The Message chords by
Stiff Little Fingers

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Key: E major

Intro 1

Verse 1
D5 D5 5
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D D 
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Broken glass everywhere
C C 
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G G 
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People pissing on the station
Y'know they just don't care
D5 D5 5
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I can't take the smell
G G 
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D D 
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I can't take the noise
G G 
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C5 C5 3
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G G 
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I got no money to move out
I guess I got no choice
D5 D5 5
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Rats in the front room
D D 
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G G 
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Roaches in the back
C C 
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G G 
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Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
D D 
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G G 
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C5 C5 3
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I tries to get away but I couldn't get far
C C 
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G G 
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Cos a man with a truncheon
C C 
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re- possessed my car

Verse 2
D5 D5 5
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Chorus:
Don't push me cos I'm
F5 F5 
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close to the edge
D5 D5 5
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F5 F5 
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F F 
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I'm trying not to lose my head
D5 D5 5
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G G 
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D D 
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It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from
G G 
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F5 F5 
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going un  der
D5 D5 5
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C5 C5 3
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D5 D5 5
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Verse 3
A A 
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C5 C5 3
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D5 D5 5
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D D 
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My son said: "Daddy,
G G 
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I don't wanna go to school
C C 
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G G 
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Cos the teacher's a jerk,
he must think I'm a fool
D D 
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And all the kids smoke reefer
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I think it'd be cheaper
G G 
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If I just got a job learned
C C 
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to be a street sweeper
D5 D5 5
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D D 
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I'll dance to the beat,
G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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shuffle my feet wear a shirt and tie
And run with the creeps"
D D 
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Cos it's all about money
ain't a damn thing funny
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G G 
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D5 D5 5
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F F 
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D5 D5 5
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Dm Dm 
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You got to have a car in this land
D5 D5 5
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F5 F5 
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F F 
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D5 D5 5
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D D 
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of  milk
G G 
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and
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F F 
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D5 D5 5
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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honey
F5 F5 
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B5 B5 2
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Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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D5 D5 5
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Eb Eb 6
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D5 D5 5
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Dm Dm 
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D5 D5 5
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A child is born with no state of mind
C C 
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G G 
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Blind to the ways of mankind
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D5 D5 5
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God is smiling on you but
he's frowning too
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G G 
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Because only God knows what
you'll go through
D5 D5 5
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You'll grow in the ghetto
living second rate
C5 C5 3
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G G 
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C C 
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And your eyes will see a song of deep hate
D5 D5 5
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The places you play and where you stay
C C 
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G G 
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Looks like one great big alleyway
C C 
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You'll

Verse 4
D5 D5 5
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Dm Dm 
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ad  mire all
D5 D5 5
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the number book takers
C C 
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G G 
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The pimps the pushers and the
big money makers
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Driving great big cars spending
twenties and tens
C C 
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G G 
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And you want to grow up to
C C 
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be just like them
D5 D5 5
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Smugglers scramblers
D D 
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burglars gamblers
C C 
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G G 
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C5 C5 3
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Pickpocket pedlars even panhandlers
D5 D5 5
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You say I'm cool I'm no fool
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G G 
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D D 
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But then you end up dropping right outa school

Interlude 1
D5 D5 5
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Dm Dm 
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D5 D5 5
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D D 
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D5 D5 5
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F5 F5 
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D5 D5 5
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F5 F5 
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D5 D5 5
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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F F 
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D5 D5 5
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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F5 F5 
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D5 D5 5
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C5 C5 3
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G G 
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D5 D5 5
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D D 
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D5 D5 5
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G G 
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D D 
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D5 D5 5
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C5 C5 3
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D D 
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F5 F5 
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Verse 5
D5 D5 5
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Now you're unemployed
null and void
C C 
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G G 
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Walking round like
you're Pretty Boy Floyd
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D5 D5 5
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Turn stick up kid look what you done did
C C 
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G G 
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Got sent up for an eight year bid
D5 D5 5
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Being used and abused to serve like hell
C5 C5 3
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F F 
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Dm Dm 
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D5 D5 5
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Till one day you was found hung dead in the

Outro 1
cell
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F F 
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D5 D5 5
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Dm Dm 
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D5 D5 5
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F F 
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D5 D5 5
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F F 
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