Tom: G major
Verse 1
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Everybody, listen while I sing.
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High cost of living is a terrible thing.
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Every day you go into a store,
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prices at the ceiling just a little bit more.
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Buy some potatoes, some meat for stew,
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all you got left is a penny or two.
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D
what do you see?
It's only half as big as
it used to be
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Forty pence butter, ninety pence meat
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How in the world can a poor man eat?
there's hell to pay
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Food goes up in the same old way
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Gold getting higher,
the kids gotta dress
is anybody's guess?
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Even the mice that in the kitchen sing
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Are down on their knees for food and drink
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G
D
The price of food, my clothes and the phone I'm
starving to death with nothing at all
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Forty pence butter, ninety pence meat
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How in the world can a poor man eat?
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You remember the days when
butter and meat
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Were natural food for people to eat
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I never had much as I now recall
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Nowadays I'm lucky if I eat at all
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Livin' in hope that I'll eat some day
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Before my body just goes waste away
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G
D
If they don't cut down the price of a cow I can't even linger,
I'll starve right now
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Forty pence butter and ninety pence meat
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G
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How in the world can a poor man eat?
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When you ask the cause of it all,
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and you align about ten feet tall
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D
Moan and groan and tear the hair,
the high cost of being a millionaire
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Fill all the pages in all of the press,
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to blame it on the minors of the
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UCF
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The people who took the milk from the school,
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still think we're easy food
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Forty pence butter, ninety pence meat
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D
How in the world can a poor man eat?
hard all your life
Supporting your kids and
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sometimes your wife
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The cost of aid could
make you sick
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Something's gotta happen,
happen quick
Prime
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Minister's working hard every day
Figuring out how to
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keep down your pain
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Action time, we're rockin' folk
Singin' this song when
we're goin' to vote
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Forty fans clutter and ninety fans meet
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How in the world can a poor man eat?
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