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This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues

This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues

This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues chords

by Rodriguez

Year: 1970

Genre: Folk

Guitar
TuningE A D G B E
CapoFret 2
Transpose
EADGBE
Capo

D
G
E
A

Smart scroll

Chord Highlight

Intro 1

D

D

D

D

Verse 1

The mayor

D

hides the

crime rate

G

Council woman hesitates

D

Public gets irate

G

but forgets the vote

date

D

Weatherman complaining,

predicted

G

sun, it's raining

D

Everyone's protesting,

G

boyfriend keeps suggesting

E

You're not like

A

all of the

D

rest

Verse 2

Gar

D

bage ain't collected,

G

women ain't protected

D

Politicians using,

G

people they're abusing

The mafia's

D

getting bigger,

like pol

G

lution in the river

And you

E

tell me that

A

this is where it's

D

at

Bridge 1

G

Woke up this morning

with an

ache in my head

I

splashed on my clothes

as I

spilled out of bed

I

G

opened the window

to

listen to the news

But

A

all I heard was

the Establishment's Blues

Verse 3

Gun

D

sales are

soaring,

housewives

G

find life

boring

Divorce

D

the only answer,

G

smoking causes cancer

This

D

system's gonna fall soon,

G

to an angry young

tune

And

E

that's

a concrete

A

cold

D

fact

Verse 4

The pope

D

digs population,

G

freedom from taxation

D

Teeny Bops are uptight,

G

drinking at a stoplight

D

Miniskirt is flirting,

I

G

can't stop so I'm

hurting

E

Spinster sells

A

her hopeless

D

chest

Verse 5

Adultery

D

plays the kitchen,

G

bigot cops non-fiction

The

D

little man gets shafted,

G

sons and monies drafted

D

Living by a time

piece,

G

new war in the

Far East

Can you

E

pass

the

A

Rorschach

D

test?

Outro 1

It's a

G

hassle it's an educated

guess

Well,

A

frankly I couldn't care

D

less

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