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All songs written by Kaston Guffey
Recorded by My Politic
Short-Sighted People In Power
Standard Tuning
Intro G D G
G D G
Short-sighted people in power
C G
They’re killing us quick
G D D7
By the day by the hour
Em G
While they stack up their profits
G C
It’s never enough
Em D
But we’re the ones left here
C Em
To clean it all up
G D G
And the NRA’s pulling the trigger
C G
The body counts’ growing
G D D7
Bigger and bigger
Em G
While they stack up their profits
G C
Its never enough
Em D
We’re down on our knees
C Em G C G
Cleaning up blood
G D G
And the fossil fuel’s fueling the fires
C G
The temperature’s rising
G D D7
We’re down to the wire
Em G
While they stack up their profits
G C
It’s never enough
Em D
We’re the ones drowning
C Em G C G
And burning up
G D G
and the drug companies selling us poison
C G
Turned a whole generation
G D D7
Into addicts, for what?
Em G
So they could stack up their profits
G C
It’s never enough
Em D
We can’t afford rehab
C Em
So we just lock em up.
G D G
Damn these short-sighted people in power
C G G D D7
We can’t let em divide us from their ivory tower
Em G G C
We must come together, say enough is enough
Em D C Em
It’s gonna take every one of us to get what we want
Em D c G
Yeah it’ll take every one of us to get what we want
G D G
From these short-sighted people in power
The Wrong Side
Tuned A Half Step Down
Verse 1
G
Brown Kids in Cages
C
Black Bodies on The Ground
Am
Women With old men’s Hands
C
Covering their mouths
F
While the white folks in the red hats
G
Are cheering
F
Their kids are overdosing
D
And the truth is dissappearing
G C D
Fuck the president fuck the Gop
G C D
Fuck the folks at fox news Spreading lies on t.v
G C D
And fuck you for getting us into this And refusing to see
G C D D
It aint both sides, its one side Its your side and its the wrong side
G C D
Verse 2
G
California’s burning
C
Puerto Rico’s still a mess
Am
The saudi’s are killing journalists
C
The white house does PR for the prince
F
While the white folks in the red hats
G
are blinded
F
By the hate they have for a caravan
D
full of women and children Fleeing violence
Repeat Chorus 1x
Verse 3
G
Don’t believe what you read
C
Don’t believe what you hear
Am
Just scream lock her up and send her back
C
Fuel your anger with your fear
F
All you white folks in the red hats
G
Say you love him
F
While he weaponizes every power he has
D
And swears there aint no law above him
Repeat chorus 1x
Fantasies of A Fox News Viewer
Standard Tuning
Verse 1
G
All you hollywood elites
C
You just don’t understand us
D
We like our leaders rich
C
With no political experience
D
So what if he hates woman?
G C
I can barely stand my wife
D
So what if he hates immigrants?
C D
I’ve been taught to my whole life
G
What has happened to the white man
C
You know we like power too
D
Aint aloud to express it
C G
The way these colored people do
D
It aint like nothing bad has ever happened
G C
And if it did them men they weren’t like us
D
See we’re just trying to protect our families
C D
From people that we can’t trust
Chorus
G
I miss america
C
the way it used to be
D
When i turned on my tv
G D
all i saw was people just like me
G
I miss america
C
when i walked out my door
D
There weren’t a bunch of snow flake protests
C D
It was peaceful but it aint anymore
G C D G
I miss america
Verse 2
G
It aint my fault
C
All them indians died
D
Had to start a country some how
G C
And i here oklahoma’s nice
D
So what about slavery
G C
I was born in 1959
D
Reagan told us that they’re weak and they’re lazy
C D
Milking welfare for every dime
G
Don’t get me started on the gays
C
Or abortion, thats a sin
D
God told me through the T.V. preacher
G C
You know i put my faith in him
D
I love this country and i show it
G C
With my confederate flag in the wind
D
Its everybody else to blame
C D
For these hard times we’re living in
Repeat chorus 1X
Voter Suppression
Standard Tuning Capo 4
Intro D G D A D
D
We can’t have these black people
D
We can’t have these brown people
G
We cant have these poor people
D
We can’t have these working people
A D G D
Vote cuz they don’t like us no they don’t (no they don’t)
D G D A D
D
We got all this power people
D
We got all this power people
G
How we gonna keep this power people
D
We got all this power people
A
We can’t let em vote
G D G D
Cuz they don’t like us no they don’t (no they don’t)
D G D A D
A
Lets kick em off the voter rolls
D
Lets force these polling places closed
A
It was so much easier with a fire house
D
Or back when we could tax and test them at the polls
A
Lets make them stand in line for hours
D G
Lets keep them from voting cuz we’re all a bunch of cowards
A
Free and fair don’t mean shit to me
D G
Cuz we’re the GOP fuck democracy
A A7 D G D A D
We’re the GOP fuck democracy
Outro D A D
All American Way
Standard tuning capo 5
Am C
Can’t go jogging can’t go walking
F Am
Cant watch tv in their own fucking apartment
Am C
Can’t go shopping can’t wear a hoodie
F Am
Can’t get caught sleeping in the house they live in
Am C
Cant get caught driving cant get pulled over
F Am
Cant get caught reaching cant get caught with their arms up
G C
Cant get caught complying cant get caught denying
F Am
Can’t get caught protesting can’t get caught trying
G C
Can’t get caught living cant get caught running
F Am
Can’t get caught giving cant get caught with a broken taillight
Am C
Can’t go bird watching cant go to the pool
F Am
Cant play in the park or get caught playing the fool
G C
Can’t get caught standing can’t get caught on the ground
F Am
Cant get caught trying to get away
Am C
Can’t get caught minding their own cant get caught helping
F Am
Cant get caught playing with toys or with their hands in their pockets
G C F
Cant get caught selling loose cigarettes cant get caught yelling
Am
Can’t get caught in their own fucking bed
G C
Can’t get caught trying to breathe can’t get caught asking for help
F Am
Can’t get caught crying cant get caught taking care of themselves
Am
C F C G C F C
But try and take a white man’s haircut away
G C F
They’ll storm the state capitol, with ar-15’s
G C G C
And you can bet they’ll walk away
F C
They can shoot up black churches, they can shoot up the schools
G C
They can shoot at the cops they can shoot up the rules
F C
White folks can shoot till they’re blue in the face
G Am
You can bet they’ll walk away
C F C G F C
It’s the all american way its the all american way
C F C G F Am
Its the all american way its the all amaerican way
The Experts Told Us
Standard Tuning
G
Aint much going on
C G
It’s been that way for months now
C D
When we traded hope for darkness
C D G
I should have known that pain would come around
G
Unemployment’s dry
C G
Just like the hands on everybody
C D
Wash them to “happy birthday” two times
C D G
While the tears flood in your eyes
Chorus
C D C
The Experts Told us
D C
The science showed us
D
But the ego of the POTUS
G C
Was too big to fight off again
D C
Now everybody
D C
knows somebody
D
We all know somebody
D7 G
That died who could have lived
G
Distance is all i see
C G
Distance, the distance
C D
Six feet no hugs for instance
C D G
Or the distance between screens
G
But a whole nother kind of distance
C G
Is killing us today
C D
The space between the truth
C D G
And what this white house has to say
Repeat chorus 1X
Harmonica solo
G C G C D C D G
C D C D G
Outro
C D C
Now everybody
D C
Knows somebody
D
We all know somebody
D7 G
That died who could have lived
C D C
We all know somebody
D C
We all know somebody
D
We all know somebody
D7 G
That died who could have lived
Talkin’ RNC Blues
G
I was looking for adventure when I walked out front
C
I ain't left this house in months
D
Sittin on the porch chain smokin camels
C D G
Drinking like a drunk while the rain came down
G
So I got real high and I sat right down
C
I couldn't tell ya where I was bound
D C D G
But all of a sudden I got where I was going and buddy you won't believe what I found
C D C D G
Its crazy unbelievable
G
You see i went through a hallway , Up and down some stairs
C
I was underground a while, the roots looked like hairs
D C D G
With the humidity growing ten fold in the air I wasn’t surprised in the least
C D C D G
That I was in Florida … Jacksonville.. at The Republican national convention
G
Louis gohmert was there He was coughing on everyone
C
Gaetz was wasted and baked from a gas mask bong he was token on
D C D G
Tom cotton was armed with his white out and erasing the pages of our history
G
William p Barr Chad wolf and some others
C
Had the statue of liberty trapped in the northwestern corner
D C D G
After tear gas flash bangs and beating her silly an unmarked car drove her away
G
As I'm scanning the room I catch a glimpse of Jim Jordan
C
He's alone and he's yelling and he thinks it's important
D
Then I see Ted Cruz come over and try to console him
C D G
and he’s like “fuck off Ted, nobody likes you”
C D C D G
Poor teddy
G
Someone drew a mustache on the portrait of McCain
C
It ain't much of a mystery who would do such a thing
D C D G
The word loser with two O's covered his name and he had two horns coming out of his head
C D C G
I'll give you three guesses… Judges? captain bonespurs will work
G
Pretty soon everybody made their way to their seats
C
It was time for the show, the crowd took to their feet
D C D G
But right before that piece of shit started to speak....Mike pence walked in with.. Susan Collins
C D C D G
Just the two of them ...together
G
Now everybody knows one thing about Mike
C
Its that He can't go anywhere with a woman without the company of his wife
D
And it was right around then I woke up on the porch,
C D G
realized I was having a dream of the nightmare sort
G
Now it certainly wasn't where I wished I had gone
C
But it is where we are until election day comes
D C D G
I hope that we vote out everyone of these clowns so the next time I leave I can go out of town.
C D C D G
Please... i just want leave safely
G
So for the sake of the country vote this election day
C
By mail, absentee or the old fashioned way
D
If you have to go out make sure youve got a mask
C D G
Lets all come together and take out the trash