Rate My Music chords by Janis Ian

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Verse 1
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Folk  (E minor) music.  (A major) 
Rate my music one, two, three.
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Keep your children  (E minor) safe from me.
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Rate  (A major) my writing X,  (D major) Y, Z.  (B major) 
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That's  (E minor) what keeps this country free.  (A major) 
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 (B major)  (E minor)  (Asus2)  (E minor)  (Asus2) 
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Got  (E minor) Ma Rainey talkin'
bout a jail hero
Chuck Berry workin' on a mojo
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Bessie  (A major) Smith singin' bull
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 (D major) dagger blues
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Elvis  (E minor) twitchin' on
the evening news
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Rate  (A major) my  (E minor) music one, two, three
Keep your children safe from me
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Rape  (A major) my right in X,  (D major) Y, Z
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Liv (E minor) in' in the land of liberty, yeah
You better rape Walt Whitman
and Jean Cocteau
All the fags will have to go
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Alexander  (A major) the Great and
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 (D major) Plato and such
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 (B major) Your  (E minor) kids might catch it
if they read too much,
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 (Asus2) yeah      (E minor)  (Asus2)  (E minor) 
I watched the news last night at 9
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I  (A minor)  (E minor) saw a head blown
off somebody's spine
While the women moaned
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and the children screamed  (A minor) 
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 (E minor) Doesn't anybody  (A minor) else
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think  (E minor) that's obscene?
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 (A major) Rate my music 1, 2, 3
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Keep your children safe  (E minor) from me
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Rate  (A major) my ride in an X,  (D major) Y, Z
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 (B major) That's  (E minor) what keeps this country free,
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yeah  (B major)  (E minor) 
They're gonna rate all the dagos,
the whops and the kikes
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Gonna rate all  (B major) the chink (E minor) s
and the towelhead types
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Gonna rate  (A minor) all  (A major) the niggas,
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gonna rate  (D major) all the  (B major) fags
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Gonna wrap  (E minor) it up tight in the American flag,
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 (A major) yeah  (B major)  (E minor) 
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All  (A minor) you folks  (E minor) who bitch and moan
About the music
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your kids buy and  (A minor) bring
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on  (B major) home  (E minor)  (B major)  (E minor) 
Tell me just one thing before
we're done
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Where'd  (A major) they get  (A minor) 
their money from?
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Rate my  (E minor) music one, two, three  (A minor)  (E minor) 
Keep your children safe from me, yeah.
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Rate my writing X, Y, Z,  (A minor) 
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 (E minor) cause  (A major) that's what keeps
this country free.
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Rate  (E minor) my music, be my guest.
I don't care, it's just more press
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Rape my writing if you dare  (B major)  (E minor) 
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Cause  (A major) when you're gone
I'll still be there
When you're gone I'll still be there
When you're done,
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I'll still  (E minor) be here  (E minor) 