Taxman Chords by Lucky Dube

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I _ [E] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ pay [F#m] my guard down to clean up [D] my garden.
_ _ [E] _ I pay [F#m] my top _ _ to check on [D] the other kids.
_ [E] I pay [F#m] my lawyer _ to _ fight [D] for my rights.
_ [E] And I pay [F#m] my body guard _ to drive [D] my body.
_ _ [E] _ There's only [F#m] one man I pay, _ but I don't [D] know what I'm paying [E] for.
I'm talking about [F#m] the past now.
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_ _ [E] Oh, I say, [F#m] the past now.
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No God don't [E] tell me now.
I'm in the present.
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Why have you done for me [D] lately? _
I [E] want to know where the money [F#m] goes.
Why have you done for me [D] lately? _
I'm [E] talking for you.
_ [F#m] _
Why have _ _ you [D] done for me lately?
[E] Tell me now.
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$200,000,000,000,000 of [D] taxpayers' money disappear [E] every year.
Unaccounted [F#m] for. _
_ _ You're really dead, man.
[D] You pay tax.
_ _ [E] _ _ You [F#m] _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ take [F#m] from the rich.
_ _ _ Take [D] from the poor.
_ _ [E] You even take [F#m] from me.
_ _ _ You can't [D] understand it.
_ _ [E] _ I pay [F#m] for the police.
_ _ _ You, [D] I don't know [E] why.
_ Because [F#m] if my dollar was good enough,
_ there wouldn't be [D] so much blimey this [E] week.
They tell me [F#m] you're a bad man.
_ And you [D] always take and never [E] give.
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
Why have you done for me [D] lately? _
_ [E] Tell me now.
_ [F#m] _
Why have you done for me lately?
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