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- Subject: CRD: Industrial Disease
- Reply-to: kerch@parc.xerox.com
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 13:53:44 PST
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- Here is a CHordPro version of Dire Straits' "Industrial Disease",
- based on the basic chords that Vincent Tzitron (tzitron@loria.fr)
- worked out. (I got that version from OLGA in the first place).
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- {title:Industrial Disease}
- {subtitle:Mark Knopfler}
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- [A]Intro [D] [E] [G] [D] [C] [Bm] [A]
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- [A]Now warning lights are flashing down in quality control.
- Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole.
- there's rumours in the loading bay and anger in the town.
- somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down.
- There's a [D]meeting in the boardroom, they're trying to trace the smell,[C][Bm]
- there's a [A]leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in [D]Personnel.
- [E]Somewhere in a corridor someone was heard to sneeze.
- [A]Goodness me, goodness me, Industrial Disease!
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- [A]The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post,
- They're refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most.
- The watchdog's got rabies, the foreman's got the fleas,
- And everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease.
- There's [D]panic on the switchboard, tongues are tied in knots.[C][Bm]
- Some [A]come out in sympathy some come out in spots,
- [E]Some blame the management some the employees.
- [A]And everypone knows it's the industrial disease
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- [A]Break [D] [E] [G] [D] [C] [Bm] [A]
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- [A]The workforce is disgusted, downs tools and walks.
- Innoncence is injured; experience just talks.
- Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees
- That these are "classic symptoms of a monetary squeeeze".
- On [D]ITV and BBC they talk about the curse.[C][Bm]
- Phil[A]osphy is useless, theology is worse,
- [E]History boils over, there's an economics freeze;
- [A]Sociologists invent words that mean "Industrial Disease"
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- [A]Doctor Parkinson declared "I'm not surprised to see you here.
- You've got smoker's cough from smoking, brewer's droop from drinking beer.
- I don't know how you came to get the Bette Davis knees,
- but worst of all young man you've got Industrial Disease"
- He [D]wrote me a prescription, he said "You are depressed,[C][Bm]
- but [A]I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest.
- [E]Come back and see me later -- next patient please!
- [A]Send in another victim of Industrial Disease."
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- [A]Break [D] [E] [G] [D] [C] [Bm] [A]
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- [A]I go down to Speaker's Corner. I'm thunderstruck!
- They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks.
- Two men say they're Jesus -- one of them must be wrong.
- There's a protest singer singing a protest song -- he says
- "They [D]wanna have a war so they can keep us on our knees.[C][Bm]
- They [A]wanna have a war so they can keep their factories.
- [E]They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese.
- [A]They wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease!
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- [A]They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind.
- They wanna sap your energy, incarcerate your mind.
- They give you Rule Britannia, gassy beer, page three,
- two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease."
- Mean[D]while the first Jesus says "I'd cure it soon,[C][Bm]
- a[A]bolish monday mornings and friday afternoons."
- [E]The other one's out on hunger strike he's dying by degrees.
- [A]How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?
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- [E]Outro [G] [D] [C] [Bm] [A]
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