[Verse 1]
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I've been selling my soul, working all day.
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Overtime hours, for bullshit pay.
         Em                      C
So I can sit out here, and waste my life away.
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Drag back home, and drown my troubles away.


[Pre-Chorus 1]
        Em                      C
It's a damn shame, what the world's gotten to.
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For people like me, and people like you.
             Em                    C
Wish I could just wake up, and it not be true.
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But it is, aw it is.


[Chorus 1]
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Livin' in the new world, with an old soul.
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These rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows they all
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just wanna have total control
                     Em                        C
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do.
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And they don't think you know, but I know that you do.
                         Em                         C
'Cause your dollar ain't shit, and it's taxed to no end
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'Cause of rich men, north of Richmond.


[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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I wish politicians would look out for miners.
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And not just minors on an island somewhere.
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Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat.
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And the obese, milkin' welfare.
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But God, if you're five foot three and you're three hundred pounds.
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Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds.
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Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground.
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'Cause all this damn country does, is keep on kickin' them down.


[Pre-Chorus 2]
                  Em                 C
Lord, it's a damn shame, what the world's gotten to.
     G                   D          D6  D
For people like me, and people like you.
             Em                    C
Wish I could just wake up, and it not be true.
       G         D D6 D
But it is, aw it is.


[Chorus 2]
              Em        C        G         D D6 D
Livin' in the new world, with an old soul.
           Em                         C
These rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows they all
         G                  D D6 D
just wanna have total control
                     Em                        C
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do.
                         G                         D
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do.
                         Em                         C
'Cause your dollar ain't shit, and it's taxed to no end
                G                 D  D6 D
'Cause of rich men, north of Richmond.


[Outro]
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          Em               C
I've been selling my soul, working all day.
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Overtime hours, for bullshit pay.