Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger - The Media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gF7a7wbbJ4
A* = A/E = 2400
D* = A/D = 2250
Dm = A/D/F = 2210
G = [ch]B/D[/ch]/G = 0232
[numbers indicate fingerings on a standard GCEA-tuned ukulele]
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Every second of every minute, every hour of every day
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The babblers work at building Babel; listen to what they say
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Reading the news and feeding their views to the minds of a captive nation
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Blending fact and fantasy: the official interpretation
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Every night in a billion rooms a billion minds are fed
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On a diet of pre-digested pap prepared by talking heads
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Opinion-makers, phonies and fakers, talking to earn their pay
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Gazing out of their plastic world and talking our lives away
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Every time that a working man or woman demand their rights
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The talking machine works overtime to prove that black is white
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Strikers are traitors, paid agitators; miners are surly brutes
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But don't let the viewers see the coppers teaching 'em with their boots
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Every day the smooth-faced pundits forecast on the box
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The miners' strike was lost they said and Scargill on the rocks
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Lies, defamation, misinformation, that was the testing time
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He kept faith with the men who elected him - and that is a major crime
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Every time there's a striking Pole, the lads at the BBC
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And the Thatcher mob weep crocodile tears: "Hurrah for Democracy"
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The Sun and the Mail both joyfully hail the Poles' solidarity
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Let British workers go on strike, they sing in a different key
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For solidarity's good for Poles - but not for you and me
