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Cm                                   Eb                       Bb
Back in '83 a man came to men and he told me "Son, our way of life is done"
          G
But I was only young
         Cm                                             Eb
With an eye to the fields speculators and yields rotten to the core,
     Bb                        F                 G
Monoculture whores entered the bidding wars from distant shores,

Cm         Eb      Bb    Ab        Cm            Eb    Bb      Ab
Iiiiiiiiii I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute and free,
         Ab              Bb                  Ab      Bb
With the grains of wrath blazing a path from sea to shining sea!

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       Cm                                          Eb
Oh the sinuous trails of concrete and rails and exhausted roars,
     Bb                      G
Population wars setting our future course,
         Cm                                     Eb
Yeah is profit and greed the only conceit on a scale between
          Bb             F             G
Mere prosperity and inhumanity? It may well be but,

Cm         Eb      Bb    Ab        Cm            Eb    Bb      Ab
Iiiiiiiiii I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute and free,
         Ab              Bb                  Ab      Bb
With the grains of wrath blazing a path from sea to shining sea!

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Cm         Eb      Bb    Ab        Cm            Eb    Bb      Ab
Iiiiiiiiii I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute and free,
         Ab              Bb                  Ab      Bb
With the grains of wrath blazing a path from sea to shining sea!

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