Newspapermen chords by Pete Seeger

• Difficulty: Intermediate

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Oh, newspapermen meet such interesting people!
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He knows the low-down (now it can be told)
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I'll tell you quite reliably off the record
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About some charming people I have known




For I meet politicians, and grafters by the score
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Killers plain and fancy, it's really quite a bore
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Oh, newspapermen meet such interesting people!

He wallows in corruption, crime, and gore


Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city desk;

Hold the press
Hold the press;

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
                       B
It's a mess, meets the test
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Oh, newspapermen meet such interesting people!
                                B
It's wonderful to represent the press

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Now, you remember Mrs. Sadie Smuggery

She needed money for a new fur coat
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To get insurance, she employed skullduggery
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She up and cut her husband's only throat

She chopped him into fragments, she stuffed him in a trunk
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She shipped it all back yonder to her uncle in Podunk
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Now, newspapermen meet such interesting people!
                                       B
It must have startled poor old Sadie's unc

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Ting-a-ling-a-ling, city desk;
                         B
Hold the press
Hold the press;
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
                       B
It's a mess, meets the test
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Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people!
                                B
It's wonderful to represent the press

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Now, newspapermen meet such interesting people!

I've met the gal with million-dollar knees

Oh, so the guy who sat five years upon a steeple;
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Just where the point was I could never see
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Yes
I've met Capone and Hoover, and lots of other fakes
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I've even met a genius who swallows rattlesnakes
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Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people!

The richest girl who could not bake a cake


Ting-a-ling

Ting-a-ling

Ting-a-ling
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Now, newspapermen are such interesting people!

They used to work like hell just for romance
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But finally, the movies notwithstanding
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They all got tired of patches on their pants

They organized a union to get a living wage
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They joined with other actors upon a living stage
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Now newspapermen are such interesting people
                                               B
When they know they've got a people's fight to wage


Ting-a-ling-a-ling
Newspaper Guild
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Got a free new world to build;

Meet the people, that's a thrill
                      B
All together fits the bill
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Now, newspapermen are such interesting people!
                                B
It's wonderful to represent the Guild

B F#7

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Oh, publishers are such interesting people!
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Their policy's an acrobatic thing
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They claim they represent the common people
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It's funny Wall Street never has complained

But the publishers have worries, for publishers must go
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To working folks for readers, and big shots for their dough
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Now, are publishers are such interesting people!

It could be press-titution
I don't know

                         B
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, circulation
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Ting-a-ling-a-ling, advertising
                            B
Get those readers, get that payoff

What a headache, what a mess
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Oh, publishers are such interesting people!
                                           B
Let's give three cheers for freedom of the press