Call It Democracy Chords by Bruce Cockburn

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_ _ [D] _ _ _ Here they [Em] come, international [G] loan sharks, backed by the guns [D] of market-hungry military _
[Em] profiteers, whose word is a swamp [G] and whose brow is smeared [D] with the blood of the poor. _ _
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_ [D] Who will rob life of its [A]
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[Em] Who will render [G] rage a necessity?
_ [D] By turning [A] countries into labor camps, [Em] _ modern [G] slavers have dragged us, _ _ [D] champions of freedom. _ _
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instrument [Em] who makes the gun [G] into a [D] sacrament.
They only respond to the deification [Em] of tyranny [G] by so-called [D] developed nations, _ [A] idolatry of ideology. _ _
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_ [D] North, _ [A] south, east, [Em] west, kill the [G] best and buy the rest.
Just [D] spend the profit to make a [Em] buck.
You [G] don't really give a flying fuck [D] about the people in misery.
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_ _ [A] I am _ dirty and I'm not.
[E] Takes away [F#m] everything [G] it can get.
[E] Always making certain that there's one thing left.
Keep [F#] them on the hook with [D] insupportable debts.
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[D] See the paid-off local bottom [Bm]-feeders passing [G] themselves off as leaders.
[D] Kiss the ladies, [A] shake hands with the [Bm] fellas, and hope [G] it's for business like a cheap bordello.
And [A] they call it democracy. _ _
[Em] And they call it democracy.
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[D] And they call [A] it democracy. _ _ _
[Em] And they call it [G] democracy. _ _
[D] See the loaded _ [A] eyes of the children too, [Em] trying to make the best [G] of it the way kids [D] do.
One day [A] you're gonna rise from your habitual feet [Em] to find yourself [G] staring down the throat of the [D] beef.
They call it revolution. _ _ _
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_ _ [A] I am dirty and I'm not.
[F#] Takes away everything [C] it can [A] get.
_ Always making certain that [E] there's one thing left.
Keep them on the hook [F#] with [G] insupportable debts.
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And [D] they call it [A] democracy. _ _
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And they call [A] it democracy. _ _
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And they call it democracy. _ _
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