Pete Seeger – Newspapermen (Guitar)

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B                                      F#7
Oh, newspapermen meet such interesting people!

                                     B
He knows the low-down (now it can be told)

                                     F#7
I'll tell you quite reliably off the record

                                  B
About some charming people I have known
For I meet politicians, and grafters by the score
C#                F#                         F#7
Killers plain and fancy, it's really quite a bore

    B                                  F#7
Oh, newspapermen meet such interesting people!
He wallows in corruption, crime, and gore Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city desk; Hold the press, Hold the press; Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
                       B
It's a mess, meets the test

                                       F#7
Oh, newspapermen meet such interesting people!

                                B
It's wonderful to represent the press
B F#7 B
B                            F#7
Now, you remember Mrs. Sadie Smuggery
She needed money for a new fur coat
   B                           F#7
To get insurance, she employed skullduggery

                                  B
She up and cut her husband's only throat
She chopped him into fragments, she stuffed him in a trunk
    F#7
She shipped it all back yonder to her uncle in Podunk

     B                                  F#7
Now, newspapermen meet such interesting people!

                                       B
It must have startled poor old Sadie's unc

              F#7
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city desk;

                         B
Hold the press, Hold the press;

       F#7
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

                       B
It's a mess, meets the test

                                          F#7
Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people!

                                B
It's wonderful to represent the press
B F#
     B                                  F#7
Now, newspapermen meet such interesting people!
I've met the gal with million-dollar knees Oh, so the guy who sat five years upon a steeple;
                                       B
Just where the point was I could never see

          F#7                                      B
Yes, I've met Capone and Hoover, and lots of other fakes

          F#               F#7
I've even met a genius who swallows rattlesnakes

      B                                   F#7
Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people!
The richest girl who could not bake a cake Ting-a-ling Ting-a-ling Ting-a-ling
     B                                 F#7
Now, newspapermen are such interesting people!
They used to work like hell just for romance
    B                   F#7
But finally, the movies notwithstanding

                                       B
They all got tired of patches on their pants
They organized a union to get a living wage
     C#7               F#            E
They joined with other actors upon a living stage

    B                                 F#7
Now newspapermen are such interesting people

                                               B
When they know they've got a people's fight to wage
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, Newspaper Guild
F#7
Got a free new world to build;
Meet the people, that's a thrill
                      B
All together fits the bill

                                       F#7
Now, newspapermen are such interesting people!

                                B
It's wonderful to represent the Guild
B F#7
    B                               F#7
Oh, publishers are such interesting people!

                            B    F#7
Their policy's an acrobatic thing

     B                               F#7
They claim they represent the common people

                                     B
It's funny Wall Street never has complained
But the publishers have worries, for publishers must go
   C#                F#
To working folks for readers, and big shots for their dough

         G#m                             F#7
Now, are publishers are such interesting people!
It could be press-titution, I don't know
                         B
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, circulation

              F#7
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, advertising

                            B
Get those readers, get that payoff
What a headache, what a mess
                                    F#7
Oh, publishers are such interesting people!

                                           B
Let's give three cheers for freedom of the press