Misc Unsigned Bands – Citizen Smart - Bedroom Tax Song (Guitar)

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[VERSE 1]
D                           A
I'm a welfare state wean, we live on the bottom flair

                            D
But we're no allowed to even live there any mair.

    G                                    D
They say we've got too many rooms, in our social rented flat

        A                                                  D
We've an eight by ten foot boxroom where you cannae swing a cat
[CHORUS]
D                                 A
Oh ye canna have a spare room in a pokey cooncil flat

                                   D
Ian Duncan Smith and Co have put an end tae that

    G                                   D
They say "live in a smaller house", they say that is their plan

        A                                               D
When the odds against you finding one are ninety-nine to one
[VERSE 2]
D                                          A
Noo ma auntie's in a wheelchair, but these Tories dinna care

                                   D
They say they have a deficit, she got to pay her share

G                          D   
£60 a month they'll take, then leave her tae her fate

        A                                                          D
Whilst gieing millionaires a tax cut, cause they say they're due a break
[CHORUS]
D                                 A
Oh ye canna have a spare room in a pokey cooncil flat

                                   D
Ian Duncan Smith and Co have put an end tae that

    G                                   D
They say "live in a smaller house", they say that is their plan

        A                                               D
When the odds against you finding one are ninety-nine to one
[VERSE 3]
D                                  A
Noo that Buckingham Palace looks a pretty roomy gaff

                                      D
And the ludger there gets benefits at rates that make me laugh

  G                                    D
A civil list, plus perks, worth nearly ninety million pounds

         A                                        D
With her other dozen mansions lying empty a' year round
[CHORUS]
D                                 A
Oh ye canna have a spare room in a pokey cooncil flat

                                   D
Ian Duncan Smith and Co have put an end tae that

    G                                   D
They say "live in a smaller house", they say that is their plan

        A                                               D
When the odds against you finding one are ninety-nine to one
[VERSE 4]
D                                       A    
Noo those MPs doon in Westminster must think that we're 'a dense

                                           D
Wi their second home apartments, where the public pays their rent

     G                              D
They even get a food allowance, two hundred quid a week

            A                                                        D
But they're claiming we're the scroungers, is their arse up in their cheeks?
[CHORUS]
D                                 A
Oh ye canna have a spare room in a pokey cooncil flat

                                   D
Ian Duncan Smith and Co have put an end tae that

    G                                   D
They say "live in a smaller house", they say that is their plan

        A                                               D
When the odds against you finding one are ninety-nine to one
[VERSE 5]
D                                       A
So we've formed a Federation and we're gonna have our say

                                  D
The Bedroom Tax it has to go, and we ain't gonna pay

  G                               D
We're gonna march on London tae demand our civil rights

     A                                 D
Like nae mair Tories and their Liberal shite
[CHORUS]
D                                 A
Oh ye canna have a spare room in a pokey cooncil flat

                                   D
Ian Duncan Smith and Co have put an end tae that

    G                                   D
They say "live in a smaller house", they say that is their plan

        A                                               D
When the odds against you finding one are ninety-nine to one