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Propaganda Blues by
Dave Williams (116bpm)
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How about the phony products advertising sells?
with a copper fitted tee shirt I'll be feelin' swell
ain't no law to prevent these lies
we got the goods to sell if you're dumb enough to buy
'and you got a case, a case of propaganda blues
Time marching onward and
In the middle 1800s big changes came
the telegraph and railroads made a brand new game
information moving fast there's a public thirst
politicians in cahoots with William Randolph Hearst
that was the start, the start of propaganda blues
Here we need to mention a
dude from academe
In the 20's Edward Bernays laid out the scheme
manipulate the public with psychology
it was the advertising game in its infancy
here comes, here comes the propaganda
blues.
And in the 1930's, the German people fell
Nazi propaganda cast its spell
turned good people bad made bad people worse
tens of millions died because of this curse
the whole world, got the propaganda blues
CHORUS
A couple decades passed, and just like that TV was every where
the talking heads... sometimes lied, but no one seemed to care
folks see it on TV and they think its true
they see it on TV and they swear its true
the ad men jumped aboard, the politicians too, you bought the Brooklyn
bridge hey we'll ship it out to you
It got worse, got worse, the propaganda blues.
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A certain cable news network soon came to be
you could push any message if you paid their fee
in back rooms the fat cats run the game
the crooks they elect well they got no shame
oh we got, we got the propaganda blues
It took some smart people to invent the Internet
at first it seemed a god send for man's needs unmet
but there was way more to it than the eye could see
now changing people's thoughts is an industry
oh we got, we got the the propaganda blues
that
old first amendment written long ago was a blessing now it's a
curse
the lies it protects and adverse effects have gone from bad to worse
Lots of folks are wondering just what comes next
if you have a
revelation, send me a text
but now its come time to put this song to
bed
so here's a little riff that's been bangin' round my head
shake it up baby...propaganda blues
c'mon baby ...propaganda blues
Ah, Ah, Ah AH!
OLD BEGINNING
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I'll tell you 'bout something - drives me up the
wall
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Lying politicians, how it affects us all
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they tell a handy lie the public is coerced
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I think we need to blame the amendment that comes first
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C
D G
'Cause you know, we got, we got the propaganda blues
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When they wrote down the rules for this land of ours
things were much
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different then
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if a man told a lie on the court house steps, that's where that lie would
end
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D
and the town newspaper mostly told the truth
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said the town newspaper mostly told the truth
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C
A7
the town newspaper mostly told the truth
things worked out at the
voting booth
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D G
No such thing as propaganda blues.OLD ENDING
if laws don't work out just like they should
said if laws don't work out just like they should
if a law don't work out just like it should, need to change that law
cuz the law's no good.
beware, beware of propaganda.
take care, don't believe the propaganda.
say good bye, good bye to propaganda blues |