E Em E Em
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E Em
I'm the Boss of the company
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E Em
And I've got hunger working for me
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A Am7 Am
Listen and you'll begin to understand
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E Em
I built my profits on stolen land
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E Em
It's the economics of supply and demand
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Am E
And I make the demands around here
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E Em C7M Em
Product sells, people die
Em C7M
Same manipulation wrapped in lies
Em C7M Am
Give a little money and play your rock and roll
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The biggest prizes to the biggest fools
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C AmE
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E
Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
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Cm Am
Welcome to the show where you the audience participate.
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E C7M
On our show tonight we got lots of surprises in store for you at home.
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Am E
In keeping with the fashion for charity,
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C7M Am
not change, here's our contribution ?
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Am E C
we've called it Slag Aid: for every pop star that we slag off today,
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C Am E
a million pounds will be given away!
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E D AmE C Am
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E Em C
Paul McCartney - come on down
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C Am
With crocodile tears to irrigate this ground
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E
Make of Ethiopia a fertile paradise
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Am E
Where everyone sings Beatles songs and buys shares in EMI
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C7M
Charity, starvation, and rock and roll
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Am E
Let it be, eh Paulie?
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C AmE
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E C
Freddie Mercury, this is your life
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F Am
Thank the Lord that you were born white
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E C
And thank apartheid for this wonderful opportunity
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C Am Gb
To peddle your hypocrisy in Sun City
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Gb D
A bit of a hot potato in a moment, eh Fred, in South Africa?
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Bm Gb
Well I'm sure there's a video in there somewhere
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E C
David Bowie, the price is right
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C Am E
With a suitful of compassion and a gobful of shite
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E
Still the voices of those who doubt
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C D9
Coca-Cola for the peasants to end this drought
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E C
David the world can only take so much
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Am
And with you around, we're in for a really hard time
E C Am
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E Em C
Jagger and Richards, game for a laugh
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C Am
Dancing us down the garden path
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Em E
To a place where money grows on trees
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Cm D9 Gb
Where cocaine habits are financed by hunger and disease
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D Gb D
There's only one mountain in the rock and roll business
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Ladies and Gentlemen, and it's Mick Jagger
Am Em C Am
Ask the puppet-masters who pull the strings
Em C Am
Who makes the money when the puppets sing
Em C Am
Ask the corporations where does the money go
Am Em C
Ask the empty-bellied children what are we singing for
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Em C
And Cliff Richard, three, two, one
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C D9
The God who remains when the religion's gone
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Em
Cliff, we've got a special surprise for you today
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C Am
So come up closer, step this way
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Em
Cliff, you're such an example of moral worth
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C7M D9
Such a purist saint come to bless our earth
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Em
That on behalf of our viewers watching on telly
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Em F
And on behalf of the millions with empty bellies
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F D Em
We're donating something special that we're all going to like
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Em Am A7
Cliff Richard, we're going to nail you up to a cross tonight!
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E
Ladies and gentlemen, just imagine it,
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C Am
someone comes along, takes everything you own,
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Am E
your space, your house, separates you from your family and then
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C Am
hits you in the face if you say anything different.
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Am E
Well, that's what we've been doing to the third world
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E C
for the past four hundred years. That's you and me.
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Am
You the viewers at home, me in the studio,
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E
the pop stars, everyone. That's how we make the third world,
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C
every day, today and every day.
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Am D
If you want any correspondence with the program,
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D G Em
just send your answers, letter bombs only, to BP House,
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Em
Victoria Street, London, SW1. Thank you and good night,
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Em
feed the world, starve the rich, goodnight!
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Outro
Em Am
I know there must be more
Em Am
I know there must be more
Em
Than giving just a little bit more
Em Am B7
When half of this world is so helplessly poor
Em G C
Starved of the real solution
Em G C7M B7
Charity and tradition
Em C7M
And the cycle of hungry children
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Will keep on going 'round
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Will keep on going 'round
E Bm Em
Will keep on going 'round
Em C Bm Em
'Till we burn the house of commons to the ground