Chords for The Government Game

Come all you young fellows, and list while I tell
Of the terrible _ misfortune that upon me befell
_ _ Centralization, they say, was the name
But me, I just calls it the government game
My name, it don't matter, I'm not young anymore
But in all of my days, I'd never been poor
I'd lived the right good life, and not felt no shame
Till they made me take part in the government game
My home was St.
_ [D#m] Karen's, a [C] heavenly place
It thrived on the fishing of a good hearty race
But now it will never _ again be the same
Since they made it a pawn in the government game
Sure, the government paid _ us for moving away
And leaving our _ birthplace for a better day's pay
They said that our poor lives would never be the same
Once we took part in the government game
_ It's not many years now since they all moved away
To places more prosperous way down in the bay
There's not one soul left now, not one who remains
They've all become part of the government game
Now St.
Karen's lies, they're all empty as hell
Except for [N] the graveyard where our dead parents dwell
The lives of their children are buried in shame
They lost out while playing the government game
To a place called _ Plasentia, well some of them went
And in finding a new home, their allowances spent
So for jobs they went looking, [F#] but they looked all in vain
For the roof had caved in on the government game
It's surely a sad sight, they're moving around
Oh wishing they still lived by the cod fishing ground
But there's no going back now, there's nothing to gain
Now that they've played in the government game
They tell me our young [D#] ones the benefits we'll see
But I don't believe it, oh how can it be
They'll never know nothing but [C#] sorrow and shame
For their fathers were part of the government game
And when my soul leaves me for the heavens above
Take me back to St.
_ Karen's, the place that I love
And there on my _ _ gravestone, right next to my name
[E] Just say I died playing the government [A] game _ _ _ _ _