The Schemers The Scroungers And The Rats

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[Chorus]

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[Verse]

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   Will you still love me,    will you still hug me,
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   When I’m eighty four,
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   When I’ve been working    all my life,
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   And I’m still bloody poor?
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   Dust in my lungs,  a broken back,
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   Still can’t retire it hurts,
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   Well I’m   all for workers’ rights and that,
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   As long as   I don’t have to work,

[Chorus]

D                     Cadd9                                G
   So hats off to the schemers, to the scroungers, to the rats,
           D                Cadd9                                        G
   To the ones who sleep on mattresses on the floor, clutching baseball bats,
           D               Cadd9                              G
   To the beggars and the cheaters and the kings who rise at noon,
          Am                            C                        D
   To the scoundrels, the misfits, the parasites, this one’s for    you.


N.C.
“Don’t send me on another New Deal course, I can already spell my name, you lot take the piss”


[Verse]

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  Maybe I’ll never shoot a rabbit,
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  Perhaps I’ll never drink champagne,
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  But that’s alright with me, man,
A7                   D   D7
  I prefer cider anyway,
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  And I’m happy     doing nothing,
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  They tell me it’s all a waste,
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But I ain’t   never seen no 3  piece suit,
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With a   smile on his face,


[Chorus]

D                     Cadd9                                G
   So hats off to the schemers, to the scroungers, to the rats,
           D                Cadd9                                        G
   To the ones who sleep on mattresses on the floor, clutching baseball bats,
           D               Cadd9                              G
   To the beggars and the cheaters and the kings who rise at noon,
          Am                            C                        D
   To the scoundrels, the misfits, the parasites, this one’s for    you.


N.C.
“I searched all the newspapers and made my CV, I swear there just ain’t nothing out there”


[Verse]

G        G/F#          Em7
  A 9 to 5,   5 days a week, mate,
Cadd9       G          D
  Is bottom of my list,
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I just couldn’t live with myself,
A7                                  D     D7
Knowing there was something that I missed,
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  So don’t go telling me    “Take it seriously”,
C              A7
  Believe me I do,
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  But life’s for living,     not for working,
G           D                G
  And I got better things to do,


[Chorus]

D                     Cadd9                                G
   So hats off to the schemers, to the scroungers, to the rats,
           D                Cadd9                                        G
   To the ones who sleep on mattresses on the floor, clutching baseball bats,
           D               Cadd9                              G
   To the beggars and the cheaters and the kings who rise at noon,
          Am                            C                        D
   To the scoundrels, the misfits, the parasites, this one’s for    you.