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Call It Democracy easy guitar chords by
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn

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Intro 1
D

Em
G
D

Em
G
Asus4

Verse 1
D

Padded

with power here they come
Em
G

International loan sharks

backed by the guns
Asus4
D

Of market hungry

military profiteers
Em

Whose word is a swamp and
G

whose brow is smeared
Asus4
D

With the blood of the poor
Em
Verse 2
G

Asus4
D

Who rob life of its quality
Em
G

Who render rage a necessity
Asus4
D

By turning countries

into labour camps
Em
G
Asus4
D

Modern slavers in drag as champi ons
Interlude 1

of freedom
D
Em
G
Asus4
D

Em
G

Verse 3
D

Sinister cynical instrument
Em
G

Who makes the gun into a sacrament
Asus4
D

The only response to the deification
Em

Of tyranny by so called
G
Asus4

"developed" nations'
D

Idolatry of ideology
Em
G

Verse 4
D

North, south, east,And it west
Em
G

Kill the best and buy the rest
Asus4
D

It's just spend a buck to make a buck
Em
G

You don't really give a flying fuck
Asus4
D

About the people in misery
Em
G

Verse 5
A

I-M-F dirty dirty dirty M-F
F#m
G

Takes Takes away everything it can get
A

Always making certain that

there's one thing left
Bm
F#m

Keep them on the hook with insupportable
G

debt
Interlude 2
D
Em
G
Asus4

D
Em
G

Verse 6
D

See the paid off local bottom feeders
Em
G

Passing themselves off
Asus4
D

as leaders

Kiss the ladies,

shake hands with the fellows
Em
G

And it's open for business like
Asus4

a cheap bordello
Verse 7
D

And they call it democracy
Em

And they call it democracy
G
D

And they call it democracy
Em

And they call it democracy
G
Verse 8
D

See the loaded eyes of the children too
Em

Trying to make the best
G

of it the way kids do
Asus4
D

One day you're going to

rise from your habitual feast
Em

To find yourself staring down
G

the throat of the beast
Asus4
D

They call the revolution
Em
G

Verse 9
A

I-M-F dirty dirty dirty M-F
F#m
G

Takes Takes away everything it can get
A

Always making certain that

there's one thing left
Bm

Keep them on the hook with insup
F#m
G
D

portable debt
Em
Verse 10
G

D
Em
G

And they call it democracy
Asus4
D
Em
G

And they call it democracy
Asus4
D
Em
G

And they call it democracy
Asus4
D

And they call it democracy
Outro 1
D
Em
G
D

Em
G
D

Em
G

D
Em
G
Asus4

D
Em
G
Asus4

D
Em


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