British Colonialism & The BBC chords by
Chumbawamba
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Key: D major

Verse 1
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
I'm the boss of the BBC
I'm the monkey at the top of the
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
media tree
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
Your version of the riots in Cape Town
Bm Bm 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
E E 
 
G G 
 
Comes second- hand from me
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
Chewing and spewing this re  volution
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
For popular TV
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
All your opinions  are carefully chosen
D D 
 
G G 
 
Bm Bm 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
By what we'll let you see
Bm Bm 
 
G G 
 
Televised crap dressed up  as fact
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Your soap reality
A A 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
We only want a chance
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G G 
 
to show the Editor's side
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G G 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
Of struggle in the news
Closer and closer to the State's eye view
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G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
And further from the truth
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D D 
 
Push a microphone to the
G G 
 
mouth of this youth
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Bewildered and confused
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
Misreported,
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G G 
 
distorted, misquoted
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G G 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
A ready- made victim to be used
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
Quote you on  things that you never said

Verse 2
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Put this pencil to  your head
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Kill your re volution dead
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Em Em 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
Bm Bm 
 
G G 
 
TV  tells us what to be and what
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G G 
 
to say and what to do
How to act and how to lie but
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never question why
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Fighting to stop this mass-
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D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
deception
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
Fighting to scrap the pass-
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D D 
 
G G 
 
Bm Bm 
 
G G 
 
laws
D D 
 
G G 
 
Fighting to end misuse of
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G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
land
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D D 
 
Bm Bm 
 
Fighting to close down diamond
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G G 
 
Bm Bm 
 
G G 
 
mines
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G G 
 
Fighting to feed their hungry mouths
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G G 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Fighting
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Em Em 
 
G G 
 
to change the world
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G G 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
And here,
Em Em 
 
we sit on a fence
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
Built by distance
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Em Em 
 
G G 
 
and enforced by lies
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
Is a  full stomach all it takes
Em Em 
 
G G 
 
To keep us pacified

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