I Told You
This is a serious rant against the fucking greed of many rich people in this dumb-ass country that thinks it is actually a democracy but due to their greed, isn’t. It would make a good theme song for a Bernie Sanders’ style campaign. I wrote it in April 2015 before he entered the fray that gave us Trump.
It has a stream of four “Lennon-style” chords for beginning, verses and the close: C, F#dim7, B7, Em with less oddity to the chorus part.
That second chord (F#dim7) has 4 names if you look it up on-line. It is in the chorus of the Beatles’ song, Free as a Bird and I wanted to use it somewhere so I parked it here. It contains a double discord – notes C with F# and Eb with A. It is followed by the B7 chord with the same Eb with A notes discord plus the A and B notes discord. So, if the harmony sounds fucked up – it is intentional.
The photo is of a failed glass panel at an outdoor cafe in Athens, Greece
I Told You
Long verse + Chorus Intro
C F#dim7 B7 Em
Billionaires are taking your Democracy
C F#dim7 B7 Em
Millionaires – well, they don’t mind
C F#dim7 B7 Em
They don’t care for the likes of you or me
C F#dim7 B7 Em
For, we are not their kind
They say…
G Am
“Dear Children, go and play
F9 G
Watch sports heroes all day
Am C
Pop our guns at birds and deer
Dm Dm7 G
Enjoy our chips. Enjoy our beer”
Your World’ s going away
Being stolen in the night
Remember I told you
It’s well past time to fight.