Clampdown chords by
The Clash

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Key: A major•

Intro 1

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A

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C#m

C#m

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F#m

F#m

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E

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A

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The kingdom is ransacked

C#m

C#m

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The jewels all taken back

F#m

F#m

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E

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And the chopper descends

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A

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They're hidden in the back

With a message written

C#m

C#m

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on a half-baked potato

F#m

F#m

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E

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The spool goes 'round

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A

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Sayin' I'm back here in this place

C#m

C#m

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And I could cry

F#m

F#m

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E

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A

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And there's smoke you could click on

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D

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E

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What are we gonna do now?

Verse 1

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A

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D

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Taking off his turban,

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G

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A

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they said, "is this man a jew?"

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D

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A

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'Cause they're working for the clampdown

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D

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They put up a poster saying:

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G

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A

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"We earn more than you

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D

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A

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We're working for the clampdown"

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D

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G

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We will teach our twisted speech

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D

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A

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To the young believers

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D

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G

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We will train our blue-eyed men

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A

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To be young believers

Verse 2

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The judge said, five to ten,

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G

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A

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but I say double that again

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D

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I'm not working for the clampdown

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D

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G

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No man born with a living soul

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D

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Can be working for the clampdown

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D

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G

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Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall

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D

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A

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How can you refuse it?

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D

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G

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Let fury have the hour, anger can be power

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D

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A

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Do you know that you can use it?

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E

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The

Bridge 1

voices in your head are calling

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A

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Stop wasting your time,

there's nothing coming

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E

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Only a fool would think

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A

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someone could save you

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E

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The men at the factory are old and cunning

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You don't owe nothing, boy, get runnin'

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It's the best years of your life

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they want to steal

Verse 3

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G

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But you grow up and you calm down

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D

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And you're working for the clampdown

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D

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G

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You start wearing blue and brown

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D

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And you're working for the clampdown

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D

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G

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So you got someone to boss around

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D

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It makes you feel big now

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D

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G

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You drift until you brutalize

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D

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Make your first kill now

Verse 4

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In these days of evil presidentes

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D

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Working for the clampdown

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G

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But lately one or two has fully paid their due

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D

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For working for the clampdown

Ha! Get along! Get along!

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G

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D

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(Working for the clampdown)

Ha! Get along! Get along!

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G

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D

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(Working for the clampdown)

F#m

F#m

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Yeah, I'm working

Outro 1

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D

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hard in Harrisburg

F#m

F#m

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D

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Working hard in Petersburg

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G

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D

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Working for the clampdown

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G

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D

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Working for the clampdown

Ha! Get along! Get along!

F#m

F#m

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D

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Beggin' to be melted down

F#m

F#m

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D

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(Get along! Get along!)

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Work, work

F#m

F#m

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The (and I'll give away no secret)

F#m

F#m

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G

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Work, work

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F#m

F#m

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D

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More work, more work

F#m

F#m

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D

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G

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D

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Work, work

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Work

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