The Right Permits chords by The Taxpayers

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Verse 1:

   A       E    F#     D
Every house on the block got sold to the city
   A       E     F#     D
It’s sad, but some offers you just can’t refuse
   A       E     F#     D
Mortar and brick once towering tall
    A    E       D       A
When a city is changing, you can’t have it all


🎸 Chorus:
    A      E        F#     D
Now the building’s a bike shop where we went to high school
   A      E    F#      D
The house where my mother lived is a restaurant
  A      E       F#     D
The old public housing holds gallery art walks
  A      E       D      A
The tourists all ask where the wine tasting is

🎸 Bridge:
      F#    A       E       Dm Dm
And all the pneumatic drills and old bribes in the paper
      F#    A  E     Dm Dm
Machinery thrashing and blowing off steam
   F#     A      E       Dm Dm
Big business and councilmen laughing about it
     F#    A       E        Dm
If you’ve got the permits, you can do what you please

🎸 Chorus:

    A     E      F#     D
Now the bulldozers tumble out over the rocks
    A     E       F#     D
And the mold in the clapboard is making me sick
   A     E     F#     D
Some worker in denim keeps calling me Linda
    A     E      D     A
I sign all his papers, but that’s not my name

 A     E     D     A
I pocket his money and then walk away