that the lesson today is how to die 6 (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'm gonna shoot the whole day down, down, down I'll shoot it all down And all the playing's stopped in the playground now She wants to play with her toys a while And school is out, oh and soon we will learn that the lesson today is how to die
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"I Don't Like Mondays" is a song by Irish new wave group The Boomtown Rats about the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego.
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