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Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger - The Media http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gF7a7wbbJ4 A* = A/E = 2400 D* = A/D = 2250 Dm = A/D/F = 2210 G = B/D/G = 0232 [numbers indicate fingerings on a standard GCEA-tuned ukulele] A* D* Every second of every minute, every hour of every day A* The babblers work at building Babel; listen to what they say
Reading the news and feeding their views to the minds of a captive Dmnation G A* Blending fact and fantasy: the official interpretation
A* D* Every night in a billion rooms a billion minds are fed A* On a diet of pre-digested pap prepared by talking heads
Opinion-makers, phonies and fakers, talking to earn their Dmpay G A* Gazing out of their plastic world and talking our lives away
A* D* Every time that a working man or woman demand their rights A* The talking machine works overtime to prove that black is white
Strikers are traitors, paid agitators; miners are surly Dmbrutes G A* But don't let the viewers see the coppers teaching 'em with their boots
A* D* Every day the smooth-faced pundits forecast on the box A* The miners' strike was lost they said and Scargill on the rocks
Lies, defamation, misinformation, that was the testing Dmtime G A* He kept faith with the men who elected him - and that is a major crime
A* D* Every time there's a striking Pole, the lads at the BBC A* And the Thatcher mob weep crocodile tears: "Hurrah for Democracy"
The Sun and the Mail both joyfully hail the Poles' solidariDmty G A* Let British workers go on strike, they sing in a different key
Dm G A* For solidarity's good for Poles - but not for you and me