The Right Permits chords by The Taxpayers

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

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

🎸 Verse 1:

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


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

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

🎸 Chorus:

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

 A augmentedA     E MajorE     D MajorD     A augmentedA
I pocket his money and then walk away