Slum Kids chords by The Kinks

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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We're just slum kids,
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and we know it,
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And we never stood a chance.
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We were dragged up from the gutter,
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From the wrong side of  the tracks.

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Verse 2

So how dare you criticize,

When you don't know what it's like

To be dragged up from the gutter,

From the wrong side of the tracks.

Verse 3
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Why do rich kids get all the breaks,
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While the poor slum kids have to work,
sweat, struggle and slave?
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Why, Lord,
there's so much injustice in this world?
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Slum kids never stand a chance.
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Look at all the

Verse 4

slum kids all around you,

Oh, they never stood a chance.

We were dragged up from the gutter,

From the wrong side of the tracks.

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Verse 5
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Why do rich kids get all the breaks,
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While the poor slum kids have to work,
sweat, struggle and slave?
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Why, Lord, there's so much
injustice in this world?
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Slum kids never stand a chance.
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Look at all the