Dutiful Servants & Political Masters Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
One, [Em]two, one, two, three,
[C]four[Am][B]
[Em][C][Am][B]
[Em]Things were rather dif[C]ferent
in great grandfather's day
He just put a [Am]chain around their ankles
and made them [B]work for no pay
He took [Em]everything they owned
and yet [C]still demanded more
He did a [Am]bloody good job
in [B]taming the poor
[Em]Now I'm rather more subtle, I say,
I'll tell you what [C]I will do
I'll do [A]everything I can to [B]try and help you
And you'll be [Em]helping me, I say,
and I'll see that [C]you're alright
You can have a [Am]place [A]of your own,
you can [Am]even pre[B]tend to be white
And you [Em]won't have to worry,
I'll have a quiet word [C]with your mates
[Em]Oh they'[Am]ll be alright,
they'll have [Em]enough on their plate
I'll put a bit in their mouths,
you just [C]pull hard on the reins
They'll do [Am]anything for you and
they [Em]won't complain
You'll be so much better off, I say,
you can [C]share my paradise
Just [A]sign my piece of paper
[Am]and I'll organ[B]ize your life
And it never [Em]fails, it does the trick,
it [C]works every time
So [Am]me an[A]d my dear wife a[B]nd
the family's doing fine
Great [Em]granddad got his dukedom
when [C]slavery was abolished
Dear old [Am]dad became a viscount
when the [B]Empire was finished
But [Em]times have changed

[Verse 2]
for the better
with [C]freedom of choice
We're a [Am]thousand times richer,
[B]QED His Master's Voi[Em]ce
A dog stares into a gramophone trumpet,
waits for its call to action
Mute and obedient, standing to attention
Look a little closer,
the [C]dog is a woman
[Am]She's working under a system that
[B]she can't [Em]understand
Trapped inside a world of [C]labor and heat
So that [Am]she and [A]her children
will be [Em]able to eat
The trumpet [F#m]is pat[B]riarchy, it's
[C]old and [Em]fixed
Where [A]poor men [Am]are l[B]ured
[C]by de[Em]sire to [G]be rich
[Em]Where the limited [F#m]power is
[C]still given to men[G]
[Em]Where de[Am]velopment aid [C]is
so [B]wastefully [G]spent
[F#m]Where [Em]western educa[F#m]tion
[G]enfor[C]ces this crap
[G]Where wom[Em]en wor[Am]k in [B]the open,
[C]yet live in a t[G]rap
There's [Em]one solu[F#m]tion, and [C]this is [G]it
[Em]The dog [Am]leaps on the gramo
[C]phone and has a [Em]shit