...THE WORLD ISN'T FAIR... by Randy Newman
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*from 'Bad Love' (1999)*
Verse 1:
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When Karl Marx were a boy,
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He took a hard look a-round.
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He saw people were starving,
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All over the place,
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While others were painting the town.
Verse 2:
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The public spirited boy,
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Became a public spirited man.
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So he worked very hard,
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And he read everything,
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Un-til he came up with a plan.
Bridge 1:
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There'll be no exploi-tation,
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Of the worker or his kin.
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No dis-crimi-nation,
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'Cos the colour of your skin.
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No more private proper-ty,
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Private proper-ty,
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It would not be allo-wed;
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No one could rise too high,
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No one could sink too low,
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Or go under com-pletely,
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Like some we all know.
Verse 3:
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If Marx were living to-day,
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He'd be rolling a-round in his grave.
Dm Am
And if I had him here,
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In my mansion on the hill,
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I'd tell him a story;
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T'would give his old heart a chill.
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It's something that happened to me.
Break:
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I'd say, Karl I recently stumbled,
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Into a new fami-ly.
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With two little children in school,
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Where all little children should be.
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I went to the orien-tation,
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All the young mommies were there.
Verse 4:
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Karl, you never have seen,
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Such a glorious sight,
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As these beautiful women,
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Ar-rayed for the night.
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Just like Countesses, Empresses,
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Movie stars and queens.
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And they'd come there with,
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With men much like me;
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Froggish men, un-pleasant to see.
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Were you to kiss one, Karl;
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Merry a prince would there be.
Chorus 1:
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See Karl, the world isn't fair,
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It isn't and never will be.
Gm7 F
They tried out your plan;
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It brought misery in-stead.
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If you'd seen how they worked it,
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You'd be glad you were dead.
Bb F
Just like I'm glad I'm living,
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In the land of the free,
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Where the rich just get richer,
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And the poor you don't ever have to see.
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It would de-press us, Karl,
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Because we care,
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That the world still isn't...fair.
Outro:
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)
