Key: E minor
Verse 1
E5
Em
E5
Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
Am
A5
Am
G
F
E5
Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
Em
D
Em
E5
Em
Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
Am
G
Am
What a fucking rip off, oi, oi, oi
Verse 2
threatening glance,
E5
Em
Another vicious threat,
Verse 3
another battle with tension and fear.
Em
E5
Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
A5
Am
G
F
Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
E5
Em
E5
Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
Am
G
Am
What a fucking rip off, oi, oi, oi
Verse 4
E5
Em
You tell me you're a working class loser, well
Am
C
Muscles all akimbo as they boot
E5
Em
Will you see yourself as the hero as
the media you've been fed.
E
Am
A5
you've bought the system's lie,
Am
C
They box us up and sit pretty as we
G
But what's the point of shitting on yourself,
Am
A5
up middle class twit,
Am
C
D
Media labels, system's shit.
Verse 5
Em
Yeah it's the greatest working class rip off,
Em
Am
Just another fucking rip off,
E5
Em
E5
It's the greatest working class rip off,
Em
Am
Ain't it just a rip off, ain't it just a rip off,
G
F
G
ain't it just a rip off, oi
Verse 6
Em
E5
E
A5
Punk attacked the barriers of colour,
class and creed,
Am
C
But look at how it is right now,
not violence, greed and hate,
Am
G
E
Punk's got nothing to do with what
D
E
E5
you're trying to create.
E5
E
Am
A5
Am
chaos? You mindless fucking jerks!
C
G
Can't you see you're talking about
Throughout our bloody history
G
D
Am
force has been the game,
E
G
E
E5
The message that you offer is just
Em
G
E5
the fucking same.
G
E
You're puppets to the system
E5
G
E
with your mindless violent stance,
E5
E
G
That's right you fuckers,
D
Am
E
sneer at us 'cause we say "Give peace a chance"
Am
G
In your violent world of chaos,
Am
E
Is Top of the Pops the way in which
G
E
Well mouth and trousers, sonny boy,
G
Am
E
will be the song you sing,
D
Am
'cause when you've bought your Rolls
G
D
Royce car and your luxury penthouse flat
Am
E
G
Bm
D
You'll be looking down your nose and saying "Punk,
dear chap, what's that?"
C
Am
E
You'll be the working class hero
And the world will be the same as
D
Am
the world has always been.
can stuff your ideas of class,
Am
G
Am
D
keep you sitting on your arse.
G
D
E
that's all you fucking hear,
G
D
Middle class, working class,
I don't fucking care.
Verse 7
E
Em
It's the greatest working class rip off,
Bm
B
Am
G
F
What a fucking rip off, oi, oi, oi
E
It's the greatest human sell off, oi, oi, oi
Am
Ain't it just a rip off, ain't it just a rip off,
G
E
ain't it just a rip off, oi
Verse 8
care where they're from,
We're all just human beings,
F
G
You can stuff your false divisions 'cause
E
E
Verse 9
Beat the system, beat its law
Ain't got no religion 'cause
I know there's more
Beat the system, beat its game
Ain't got no colour,
People, people, not colour,
class or creed
Don't destroy
the people, destroy their power and their greed
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