Misc Unsigned Bands – Hugh Laurie - A Protest Song (Guitar)

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Protest Song (SNL) – Hugh Laurie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chorded by: Koryr Email: [email protected] On October 28th, 2006, in a Saturday Night Live sketch right before Beck’s musical performance, Hugh Laurie performed an old song from his days with A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
Tuning: Standard E-A-D-G-B-E'
Harmonica Key : G
Original SNL Video : http://www.snotr.com/video/347 Note: The intro contains harmonica on the fourth and fifth bar. Laurie tends to do some hammer-ons at the optional (C). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro: | G C | G C | G C | G Bm C G | G Bm C G | G C | G C |
  G                          Bm              C                 G  (C)
Well, the poor keep getting hungry, and the rich keep getting fat

  G          Bm                C                     G  (C)
Politicians change, but they're never gonna change that.

  G              Bm               C                  G  (C)
Girl, we got the answer, it's so easy you won't believe

  Am                 D
All we gotta do is.. [ mumbles incoherently ] 
Break: | G C | G C |
  G                             Bm            C            G  (C)
Well, the winds of war are blowin', and the tide is comin' in

  G                            Bm                    C                        G  (C)
Don't you be hopin' for the good times, because the good times have already been.

  G                      Bm             C                 G  (C)
But, girl, we got the answer, it's so easy you won't believe

  Am                 D
All we gotta do is.. [ mumbles incoherently ] 

  Em           Am
It's so easy, to see

  Em                             D
If only they'd listen, to you and me.

  D          G                   C                 D
We got to.. [ mumbles incoherently ] as fast as we can

  D          G                   C                    D
We got to.. [ mumbles incoherently ] every woman, every man

  D          G                   C              D
We got to.. [ mumbles incoherently ] time after time

  D          G                   C              D
We got to.. [ mumbles incoherently ] vodka and lime.
Break: | G C | G C |
  G                         Bm            C              G  (C)
Well, the world is gettin' weary, and it wants to go to bed

  G           Bm               C                     G  (C)
Everybody's dyin', except the ones who are already dead.

  G                 Bm       C                     G  (C)        
Girl, we got the answer, starin' us right in the face

  Am
All we gotta do is

  Am
All we gotta do is

  Am
All we gotta do is.
[ pauses, then blows on the harmonica and finishes with outro ] Outro: | G Bm C G | G Bm C G | D G |