Tax Free
| Add9 | |[ch]Dm6/A[/ch] | |
|G/A A | G/A |[ch]Dm6/A[/ch] | |
Aadd9
Front rooms Back rooms
[ch]C#/F[/ch]
Slide into tables
Crowd into bathrooms
F#9
Joke around Cheap talk
A/G Aadd9
Deep talk Talk, talk, talk around the clock
Crawl home,Lie down
[ch]C#/F[/ch]
Teeth chatter Heart pounds
F#9
I don't feel so good I don't feel so good
A/G
Push a button to escape
A
Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!"
[ch]Dm6/F[/ch] G/B
There's evil in this land
"Rock and roll music!")
A/C#
"Cast down these dope-fiends
Ebm7-5
And there noisy bands!"
"Damn their souls!"
Esus4 E
Preacher preaching love like vengeance
[ch]Dsus4/E[/ch] D/E
Preaching love like hate
Esus4 E
Calling for large donations
[ch]Dsus4/E[/ch] D/E
Promising es tates
Esus4 E
Rolling lawns and angel bands
[ch]Dsus4/E[/ch] D/E
Behind the pearly gates
Esus4 E
He will have his in this life
[ch]Dsus4/E[/ch] D
But yours will have to wait
Add9
He's immaculately tax free
("Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ...")
[ch]Dm6/F[/ch] Add9
Tax free
("Hundreds and millions of dollars")
G/A A
Tax free
E/F#
("A hundred billion dollars!
And who is paying the price?
Who, who
("Your children are")
Aadd9
Pissed off
Jacked up
[ch]C#/F[/ch]
Scream into the mike
F#9
Spit into the loving cup
Strut like a rooster
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March like a man
A/G
God's hired hands and the devil bands
Aadd9
Packing the same grandstands
Different clothes
("Pot in their pockets!")
Different hair
("Sexually active")
[ch]C#/F[/ch]
Raise a screaming guitar or a bible in the air
F#9
Theatre of anguish
Theatre of glory
A/G
God's hired hands and the devil bands
Aadd9
Oh come let us adore---ME!
[ch]Dm6/F[/ch] G/B
Lord, there's danger in this land
A/C#
You get witch-hunts and wars
Ebm7-5
When church and state hold hands
Fuck it!
Esus4 E
Tonight I'm going dancing
[ch]Dsus4/E[/ch] D/E
With the drag queens and the punks
Esus4 E
Big beat de liver me
[ch]Dsus4/E[/ch] D/E
From this sanctimonious skunk
Esus4 E
We're no flaming angels
[ch]Dsus4/E[/ch] D
And he's not heaven sent
Esus4 E
How can he speak for the Prince of Peace
[ch]Dsus4/E[/ch] D/E
When he's hawk-right militant
Add9
And he's immaculately
tax free
[ch]Dm6/A[/ch]
("Our nation has lost its guts!")
Save me
G/A A
("Our nation has lost its strength")
G/A A
Tax free
[ch]Dm6/A[/ch]
("Our nation has whimpered and cried")
Save me
Add9
("And petted the Castros")
Tax free
[ch]Dm6/A[/ch]
("The Khomeinis' and the Kaddafis'")
Save me
G/A Aadd9
("For so long")
Tax free
[ch]Dm6/A[/ch]
("That we don't know how to act like a man")
E/F#
Save me
"I think that we should turn the United States Marines
loose on that little island south of Florida and
stop that problem!"
"I am preachin' love, I am!"
Transcription and chart
Peter Kruger
casparus60@yahoo.com
