Government man Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D]

[Verse 1]
With a [D]job, my job, you get well paid
[Dm]Big four -driv[D]ing holidays
[Dm]Keep your [G]mouth shut, do the work
[C]Think [G]of [D]all those bonus perks
[Dm]Just [D]keep qui[A]et and hold the line
[Dm]You'll [D]be a government man in time
Well, the government does [Bm]whatever it [D]wants
[Dm]And [D]they don't wan[Dm]t
us to [G]make [Bm]a fus[D]s[G][D]
[Dm]Litt[G]le people are just shoved aside
Not [D]even from Solva,
[Bm]don't ask me [D]why[Bm][D]
[A]Just keep quiet and take your pay
You'll be a [D]government [G]man [D]that way
Well, [Dm]here I was ridin' along
[D]In [Dm]a new Ford drive
with my government job
I [G]look out the window at my beautiful land
An[Dm]d I realize the government
[Ddim]don't gi[Dm]ve a[D]
[Dm]They [D]want [A]us to live on the little plain
And they tie [G]me up as a
government name
[D]Well, that's when I start [Bm]to
speak right [D]out[Bm]
[D]Before I write South Culture
[Bm]an d[D] tha[Bm]t's [G]hel[Dm]l
For [G]we've been living
under our own law
Before [Dm]a thousand ge[A]n
era[Bm]tions of [D]law[Bm]
Well, [A]next thing I knew
I was shown my door
And I wasn't a government man no more
[D]Well, [Dm]that's how i[D]t is if you
got [Dm]brain[D]s
That's how it is if you got brains
I didn't keep quiet, now I don't get paid
Well, I didn't keep quiet,
now I don't get paid
I [G]had to make a stand, I couldn't renege
Had to make a stand, I couldn't renege
No mat[Dm]ter how [D]big my paycheck
No matter how big my paycheck
The [A]government don't
want me in the road
So I found [D]me another [G]way [D]to go
I'm gonna [Dm]help my [D]people where I can
Help my people [Bm]where I [D]can
I don't wanna be a government man
Don't wanna be a government man
I'm gonna [G]hold them tight,
hold my country
Hold them tight, hold my country
And I [D]don't care what the
government think of me
Don't care what [Bm]the
government [D]think of
[A]I'll always be an animal man
Never gonna be a government man