Chords for Iris Dement Wasteland Of The Free

[C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ Living in [G] a place lined up with [C] police
_ _ We've _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] got preachers stealing [C] in politics and diamond _ vines
_ _ _ [G] And their speech is growing [C] increasingly _ unkind _
_ _ [Am] _ And they say they're Christ's disciples
[F] They don't look like Jesus to me
[C] And I feel like I am [G] living in a _ [C] wasteland of the free _ _
_ _ _ _ We've [G] got politicians [C] running races on corporate _ cash
Now don't [G] tell me they don't [C] turn around and kiss those people's [Am] ass
_ You may call me old-fashioned
[F] But I don't fit my picture of a true democracy
[C] And I feel like I am [G] living in a _
[C] wasteland of the free _ _
We've _ _ _ [G] got _ [C] CEOs making 200 times the workers' pay
_ They [G] fight like [C] hell against raising the minimum wage _
[Am] _ And if you don't like it, mister, they'll [F] ship your job across the sea
And I feel [C] like I am _ [G] living in a [C] wasteland of the free
_ Living _
[F] _ _ _ [Dm] in a _ wasteland [C] of the free
_ Where _ _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ poor people are treated [Am] like the enemy _ _ _ _
[F] _ Last way, [C] more troubles on the bleep
[E] Once it sounds like some [Am] kind of Hitler [F] remedy
Living [Dm] in a _ wasteland [C] of the free _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] We've got little kids [C] with guns fighting intercity wars
But _ _ [G] what do we do?
We [C] put our kids behind prison doors
[Am] And we call ourselves an advanced [F] civilization
That sounds like crap to me
And [C] I feel like I am [G] living in a _
[C] wasteland of the free
_ _ We're _ _ _ _ [G] killing for oil and [C] then we'll throw a party if we win _
_ _ _ [G] Somebody refuses to [C] fight like that called a sin _ _
[Am] _ We're standing up for what we believe [F] in
That seems pretty damn American to me
And [C] I feel like I am [G] living in a _
[C] wasteland of the free
_ Living _
[F] _ _ _ [G] in a _ wasteland [C] of the free _ _ _ _ _
[E] Where _ _ poor working people [Am] get treated like the enemy _ _ _ _
[F] _ Last way, [C] more troubles on the bleep
[A] Once it sounds [E] like some [Am] kind of Hitler [F] remedy
_ Living [G] in a wasteland of the [C] free
_ _ While _ _ _
[F] _ _ we [C] sit floating in our [A] great [E] mess
Justice [Am] sinks to the bottom of the sea
Living _ [F] _ _ _
in a [G] wasteland of the [C] free _
Living _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
in [G] a wasteland of [C] the free _ _
Living _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
in [G] a wasteland of the [C] free _ _
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