Chumbawamba – More Whitewashing (Guitar)

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[Intro] G D C C D G D C C D [Part A 1]
G             D                    C     C   D
  Children in school forced to the desk

G            D                   C     C   D
  Finger the atlas and study the text

G           D                   C     C   D
  Lies and opinion presented as fact

G             D                  C    C   D
  Taught to accept, and never to ask
[Part B 1]
G
Those smiling workers in Ladybird books

D
They're not picking coffee at all

C
They're busy with bricks and mortar

D
Building the company wall
[Part A 2]
G            D             C     C   D
  Flickering pictures hypnotise

G              D                      C      C   D
  We spend our lives watching others' lives

G          D              C
  Too much watching to realise

C   D                G               D                  C    C   D
      That this is a smokescreen and this is why people die
[Part B 2]
G
Those smiling news presenters

D
They're not reading cue-cards at all

C
They're busy with brush and bucket

D
Whitewashing the company wall
[Part A 3]
G              D               C     C   D
  Set yourself up and play it again

G           D              C     C   D
  Force the tears and entertain

G              D               C      C   D
  Sing about a world of make-believe

G            D           C      C   D
  Force this charity and leave
[Part B 3]
G
Rich people who claim to know what's wrong with this world

D
Can't know anything at all

C
They're busy giving the orders

D
For us to build their second homes
[Interlude]
G            D             C      C   D
  Flickering pictures hypnotise

G            D             C      C   D
  Flickering pictures hypnotise
[Part B 4]
G                   D
And we who take the orders
(Flickering pictures hypno-
C             C           D
And refuse to question it all
tise)
G                         D
We're busy with spade and Bible
(Flickering pictures hypno-
C           C     D
Burying the poor
tise) [Part A 4]
G              D                      C           C     D
  We spend our lives watching others' lives
(Burying the poor Burying the poor)
G            D              C
    Too much watching to realise
(Burying the poor Burying the
C     D                G               D                  C           C     D N.C.
        That this is a smokescreen and this is why people die
poor Burying the poor) [Interlude] Am C#m D D [Part C]
Am                    C#m
Mass-manufactured and given away

D                   D
Blinkers to get you through your day

Am                                  C#m
So you'll never ever know to what extent you're involved

D                       D
Easily fooled, all your problems solved

Am                        C#m
You'll say starvation has nothing to do with you

D                          D
You saw it in print, so it must be true

Am                    C#m
And the documentary explained it all

D                       D
It's a simple matter of birth control
[Drum Fill] N.C. N.C. [Outro] N.C. And if you send a little money you can sleep tonight N.C. Or starve in sympathy on a Limmits Diet N.C. And you know that charity cures malnutrition N.C. And hunger put the sparkle back in television
Am                             C#m
Hunger put the sparkle back in television

D                              D
Hunger put the sparkle back in television

Am                             C#m
Hunger put the sparkle back in television

D                              D
Hunger put the sparkle back in television