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The People Are Scratching easy guitar chords by 
Pete Seeger
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Verse 1
G
D
G
D
G
D
G
Come fill up your glasses
C
and set yourselves down.
D
G
I'll tell you a story of somebody's town.
D
It isn't too near and
G
it's not far away.
D
It's not a place where I'd
Verse 2
want to stay.
[Chorus:]
G
Gm
Now the people are scratching
G
C
all over the street
D
Because the rabbits
G
Gm
had nothing to eat.
D
The winter
Verse 3
G
C
came in with a cold icy blast.
It killed off the flowers and
Gm
killed off the grass.
G
D
G
The rabbits were starving
because of the freeze.
D
G
D
They started eating the bark off the trees.
G
Gm
G
C
D
G
Verse 4
Gm
[Chorus]
G
The farmers said,
"This sort of thing just won't do.
D
Our trees will be dead when the
G
rabbits get through.
D
We'll have to poison the rabbits,
it's clear;
G
D
Or we'll have no crops to harvest next
G
Gm
year."
G
C
G
D
G
Verse 5
Gm
G
[Chorus]
D
So they brought the poison
C
and spread it around.
And soon dead rabbits
G
began to be found.
C
D
Dogs ate the rabbits and
the farmers just said,
"We'll poison those rabbits 'til the last
G
dog is dead."
C
D
G
Verse 6
Gm
D
[Chorus]
Up in the sky there were
meat- eating fowls.
C
The dead rabbits poisoned
G
the hawks and the owls.
D
Thousands of field mice the
hawks used to chase
D
G
Were multiplying all over the place.
Gm
G
C
D
G
Gm
Verse 7
[Chorus]
G
D
The fields and the meadows
C
were barren and brown.
The mice got hungry
G
and moved into town.
D
The city folks took the farmer's advise
And all of them started to poison
G
the mice.
C
D
G
Gm
Verse 8
[Chorus]
D
There were dead mice in all
C
the apartments and flats.
The cats ate the mice and
G
the mice killed the cats.
The smell was awful and I'm
glad to say
D
I wasn't the man hired to haul them away.
G
Gm
G
C
D
G
Gm
G
Verse 9
G
Gm
G
[Chorus]
All through the country and all
C
through the town
There wasn't a dog or
D
G
cat to be found.
The fleas asked each other,
"Where can we stay?"
D
They've been on the people from then 'til
Interlude 1
this day.
G
Gm
C
D
G
Gm
G
Verse 10
[Chorus] All you
small creatures that live in this land
Stay clear of the man
with the poisonous hand!
A few bails of hay might keep you alive
But he'll pay more to kill you than
let you survive.
G
Gm
[Chorus]
Outro 1
D
G
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