Just Say No To Drug Hysteria (Excerpt) Chords

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[Verse 1]
Indif[G]ference is not an option.
Only outspoken insistence that drug
use will not [A]be tolerated.
[G]Everyone is obligated to be[D]come hysterical at the mere [G]thought of drug use,
just as office
workers in [Bb]1934 were ob[Bm]ligated
to [G]scream curses like
Pavlov's [Bm]frothing [D]dogs [Am]when [Bb]the
lead[F#]er appeared [G]on screen,
and they'd better scream loud and scream [A]ugly. I
[G]remember during the
Mike
Bell flap,
[F#]Eyewit[G]ness
News is [F#]go ing around prowling
the streets, you know,
[F]sticking mics in everyb[A]ody's face.
Well, [G]I think that
making the money they do, they
should be serving as an example.
Now, she gets
[F]plenty of mic [G]time.
And here's a black cat working on
some underground [A]cables,
[G]straightens up and says,
I think if someone [D]uses [G]drugs it's his own busi[A]ness.
[G]Boy did [C]they get that mic [Bm]out of his [G]face.
He didn't even get the word out.
[F#]Freedom [G]of the press to say what they
want to hear and call it the voice of
[A]the people.
Urine [G]tests.
Our [F]pioneer ancest[G]ors would piss
in their graves at the thought
of urine tests to de[Bb]cide whether
a man is [F#]competent [G]to do his job.
The measure of confidence is performance.
[A]Whe[G]n told that
General
Grant had a drinking
problem,
Lincoln said, find out what brand of whiskey
drinks and distribute it to
[A]the other generals.
[G]Dr.
Halstead, one of the great
American surgeons who
introduced antiseptic procedures at a time when surgeons,
far from donning
rubber gloves,
did not even wash their hands.
And the death rate from
post -operative infections [A]ran [G]up to 80%.
[A]Well he [G]was a lifelong morphine [A]ad dict
but he [Bb]could still hack it and hack [A]it good and
[Bm]he lost no patience be[G]cause of[Bb]
his personal [F#]habit.
[G]In those good old days a man's
personal habits were
personal [A]and private.
[Am]Now even a[G] citizen's blood and
[A]urine are subject to
arbit[Bb]rary seizure [A]and
search.
[G]Why the world's greatest detective
could not
have survived a urine [A]test.
Which is at [G]this time
Holmes cocaine or [F#]morphine?
Watson [A]asks, it's [G]rather disquieting to speculate
what [Am]may lurk be[A]hind this
[G]colossal red herring of the war against
drugs.
A war neither likely nor designed
to [Am]succeed.
[G]One thing is obvious,
[D]old [G]clean money and new dirty money are
shaking [Bb]hands [A]onto the table,
[G]an d the old tried -and -failed police approach will
continue and [A]escalate.
[G]In politics, if something doesn't work,
that is [Bb]the best
[G]reason to go on doing it.
[A]If something looks like it might work,
[G]stay [D]well away.
A thing like [Bb]that could make waves,
and the [F#]boys at the [F]top, they don't like waves.