Chords for Candide - What's the use? (LuPone/Olsen/Herrera/McElroy)

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_ I have always been [Em] wily and clever at deceiving and [F#m] swindling and such.
[G] I feel just as [Am] clever as a [E] but I feel I catch oh I'm losing my touch.
[Bm] _ _ [A] Get me [C] my employer.
_ [A] [G] All I get is my daily spaghetti.
[E] Well it goes [D] _ _
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[A] _ [D] to feeding [A] and oh so wrong.
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[F#m] That old hag is no [Em] use in this gyp joint.
Not a soul have I made on [F#m] her yet.
And [G] the one thing that pays in [Am] this clip joint is my [E] fraudulent game of roulette.
It's my game [D] of roulette.
[Bm] But I have to pay so [A] much protection [Am] to the chief of police and his [D] men
[G] that each day when he makes his [Am] collection I'm a poor man [D] all over again.
What's the use?
What's the [Bm] use?
I'm [A] dishonest and devil and [D] being so clever.
It's all oh so [Bm] wrong.
You just have to cross him [D] along. _
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_ It's a very fine [Em] thing to be prefect.
Shaking down all the [F#] gamblers in town.
[G] My position [Am] has only one defect.
[E] That there's someone who's shaking [D] me down.
Who is shaking me down?
[Bm] For this fellow [A] unhappily knows me.
[Am] And he's unto the game [D#] that I [G] play.
And he flees into shame [Am] and expose me.
If I do [A] not [E] incessantly pay.
What's the use?
[D] What's the [D#] use?
All this sneaky conniving and snidey contriving.
[A] It's all oh so wrong.
If you just have to pass it [D] along. _
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_ I could live [E] very well [Em] by extortion.
But I simply can't [F#m] keep what I earn.
[G] For I haven't [Am] a sense of proportion.
And [F] let is [F#] my only concern.
It's my only [D] concern.
[Bm] I've a system that's [A] fiendishly clever.
[Am] Which I learned from a [B] croupier [G] friend.
And I should go on winning [F] forever.
But I [A] do seem to lose in the end.
What's the use?
What's [D] the use?
Oh, this cheating and bluffing.
You will not [Em] be.
It's all oh so wrong.
If you [A] just have to [D] pass it along.
Pass it [E] along.
Pass it [A] along.
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