Tonalidad: E minor•
Verse 1
Em
One, two, one, two, three,
C
Am
B
four
Em
C
Am
B
Em
C
Things were rather different
in great grandfather's day
Am
He just put a chain around their ankles
B
and made them work for no pay
Em
He took everything they owned
C
and yet still demanded more
Am
He did a bloody good job
B
in taming the poor
Em
Now I'm rather more subtle, I say,
C
I'll tell you what I will do
A
B
I'll do everything I can to try and help you
Em
And you'll be helping me, I say,
C
and I'll see that you're alright
Am
A
You can have a place of your own,
Am
B
you can even pretend to be white
Em
And you won't have to worry,
C
I'll have a quiet word with your mates
Em
Am
Oh they'll be alright,
Em
they'll have enough on their plate
I'll put a bit in their mouths,
C
you just pull hard on the reins
Am
They'll do anything for you and
Em
they won't complain
You'll be so much better off, I say,
C
you can share my paradise
A
Just sign my piece of paper
Am
B
and I'll organize your life
Em
And it never fails, it does the trick,
C
it works every time
Am
A
B
So me and my dear wife and
the family's doing fine
Em
Great granddad got his dukedom
C
when slavery was abolished
Am
Dear old dad became a viscount
B
when the Empire was finished
Em
But times have changed
Verse 2
for the better
C
with freedom of choice
Am
We're a thousand times richer,
B
Em
QED His Master's Voice
A dog stares into a gramophone trumpet,
waits for its call to action
Mute and obedient, standing to attention
Look a little closer,
C
the dog is a woman
Am
She's working under a system that
B
Em
she can't understand
C
Trapped inside a world of labor and heat
Am
A
So that she and her children
Em
will be able to eat
F#m
B
The trumpet is patriarchy, it's
C
Em
old and fixed
A
Am
B
Where poor men are lured
C
Em
G
by desire to be rich
Em
F#m
Where the limited power is
C
G
still given to men
Em
Am
C
Where development aid is
B
G
so wastefully spent
F#m
Em
F#m
Where western education
G
C
enforces this crap
G
Em
Am
B
Where women work in the open,
C
G
yet live in a trap
Em
F#m
C
G
There's one solution, and this is it
Em
Am
The dog leaps on the gramo
C
Em
phone and has a shit
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