Chords for Dire Straits - Industrial Disease (1982)

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_ _ So then the walls came [D] down, as a meeting in a boardroom, they're trying to trace the [A] smell,
as a leaking in a washroom, there's a sneaking personnel.
[E] Somewhere in a corridor, someone [D] was said to [A] sneeze, goodness me, could this be industrial disease?
Caretaker was crucified, sleeping on his post, refusing to be classified, it's him they blame the most.
Watchdog or rabies, the foreman got a palace, everyone concerned about industrial disease.
[D] Hispanic on the switchboard, turning the knobs, [A] some come out with sympathy, some come out with [E] spots.
Some blame the management, some the [D] employees, [A] everybody knows it's the industrial disease. _
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_ [G] _ [A] _ _ In either workforce, it's disgusted, down, stool, box, innocence, is injured, experience, just talk,
everyone seeks damages, and everyone agrees that these are tragic symptoms of a monetary exploit.
[D] On ITV and BBC, they talk about the [A] curse, philosophy is useless, geology worse.
[E] Mystery was over, there's an [D] economic tree, [A] sociology's in bad words, they blame industrial [D] disease.
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_ [G] _ [A] _ _ _ Dr.
Parkinson, the plan, I'm not surprised to see you here, you've got smokers caught from smoking,
brewers stripped from drinking beer, I don't know how you came to get the Nettie Davis disease,
but worst of all, young man, you've got industrial disease.
[D] You wrote me a prescription, you said, you are depressed, [A] I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest.
[E] Come back and see me later, next [D] patient please, [A] send him in, I've evicted my industrial disease.
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[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] send him [D] in. _
_ [G] _ [A] _ _ _ Knuckle down, the speaker's corner, I'm a thunderstruck, they got free speech, tourists, police, and trucks.
Two men say they're Jesus, what else could be wrong?
This protest singer, he's singing a protest song, he [D] says, they wanna have a war, keep their factories.
[A] They wanna have a war, keep the colonies.
[E] They wanna have a war to stop the spying [D] Japanese.
[A] They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease.
They're pointing out the enemy, they're keeping death in the line.
They wanna stop your energy, they're passing with your mind.
Give me a real Britannia, Gassie, DFX, three, two weeks in Hispania, and Sunday stripping.
[D] Meanwhile, Jesus says, I'm curing soon, [A] abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons.
[E] You're the ones having on hunger strike, just dying [D] by degrees.
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