Newspapermen chords by Pete Seeger
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Verse 1
(G major) Oh, newspapermen meet such
Interesting people! (D major)
(G major) He knows the low down (now it
can be told)
I'll tell you quite reliably off the record (D major)
About some (G major) charming people I have known
For I meet politicians
And grafters by the score
Killers plain and (D major) fancy
(G major) It's really quite a (D major) bore
Oh, (G major) newspapermen meet such
Interesting people! (D major)
He wallows in corrup (G major) tion, crime,
and gore
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city city city (D major) city city (G major) desk
Verse 2
Hold the (D major)
press, Hold the (G major) press
Extra! (D major) Extra! Read all (G major) about it!
It's a mess, meets the test
Oh, newspapermen meet such
Interesting people! (D major)
It's wonder (G major) ful to represent the press
(D major) Now, (G major) you remember Mrs sadie
(D major) Smuggery
She needed (G major) money for (D major) a (G major) new fur coat
To get insurance,
she employed skullduggery
(D major) She up and cut her (G major) hus
band's only throat
She chopped him into fragments
She stuffed him in a trunk
She shipped it all (D major) back yonder
To her un (G major) cle in Podunk
(D major) Now, (G major) newspapermen meet such
Interesting people! (D major)
It must have startled (G major) poor
old Sadie's unc
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city (D major) city city city city (G major) desk
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Verse 3
Hold the press, (D major) Hold (G major) the press
Extra! Ex (D major) tra! Read (G major) all about it!
It's a mess,
(D major) meets (G major) the test
Oh, a newspaperman meets
Such interesting people!
(D major) It's wonderful to rep
(G major) resent the press (D major) (G major)
(D major) Now, (G major) newspapermen
Verse 4
meet such
Interesting people! (D major)
(G major) I've met (D major) the gal with million
dol (G major) lar knees (D major)
(G major) Oh, so the guy who sat
Five years upon a steeple (D major)
Just where the point (G major) was
I could never see
Yes, I've met Capone and Hoover
And lots of other fakes
I've even met a (D major) genius
Who swal (G major) lows rattlesnakes
(D major) Oh, a (G major) newspaperman meets
Such interesting people! (D major)
The richest girl (G major) who could not bake a a
a a a a a cake
Verse 5
Ting-a-ling ting-a-ling Ting-a-ling (G major)
(D major) (G major) now, newspapermen
are such
Interesting people! (D major)
(G major) They used to work (D major) like hell
just (G major) for romance
But finally,
the movies notwithstand (D major) ing
They all got tired of patches
(G major) on their pants
They organized a union to get
a living wage
They joined with (D major) other actors
Upon (G major) a living stage
Now newspapermen are such
interesting people (D major)
When they know they've got (G major) a
People's fight to wage
Verse 6
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper Guild (G major)
Got a free (D major) new (G major) world to build
Meet the people, (D major) that's (G major) a thrill
All togeth (D major) er fit's (G major) the bill
Now, newspapermen are such
Interesting people! (A minor)
(D major) It's wonderful (G major) to represent
(D major) (G major) (D major) the Guild
Oh, pub (G major) lishers
Verse 7
are such
interesting people! (D major)
Their policy's an acro
(G major) batic thing (D major)
(G major) They claim they represent
the common people (A minor) (D major)
It's funny Wall (G major) Street never has
complained
But the publishers have worries
For publishers must go
To working folks for read (D major) ers
An (G major) d big shots for their
dough
Now, are publishers are
Such interesting people! (D major)
It could be press-titution,
(G major) I don't know
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, circulation circulation
circulation
circulation
Verse 8
circulation
(G major)
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, advertising
advertising
advertising
advertising
advertising
Get those readers,
get that payoff
What a headache, what a mess
Oh, publishers are such
interesting people! (D major)
Let's give three cheers for
Freedom (G major) of the press
Newspapermen
Pete Seeger
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