How To Get Your Band On Tv chords by Chumbawamba

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

key of E minorEm


Intro:
E MajorE E minorEm E MajorE E minorEm
(Spoken)
E MajorE    E minorEm
I'm the Boss of the company
(Spoken)
E MajorE    E minorEm
And I've got hunger working for me
(Spoken)
A augmentedA  Am7Am7      A minorAm
Listen and you'll begin to understand
(Spoken)
E MajorE           E minorEm
I built my profits on stolen land
(Spoken)
E MajorE    E minorEm
It's the economics of supply and demand
(Spoken)
A minorAm              E MajorE
And I make the demands around here

Instrumental:
E MajorE E minorEm E MajorE FF N.C.
E MajorE G+G A7A7 E MajorE E minorEm
E MajorE G+G A7A7 E MajorE E minorEm
Em E MajorE E minorEm E MajorE E minorEm Bm7Bm7
G+G E minorEm B minorBm E7E7 G+G E MajorE E minorEm
E7E7 G+G E MajorE E minorEm E7E7 G+G E MajorE E minorEm
E7E7 G+G E MajorE E minorEm E7E7 G+G E MajorE E minorEm
E MajorE E minorEm Cmaj7Cmaj7 A major 6A6 E MajorE E minorEm Cmaj7Cmaj7 A major 6A6


Verse:
E MajorE    E minorEm   Cmaj7Cmaj7    E minorEm
Product sells, people die
E minorEm        Cmaj7Cmaj7
Same manipulation wrapped in lies
E minorEm           Cmaj7Cmaj7          A minorAm
Give a little money and play your rock and roll
E minorEm            Cmaj7Cmaj7  Am7Am7
The biggest prizes to the biggest fools

Instrumental:
C majorC A minorAm E MajorE
E minorEm E MajorE C majorC A minorAm E MajorE
C majorC A minorAm E MajorE

Verse:
(Spoken)
E MajorE
Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
(Spoken)
C minorCm       A minorAm
Welcome to the show where you the audience participate.
(Spoken)
E MajorE                 Cmaj7Cmaj7
On our show tonight we got lots of surprises in store for you at home.
(Spoken)
A minorAm  E MajorE
   In keeping with the fashion for charity,
(Spoken)
Cmaj7Cmaj7         A minorAm
not change, here's our contribution –
(Spoken)
A minorAm        E MajorE                      C majorC
we've called it Slag Aid: for every pop star that we slag off today,
(Spoken)
C majorC     A minorAm         E MajorE
 a million pounds will be given away!

{Instrumental]
C majorC A minorAm E MajorE
E D MajorD A minorAm E MajorE C majorC A minorAm

Verse:
(Spoken)
E MajorE        E minorEm   C majorC
Paul McCartney - come on down
(Spoken)
C majorC        A minorAm
With crocodile tears to irrigate this ground
(Spoken)
E MajorE
Make of Ethiopia a fertile paradise
(Spoken)
A minorAm                      E MajorE
Where everyone sings Beatles songs and buys shares in EMI
(Spoken)
Cmaj7Cmaj7
Charity, starvation, and rock and roll
(Spoken)
A minorAm      E MajorE
Let it be, eh Paulie?

{Instrumental]
C majorC A minorAm E MajorE

Verse:
(Spoken)
E MajorE               C majorC
Freddie Mercury, this is your life
(Spoken)
FF              A minorAm
Thank the Lord that you were born white
(Spoken)
E MajorE                      C majorC
And thank apartheid for this wonderful opportunity
(Spoken)
C majorC       A minorAm            GbGb
To peddle your hypocrisy in Sun City
(Spoken)
GbGb                 D MajorD
A augmentedA bit of a hot potato in a moment, eh Fred, in South Africa?
(Spoken)
B minorBm                   GbGb
Well I'm sure there's a video in there somewhere
G+G D MajorD B minorBm E MajorE C majorC

Verse:
(Spoken)
E MajorE             C majorC
David Bowie, the price is right
(Spoken)
C majorC         A minorAm             E MajorE
With a suitful of compassion and a gobful of shite
(Spoken)
E MajorE
Still the voices of those who doubt
(Spoken)
C majorC                   D9D9
Coca-Cola for the peasants to end this drought
(Spoken)
E MajorE                C majorC
David the world can only take so much
(Spoken)
A minorAm
And with you around, we're in for a really hard time
E MajorE C majorC A minorAm

Verse:
(Spoken)
E MajorE          E minorEm     C majorC
Jagger and Richards, game for a laugh
(Spoken)
C majorC     A minorAm
Dancing us down the garden path
(Spoken)
E minorEm  E MajorE
To a place where money grows on trees
(Spoken)
C minorCm            D9D9               GbGb
Where cocaine habits are financed by hunger and disease
(Spoken)
D MajorD                GbGb       D MajorD
There's only one mountain in the rock and roll business
(Spoken)
D MajorD           B minorBm          GbGb
Ladies and Gentlemen, and it's Mick Jagger
D MajorD B minorBm E MajorE C majorC A minorAm
E minorEm C majorC A minorAm E minorEm C majorC

Bridge:
A minorAm   E minorEm         C majorC     A minorAm
Ask the puppet-masters who pull the strings
E minorEm              C majorC   A minorAm
Who makes the money when the puppets sing
E minorEm          C majorC            A minorAm
Ask the corporations where does the money go
A minorAm      E minorEm                  C majorC
Ask the empty-bellied children what are we singing for

Verse:
(Spoken)
E minorEm               C majorC
And Cliff Richard, three, two, one
(Spoken)
C majorC                    D9D9
The God who remains when the religion's gone
(Spoken)
E minorEm
Cliff, we've got a special surprise for you today
(Spoken)
C majorC         A minorAm
So come up closer, step this way
(Spoken)
E minorEm
Cliff, you're such an example of moral worth
(Spoken)
Cmaj7Cmaj7            D9D9
Such a purist saint come to bless our earth
(Spoken)
E minorEm
That on behalf of our viewers watching on telly
(Spoken)
E minorEm                    FF
And on behalf of the millions with empty bellies
(Spoken)
FF  D MajorD         E minorEm
We're donating something special that we're all going to like
(Spoken)
E minorEm       A minorAm                  A7A7
Cliff Richard, we're going to nail you up to a cross tonight!

Verse:
(Spoken)
E MajorE
Ladies and gentlemen, just imagine it,
(Spoken)
C majorC           A minorAm
someone comes along, takes everything you own,
(Spoken)
A minorAm        E MajorE
your space, your house, separates you from your family and then
(Spoken)
C majorC                     A minorAm
hits you in the face if you say anything different.
(Spoken)
A minorAm   E MajorE
Well, that's what we've been doing to the third world
(Spoken)
E MajorE             C majorC
for the past four hundred years. That's you and me.
(Spoken)
A minorAm
You the viewers at home, me in the studio,
(Spoken)
E MajorE
the pop stars, everyone. That's how we make the third world,
(Spoken)
C majorC
every day, today and every day.
(Spoken)
A minorAm                D MajorD
If you want any correspondence with the program,
(Spoken)
D MajorD            G+G         E minorEm
just send your answers, letter bombs only, to BP House,
(Spoken)
E minorEm
Victoria Street, London, SW1. Thank you and good night,
(Spoken)
E minorEm
feed the world, starve the rich, goodnight!
E minorEm A minorAm B7B7

Outro:
E minorEm          A minorAm
I know there must be more
E minorEm          A minorAm
I know there must be more
E minorEm
Than giving just a little bit more
E minorEm              A minorAm     B7B7
When half of this world is so helplessly poor
E minorEm       G+G  C majorC
Starved of the real solution
E minorEm   G+G  Cmaj7Cmaj7    B7B7
Charity and tradition
E minorEm           Cmaj7Cmaj7
And the cycle of hungry children
B minorBm         E minorEm    Cmaj7Cmaj7 E MajorE
Will keep on going 'round
E MajorE  B minorBm   E minorEm
Will keep on going 'round
E MajorE  B minorBm   E minorEm
Will keep on going 'round
E minorEm  C majorC      B minorBm         E minorEm
'Till we burn the house of commons to the ground