Dutiful Servants & Political Masters chords by Chumbawamba
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Verse 1
One, (E minor) two, one, two, three,
four (C major) (A minor) (B major)
(E minor) (C major) (A minor) (B major)
Thing (E minor) s were rather dif (C major) ferent
in great grandfather's day
He just put a (A minor) chain around their ankles
and made them (B major) work for no pay
He took (E minor) everything they owned
and yet still (C major) demanded more
He did a (A minor) bloody good job
in (B major) taming the poor
Now (E minor) I'm rather more subtle, I say,
I'll tell you what (C major) I will do
I'll do (A major) everything I can to try (B major) and help you
And you'll be (E minor) helping me, I say,
and I'll see that (C major) you're alright
You can have a (A minor) place (A major) of your own,
you can (A minor) even pre (B major) tend to be white
And you (E minor) won't have to worry,
I'll have a quiet word (C major) with your mates
(E minor) Oh (A minor) they'll be alright,
they'll have enough (E minor) on their plate
I'll put a bit in their mouths,
you just (C major) pull hard on the reins
They'll do (A minor) anything for you and
they (E minor) won't complain
You'll be so much better off, I say,
you can (C major) share my paradise
Just (A major) sign my piece of paper
(A minor) and I'll (B major) organize your life
And it never fails, (E minor) it does the trick,
it (C major) works every time
So (A minor) me and my (A major) dear wife (B major) and
the family's doing fine
Great (E minor) granddad got his dukedom
when slavery (C major) was abolished
Dear old (A minor) dad became a viscount
when the (B major) Empire was finished
But (E minor) times have changed
Verse 2
for the better
with freedom (C major) of choice
We're a (A minor) thousand times richer,
(B major) QED His Master's (E minor) Voice
A dog stares into a gramophone trumpet,
waits for its call to action
Mute and obedient, standing to attention
Look a little closer,
the (C major) dog is a woman
She's working (A minor) under a system that
she can't (B major) (E minor) understand
Trapped inside a world of (C major) labor and heat
So that (A minor) she and (A major) her children
will be (E minor) able to eat
The trumpet is (F sharp minor) (B major) patriarchy, it's
(C major) old and fixed (E minor)
Where (A major) poor men (A minor) are lured (B major)
by (C major) de (E minor) sire to be rich (G major)
(E minor) Where the limited power (F sharp minor) is
(C major) still given to men (G major)
(E minor) Where de (A minor) velopment aid (C major) is
so (B major) wastefully spent (G major)
(F sharp minor) Where (E minor) western educa (F sharp minor) tion
(G major) enforces (C major) this crap
(G major) Where (E minor) women (A minor) work (B major) in the open,
(C major) yet live in (G major) a trap
There's (E minor) one solu (F sharp minor) tion, and (C major) this is (G major) it
(E minor) The (A minor) dog leaps on the gramo
(C major) phone and has a (E minor) shit
Dutiful Servants & Political Masters
Chumbawamba
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