Текст песни с аккордами
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This song is in the key of Em
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[Intro]
E Em E Em
(Spoken)
E Em
I'm the Boss of the company
(Spoken)
E Em
And I've got hunger working for me
(Spoken)
A Am7 Am
Listen and you'll begin to understand
(Spoken)
E Em
I built my profits on stolen land
(Spoken)
E Em
It's the economics of supply and demand
(Spoken)
Am E
And I make the demands around here
[Instrumental]
E Em E F N.C.
E G A7 E Em
E G A7 E Em
Em E Em E Em Bm7
G Em Bm E7 G E Em
E7 G E Em E7 G E Em
E7 G E Em E7 G E Em
E Em Cmaj7 A6 E Em Cmaj7 A6
[Verse]
E Em Cmaj7 Em
Product sells, people die
Em Cmaj7
Same manipulation wrapped in lies
Em Cmaj7 Am
Give a little money and play your rock and roll
Em Cmaj7 Am7
The biggest prizes to the biggest fools
[Instrumental]
C Am E
Em E C Am E
C Am E
[Verse]
(Spoken)
E
Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
(Spoken)
Cm Am
Welcome to the show where you the audience participate.
(Spoken)
E Cmaj7
On our show tonight we got lots of surprises in store for you at home.
(Spoken)
Am E
In keeping with the fashion for charity,
(Spoken)
Cmaj7 Am
not change, here's our contribution –
(Spoken)
Am E C
we've called it Slag Aid: for every pop star that we slag off today,
(Spoken)
C Am E
a million pounds will be given away!
{Instrumental]
C Am E
E D Am E C Am
[Verse]
(Spoken)
E Em C
Paul McCartney - come on down
(Spoken)
C Am
With crocodile tears to irrigate this ground
(Spoken)
E
Make of Ethiopia a fertile paradise
(Spoken)
Am E
Where everyone sings Beatles songs and buys shares in EMI
(Spoken)
Cmaj7
Charity, starvation, and rock and roll
(Spoken)
Am E
Let it be, eh Paulie?
{Instrumental]
C Am E
[Verse]
(Spoken)
E C
Freddie Mercury, this is your life
(Spoken)
F Am
Thank the Lord that you were born white
(Spoken)
E C
And thank apartheid for this wonderful opportunity
(Spoken)
C Am Gb
To peddle your hypocrisy in Sun City
(Spoken)
Gb D
A bit of a hot potato in a moment, eh Fred, in South Africa?
(Spoken)
Bm Gb
Well I'm sure there's a video in there somewhere
G D Bm E C
[Verse]
(Spoken)
E C
David Bowie, the price is right
(Spoken)
C Am E
With a suitful of compassion and a gobful of shite
(Spoken)
E
Still the voices of those who doubt
(Spoken)
C D9
Coca-Cola for the peasants to end this drought
(Spoken)
E C
David the world can only take so much
(Spoken)
Am
And with you around, we're in for a really hard time
E C Am
[Verse]
(Spoken)
E Em C
Jagger and Richards, game for a laugh
(Spoken)
C Am
Dancing us down the garden path
(Spoken)
Em E
To a place where money grows on trees
(Spoken)
Cm D9 Gb
Where cocaine habits are financed by hunger and disease
(Spoken)
D Gb D
There's only one mountain in the rock and roll business
(Spoken)
D Bm Gb
Ladies and Gentlemen, and it's Mick Jagger
D Bm E C Am
Em C Am Em C
[Bridge]
Am Em C Am
Ask the puppet-masters who pull the strings
Em C Am
Who makes the money when the puppets sing
Em C Am
Ask the corporations where does the money go
Am Em C
Ask the empty-bellied children what are we singing for
[Verse]
(Spoken)
Em C
And Cliff Richard, three, two, one
(Spoken)
C D9
The God who remains when the religion's gone
(Spoken)
Em
Cliff, we've got a special surprise for you today
(Spoken)
C Am
So come up closer, step this way
(Spoken)
Em
Cliff, you're such an example of moral worth
(Spoken)
Cmaj7 D9
Such a purist saint come to bless our earth
(Spoken)
Em
That on behalf of our viewers watching on telly
(Spoken)
Em F
And on behalf of the millions with empty bellies
(Spoken)
F D Em
We're donating something special that we're all going to like
(Spoken)
Em Am A7
Cliff Richard, we're going to nail you up to a cross tonight!
[Verse]
(Spoken)
E
Ladies and gentlemen, just imagine it,
(Spoken)
C Am
someone comes along, takes everything you own,
(Spoken)
Am E
your space, your house, separates you from your family and then
(Spoken)
C Am
hits you in the face if you say anything different.
(Spoken)
Am E
Well, that's what we've been doing to the third world
(Spoken)
E C
for the past four hundred years. That's you and me.
(Spoken)
Am
You the viewers at home, me in the studio,
(Spoken)
E
the pop stars, everyone. That's how we make the third world,
(Spoken)
C
every day, today and every day.
(Spoken)
Am D
If you want any correspondence with the program,
(Spoken)
D G Em
just send your answers, letter bombs only, to BP House,
(Spoken)
Em
Victoria Street, London, SW1. Thank you and good night,
(Spoken)
Em
feed the world, starve the rich, goodnight!
Em Am B7
[Outro]
Em Am
I know there must be more
Em Am
I know there must be more
Em
Than giving just a little bit more
Em Am B7
When half of this world is so helplessly poor
Em G C
Starved of the real solution
Em G Cmaj7 B7
Charity and tradition
Em Cmaj7
And the cycle of hungry children
Bm Em Cmaj7 E
Will keep on going 'round
E Bm Em
Will keep on going 'round
E Bm Em
Will keep on going 'round
Em C Bm Em
'Till we burn the house of commons to the ground
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