*WOMAN GET ME A BEER, BEER GET ME A WOMAN* (Lord/Wilde)
Em Em/D# Em/D Em/C#
C D Em
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he's voted almost every day now and The Smiths win every time
he reads The Nation page to page now even that can be a climb
he knows what's right - it doesn't take a modem he's the Village Voice detective
he knows what consequences actions always bring in his college introspective.
C D
but ALL he wants is a t-shirt to say:
Em B G A
woman get me a beer, beer get me a woman
C D Em
Em B G A
she spent a week in kosovo once after Jennings, Tom, and Rather
taking time inside the warfronts for the fruit that she could gather
perhaps a poet, perhaps a correspondent she knows the myths in what she's seeing
she hears the music like an asian mob with lyrics of a european
C D
but ALL he wants is a t-shirt to say:
Em B G A
woman get me a beer, beer get me a woman
C D Em
C C DD
keep your populism off my pop music
keep your Karl Marx off my Richard Marx
this is my guilty pleasure this is my guilty pleasure
Em B G A
woman get me a beer, beer get me a woman
C D Em Em/D# Em/D Em/C# C D Em
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