Chords for Judy Collins - Marat/Sade

_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Four years after the [Eb] revolution and the old king's [Fm] execution,
Four years after, remember how those [Eb] courtiers took their final [Fm]
bow.
_ [Bbm] [Bb] String up every _
[Fm] _ [Bb] aristocrat,
Bound to the priests [Bbm] and let them live on their [C] flat.
[F] _ _ Four years after we started [Eb] fighting, Mara keeps on with his writing,
[Fm] Four years after the Bastille [Eb] fell, he still recalls the old [Fm] battle yell.
_ _ [Bbm] _ Down with all of the ruling [Fm] class,
[Bbm] Throw all the generals [Fm]
out on [Bb] their [C] ass.
_ [Fm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
Why do they have the gold?
Why do they have the power?
[Bb] Why, [Ab] why, [Bb] why, [Cm] why, why,
Do they have the friends [F] at the top?
_ _ [Cm] Why do they have the jobs at [F] the top?
_ [Eb] We've got [F] nothing, always has [Cm] been,
Nothing but holes, _ have them [Bb] living in [Ab] holes,
[Fm] Dying in holes, [Gm] [Cm] holes in our [Bb] bellies and holes [Eb] in our clothes. _ _
[Ab] Mara, [Gb] _ [Db] we're _ poor,
_ _ And the poor [Abm] stay poor. _ _ _ _ _
Mara, [Db] don't _ make _ [Eb]
us [Db] wait _ _ [Abm] anymore. _
_ _ _ [B] We _ want our _ rights,
_ [Abm] And we [Bb] don't [Eb] care how, _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ We [Ebm] _ [E] want [Db] our _ [Abm] [Dbm] revolution,
_ _ _ [G] _ _
_ Now. _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
Four years he fought, and he fought unafraid,
_ _ Sniffing down traitors by traitors [Abm] betrayed.
_ Marat in the courtroom, Marat underground,
[Gb] _
Sometimes the otter and sometimes the hound,
[Dbm] _ [Ebm] Fighting [Dbm] all the [Gb] gentry [Dbm] and fighting every beast,
[Abm] The businessman, the bourgeois, the military beast.
[Dbm] _ Marat always [Abm] ready [Dbm] to stifle every scheme
[B] Of the sons of [E] the ass-licking dying [B] regime.
[Gbm]
We've got new generals, our leaders are new,
[E] They sit and they argue, and all that they do
[Gbm] Is sell their own colleagues and ride a _ [E] bus,
Or jail them, or break them, or give them more.
_ _ [Bm] Screaming in languid _ _ _ of [A] the rights that we grabbed
With our own bleeding hands,
[Bm] When we wiped out the monarchy,
And stormed through the wall,
[Gbm] Of the prison they told us would outlast us all. _ _ _ _ _
[A] Marat [B] we're poor, _ _
And the poor [Gbm] stay _ poor,
_ _ _ _ Marat [B] don't play _ _ _ _ us.
_ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ [A]
We want our _ _ rights,
And [Gbm] we [Ab] don't [Db] care how.
_ _ _ [Gbm] We _ [Dbm] _ [D]
[Gbm] want our _ [G] revolution, _ _ _
_ _ _ Now! _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [A] _ _
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[D] Poor old Marat, they hunt you down,
The bloodhounds are sniffing [G] all [Em] over [Gbm] the town,
Just yesterday [Bm] your printing press
Was [Gbm] smashed, now they're asking [G] your home _ [A] address.
_ _ Poor [D] old Marat, [G] in you we [A] trust,
[D] You work till your [G] eyes turn as red [D] as rust,
[Gbm] But while you write, [Bm] they're on your track,
[Gbm] The boots mount the [G] staircase,
The door's [Em] thrown back.
[Gb] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [Em]
Poor [Bm] old Marat, _ [Em] _ [Bm] _ [Em] in [Gb] you [Bm] we trust,
_ [Gbm] You work till [Bm] your eyes turn [Gbm] as _ _ _ [D] red [G] _ [A] as rust.
Poor [Gb] old Marat, [G] we trust [A] _
in [Gm] you.
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [G] _ [C] Marat [G] we're poor, _
_ _ _ _ _ And the poor stay [D] _ poor,
[Dm] _ _ _
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[F] _ We want our _ _ rights,
_ [Dm] And we [E] don't _ [A] care how.
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _
We [Am] _ [Bb] want [Dm] our _ _ [G] revolution,
_ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _
Now! _ _ _ _ _ _
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