Capitalism Gone Mad chords by Mighty Sparrow

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You've got to
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be a millionaire
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Or some kind of petty bourgeoisie
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Any time you're here, in this country
You've got to be in school, don't you?
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Making you money illicitly
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To live like somebody, in this country
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It's outrageous and in sane
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Them crazy prices in
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And like the merchants
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going out of their brain
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And the working man like
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the only toiling in vain
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Where you ever hear a television for seven thousand,
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quarter million for little piece of land
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A pair of sneakers, two hundred dollars,
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eighty, ninety thousand for mo tor cars
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At last, here in
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Trinidad, we see capitalism going mad
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It's sad, I'm getting more bad
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Because doo -doo capitalism gone mad
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To provide for your family,
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today on your present salary
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Is an impossibility in this country
So many bills to pay,
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there is no conceivable way
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To save for a rainy day in this country
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A voraciousness, to be precise
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Is why every damn thing's so overpriced
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Big business making everybody feel
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Government give them a
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open license to steal
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Would you believe me?
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One nylon panty is 19 .90
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20 for some baby milk
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The cheapest jersey costs over 60
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200 and change a yard for silk
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It's hard here in
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Lord have mercy, capitalism gone mad
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It's sad, things getting more bad
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Lord, capitalism gone mad
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To buy a pack of cigarettes
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Does leave you with a hole in your wallet
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And money is so hard to get
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In this country
Necessity or luxuries
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It doesn't matter what the item is
They're charging anything they please
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In this country
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Primary school books, prices lewd
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It's highway robbery, the price of food
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All hopes and dreams elude the poor man
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But politicians still expect good
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work attitude
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Just imagine this, the cheapest coffee
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Over three thousand,
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not even dying today easy
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Thousands of dollars for the undertakers
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So you could get a spot in the cemetery
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It's hard here in
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Lord, capitalism gone mad
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The gladness that once we had
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Is gone because capitalism gone mad
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You've got to have heavy contact,
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know how to move up in society
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To make any kind of impact
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in this country
You've got to know how to cheaply feel
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How to scheme and swindle properly
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Perfect the art of will and deal
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In this country
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I say survival
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In this land
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Isn't easy
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For no man
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With unemployment
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And high inflation
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Somehow we go dead
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Before the end of this recession
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Where the hell is this
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Costing 350
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Forty dollars for one watermelon
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Half your salary for fish, meat and poultry
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Time you buy greens all your money done
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It's hard here in
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Lord have mercy, capitalism gone mad
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It's sad an d getting more hard
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Lord have mercy,
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gone mad
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