Call It Democracy chords by
Bruce Cockburn

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Key: D major

Intro 1

Asus4

Verse 1
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Padded
with power here they come
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International loan sharks
backed by the guns
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Of       market hungry
military profiteers
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Whose word is a swamp and
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whose brow is smeared
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With     the blood of the poor
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Verse 2
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Who      rob life of its quality
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Who render rage a necessity
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By turning countries
into labour camps
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Modern slavers in drag as champi       ons

Interlude 1

of freedom

Asus4

Verse 3
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Sinister cynical instrument
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Who makes the gun into a sacrament
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The only response to the deification
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Of tyranny by so called
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"developed" nations'
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Idolatry of ideology
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Verse 4
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North, south, east,And it west
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Kill the best and buy the rest
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It's just     spend a buck to make a buck
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You don't really give a flying fuck
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About the      people in misery
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Verse 5
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I-M-F dirty dirty dirty M-F
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Takes Takes away everything it    can get
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Always making certain that
there's one thing left
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Keep them on the hook with insupportable
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debt

Interlude 2

Asus4

Verse 6
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See the paid off local bottom feeders
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Passing themselves off
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as leaders
Kiss the ladies,
shake hands with the fellows
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And it's open for business like
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a cheap bordello

Verse 7
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And they call it democracy
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And they call it democracy
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And they call it democracy
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And they call it democracy
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Verse 8
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See the loaded eyes of the children too
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Trying to make the best
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of it the way kids do
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One day you're going to
rise from your habitual feast
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To find yourself staring down
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the throat of the beast
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They call     the revolution
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Verse 9
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I-M-F dirty dirty dirty M-F
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Takes Takes away everything it    can get
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Always making certain that
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Keep them on the hook with insup
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portable debt
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Verse 10
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And they call it democracy
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And      they call it democracy
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And      they call it democracy
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And      they call it democracy

Outro 1
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