Maximum Consumption chords by The Kinks

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Verse 1
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I'll have some clam chowder,
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followed by beef steak on rye
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Pumpkin pie,
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whipped cream and coffee
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I wanna green salad on the side
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Don't forget the french fries
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Pizza pie, garlic and anchovy
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I keep burning up calories as fast as
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I keep putting them     down
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Eat food, put it in my mouth
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Chew it up, swallow it down
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I'll have two eggs, over light,
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home made ap ple pie
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Cole slaw as a side order
I gotta stay fit, stay alive,
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eat food to sustain a non-stop high-grade performer
performer
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performer
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The pace is continual,
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sure keeps running me down
Don't you know that you
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gotta eat food
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Don't you know that you gotta refuel
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I'm a maximum consumption,
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super-grade performer
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performer
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High powered machine
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Go steady on my clutch,
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go easy on the hills
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And you'll get a lot of mileage out of me
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I'm so easy to drive,
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and I'm an excellent ride
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Excessive living sure
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keeps running me down
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You've got to learn to use
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the maximum juice
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That's how you get the maximum
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use
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Life keeps using me, keeps on abusing me,
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mentally and physically
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I gotta stay fit, stay alive, need fuel inside,
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eat food to survive
Maximum consumption sure keeps
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running me down
Don't you know that you
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gotta eat food
Don't you know that it's good
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for you
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I'm a maximum consumption
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Non-stop machine
machine
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Total automation perpetual motion