Dutiful Servants & Political Masters chords by
Chumbawamba

N/A

Key: E minor•

Verse 1
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One, two, one, two, three,
C C 
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Am Am 
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B B 2
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four
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C C 
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Am Am 
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B B 2
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Em Em 
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C C 
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Things were rather different
in great grandfather's day
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He just put a chain around their ankles
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and made them work for no pay
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He took everything they owned
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and yet still demanded more
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He did a bloody good job
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in taming the poor
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Now I'm rather more subtle, I say,
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I'll tell you what I  will do
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B B 2
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I'll do everything I can to try and help you
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And you'll be helping me, I say,
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and I'll see that you're alright
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A A 
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You can have a place of your own,
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B B 2
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you can even pretend to be white
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And you won't have to worry,
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I'll have a quiet word with your mates
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Am Am 
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Oh they'll be alright,
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they'll have enough on their plate
I'll put a bit in their mouths,
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you just pull hard on the reins
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They'll do anything for you and
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they won't complain
You'll be so much better off, I say,
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you can share my paradise
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Just sign my piece of paper
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B B 2
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and I'll organize your life
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And it never fails, it does the trick,
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it works every time
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A A 
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B B 2
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So me  and my dear wife and
the family's doing fine
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Great granddad got his dukedom
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when slavery was abolished
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Dear old dad became a viscount
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when the Empire was finished
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But times have changed

Verse 2
for the better
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with freedom of choice
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We're a thousand times richer,
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QED His Master's Voice
A dog stares into a gramophone trumpet,
waits for its call to action
Mute and obedient, standing to attention
Look a little closer,
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the dog is a woman
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She's working under a system that
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Em Em 
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she can't understand
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Trapped inside a world of labor and heat
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A A 
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So that she and her children
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will be able to eat
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B B 2
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The trumpet is    patriarchy, it's
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Em Em 
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old and fixed
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Am Am 
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B B 2
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Where poor men are lured
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G G 
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by desire to be rich
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F#m F#m 2
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Where the limited power is
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G G 
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still given to men
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Am Am 
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C C 
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Where development aid is
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G G 
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so wastefully spent
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Em Em 
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F#m F#m 2
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Where western education
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C C 
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enforces this crap
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Em Em 
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Am Am 
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B B 2
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Where women work in the open,
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G G 
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yet live in a trap
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F#m F#m 2
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C C 
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G G 
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There's one solution, and this is it
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Am Am 
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The dog leaps on the gramo
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phone and has a shit