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You will find “i told you” on the “12 infinities” album

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.