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