Chords for Talking Democracy Blues

_ _ [Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Gm] This government's run into [Eb] sand, we'll soon be back in Tory [F] land.
I don't know how I'm going to stand another [Eb] ten years of that [F] lot, but that it seems is
what we've got in store.
[Eb] It's called democracy.
[F] It's got all it's cracked up [D] to be.
It's like an endless game of [Dm] cricket, each team takes turns at the wicket.
Why are [D] we watching, cheer and boo, [F] and that I fear is all we do. _
So this [Eb] team's in, the other's out, [F] and then it's turn and turnabout.
[Dm] This lot's out, that lot comes in, different faces, same old spin, [Bb] same [Eb] old system,
same old lies, [F] same old drive to privatise.
_ _ Democracy, funny game, [F] you put a cross against a name.
The Chartists and the Suffragettes all for this privilege, don't forget.
So do your duty, make your choice, thank them for giving you a voice.
[D] Next thing they've taken your [F] consent to form a bleeding government.
[Bb] _ _ Democracy [F] is called democracy.
Aren't you happy [A] that you live in a [Bb] democracy?
Our democracy, God [F] bless democracy.
Now it's time to sing the praises of [Eb] democracy.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ That cross you innocently [F] append has consequences I intended.
_ [Eb] Remember 1997 [F] for one brief spring, a glimpse of heaven.
[Bb] We thought, we hoped at least, to [F] see a fairer run society.
But in the [Eb] end, what did we get?
[F] A hollow system, run [Bb] on debt.
A system where the market [F] rules, where wealth buys, peerages and schools.
[Bb] Where everything is done to [F] groom us to behave like good [Gm] consumers, [Eb] culture of celebrity.
[F] Now we're all on CCTV.
_ _ _ [Gm] Dottie Arms, Dilshom, why [F] not?
Asylum seekers, let them rot.
[D] Lock them up for their [F] own good.
_ Cantsfield, Harlinsworth, Yarlswood.
_ [Eb] Tough on crime and immigration, [F] anti-terrorist [Dm] legislation,
use to [Gm] criminalise dissent, none [F] of that is what I meant.
Tuition fees, I suppose [F] galore, the penalty for being poor, and worst of [Eb] all, war after war.
[F]
That isn't what I voted [Dm] for.
_ _ [Bb] Democracy [F] is called democracy.
Aren't you happy that you [Bb] live in a democracy?
Our democracy, our democracy, [F] God bless democracy.
Now it's time to sing the praises [Dm] of democracy.
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ Remember [Eb] Blairs, peroration, [F] education, education, education.
Children [Eb] tested, children stressed, [F] endless targets, sats obsessed. _ _ _
[Bb] City [Eb] traders, must [F] reward them.
Post offices, can't afford them.
[D] Hail the city's endless [F] greed, bonuses are [Dm] guaranteed to soar into the stratosphere.
[F] Rich progressive, every year, hedge fund speculators loaded.
Civil liberties, eroded.
_ Torture, [Eb] MI5 [F] called Blissett, not a pretty picture is it?
The [Eb] system's riding on a bubble, [F] now the whole shebang's in [Dm] trouble.
It must end, it does [F] in tears, after 13 wasted years.
_ [G]
Ends in [Eb] one almighty crash.
_ _ _ [F] Forgive the bankers, hags of cash.
[D] Their greed it was that helped to rob [F] a million workers of their [Gm] jobs, but still the system, so it [F] goes, must be maintained.
As wider grows the gulf [Eb] between rich and poor, [Dm] [F] with still their wasting lives on war.
That isn't what [Dm] I voted for.
_ [Bb] _ [F] It's called democracy.
Aren't you happy that you live in [Bb] a democracy?
Ah, democracy, [F] God bless democracy.
Now it's time to sing the praises of democracy.
[Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] [Bb] Democracy, so fine, so [F] fair, how come it landed us with Blair?
[Eb] Gave us as our leader [F] one who thinks that he is God's own son.
_ A tricky politician who believes what he believes is true.
_ [Dm] Some think him [Eb] bumptious, vain and smug, [F] regard him as a well-bred thug.
_ _ _ [Dm] [D] Blair's an amiable guy, [F] look, he wouldn't harm a fly.
_ _ But when he [Eb] smiles, children die.
_ [F] _ _ _
I [Eb] met Blair upon the stair, [F] he had a laugh like [D] Tony Blair.
He cracked a smile, he cracked a [F] joke, a pretty straightforward sort of bloke.
[D] And a crusading politician.
[F] Democracy, that's his mission.
To spread [Eb] it here, to spread it there, [F] so everyone can have a share.
[Eb] Western democracy, the [F] prime, the surest way to civilise the backward [Eb] nation, set them free.
[F] And if they get free, [D] they must be fond of [Eb] their objections, [F] until they learn to hold elections. _ _ _ _
They call [Eb] this, I forgot to mention, [F] humanitarian intervention. _
_ Did [Eb] the slaughter his war brought [F] never give him pause, I thought.
Did the [Eb] chaos he created, the [F] country smashed and devastated,
the tortured [Eb] incarcerated, [F] the shattered millions who fled,
the [Eb] main, the half a million [F] dead, cause him to doubt or hesitate?
[Gm] Or did he simply [F] calculate that this was a price that was worth paying?
[Cm] And solved his conscience [F] by praying?
_ Well, afterwards you couldn't get from Blair a smidgen of regret.
[Gm] [D] Indeed, this [F] unrepentant man declared a wish to bomb Iran. _ _ _ _
[Eb] Liar, fantasist and [F] faker will answer only to his maker. _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ Now [Eb] fickleness for all his [F] crimes, we elected Blair three times.
_ [Bb] _ _
[F] It's called democracy.
Aren't you happy that you [Bb] live in a democracy?
Ah, democracy, God bless [F] democracy.
Now it's time to sing the praise [Bb] of democracy.
_ Ah, democracy, God bless [F] democracy.
Aren't you happy that you live [Bb] in a democracy? _ _
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