Pete Seeger – Garbage (Guitar)
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[Verse]
Dm Mister Thompson calls the waiter, orders steak and baked potato A7 (Then) he leaves the bone and gristle and he never eats the skin
The busboy comes and takes it, with a cough contaminates it
Dm (And he) puts it in a can with coffee grounds and sardine tins A7 Dm And the truck comes by on Friday and carts it all away Gm C A thousand trucks just like it are converging on the Bay
[Chorus]
Dm Oh, Garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage A7 We're filling up the seas with garbage
What will we do when there's no place left
Dm
To put all the garbage[Verse]
Dm Mr. Thompson starts his Cadillac and winds it down the freeway track A7 Leaving friends and neighbors in a hydrocarbon haze
He's joined by lots of smaller cars all sending gases to the stars
Dm There to form a seething cloud that hangs for thirty days A7 Dm And the sun licks down into it with an ultraviolet tongue Gm C (Till it) turns to smog and then it settles in our lungs
[Chorus]
Dm Oh, Garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage A7 We're filling up the skies with garbage Dm What will we do, when there's nothing left to breathe but garbage
[Verse]
Dm Getting home and taking off his shoes he settles with the evening news A7 While the kids do homework with the TV in one ear
While Superman for thousandth's time sell talking dolls and conquers crime
Dm (They) dutifully learn the date of birth of Paul Revere A7 Dm In the paper there's a piece about the mayor's middle name Gm C (And) he gets it done in time to watch the all-star bingo game
[Chorus]
Dm Oh, Garbage A7 We're filling up our minds with garbage A7 What will we do when there's nothing left to read A7 And there's nothing left to need A7 There's nothing left to watch A7 There's nothing left to touch A7 There's nothing left to walk upon A7 And nothing left to ponder on A7 Nothing left to see Dm And nothing left to be but garbage
[Verse]
Dm In Mr. Thompson's factory they're making plastic Christmas trees A7 Complete with silver tinsel and a geodesic stand
The plastic's mixed in giant vats, from some conglomeration that's
Dm Been piped from deep within the Earth, or strip-mined from the land A7 Dm And if you ask them questions they say "why don't you see? Gm C It's absolutely needed for the economy."
[Chorus]
Dm Oh, garbage, garbage, garbage A7 Their stocks and their bonds all garbage A7 What will they do when their system go to smash A7 There's no value to their cash A7 There's no money to be made A7 That there's a world to be repaid A7 Their kids will read in history book A7 About financiers and other crooks A7 And feudalism and slavery A7 And nukes and all their knavery A7 To history's dustbin they're consigned, A7 Dm Along with many other kinds of garbage