Rip Off chords by Mighty Sparrow

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Help!
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Em 
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Please! Mother! On your knees!
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That's the cry of the average man
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in the land today
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The pressure is terrible,
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all are we in trouble
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And very few in government
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helping all the people
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You shut your eyes
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when businessmen strangle we
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So plus profits for them,
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for us misery
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Import freedom is less and less
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The low -cut produce goods
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is  a total mess
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And  standard price to excess
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Who gon' take the blame
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for the amount of shame
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Rascality and sculdury
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I believe we have reached
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where somebody should
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be impeached
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For breach of promise,
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disloyal practice
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Anywhere you turn
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there's some underhanded business
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Where is the lesson in ethics
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that we should get?
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Where are the good examples
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that they should set?
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We are not the idiots or the louts,
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so put   them guilty ones out
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The welfare of the people
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is too much in doubt
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I can't stand the pain,
Em 
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I'm of holding strength
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There's only tears,
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and a heavy set of prayers
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Teachers, preachers, doctors,
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rastas, bullies and thieves
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The man who won food stamps,
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the kitchen assistant
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The salary so scant
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that he can't buy food and pay rent
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Where are the politicians
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in whom we trust?
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Where are the labor leaders
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who lead in us?
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Do they ever hear the people cry?
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Do they  suggesting big money,
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asking why the cost of living so high?
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Fire in the place,
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customs gone to waste
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Because of the abject
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and sand neglect
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Now the general expression
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from all who love this nation
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Is ruination, humiliation
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Like if the devil have a hand
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in running this land
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I can't forget all the campaign
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promises
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Cheap food, good school,
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the two top priorities
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The cost of living get so rough
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To merely exist is tough
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And then half the leaders
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in the country is a  rip -off
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