Industrial Disease Dire Straits
INDUSTRIAL DISEASE (Dire Straits)
(ex "Love over Gold" album - 1982)
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Now [A]warning lights are flashing down in quality control.
[(A)]Somebody threw a spanner (and) they threw it in the hole.
[(A)]There's rumours in the Loading Bay and anger in the town.
[(A)]Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down.
There's a [D]meeting in the boardroom,
C, Bm
they're trying to trace the smell.
There's a [A]leaking in the washroom,
there's a sneak in Perso[D]nnel.
[E]Somewhere in the corridor someone was heard to sneeze.
[A]Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?
The [A]caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post.
[(A)]For refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most.
[(A)](the) Watchdog's got rabies, the foreman's got the fleas,
[(A)]And everyone concerned about Industrial Disease.
There's [D]panic on the switchboard,
C, Bm
tongues in knots.
Some [A]come out in sympathy, some come out in spots.
[E]Some blame the management 'n some the employees.
[A]Everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease.
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Yeah, now the [A]workforce is disgusted, downs tools, walks.
[(A)]Innocence is injured; experience just talks.
[(A)]Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees
[(A)]That these are classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze.
On [D]ITV and BBC
C, Bm
they talk about the curse.
Phi[A]losophy is useless, theology is worse.
[E]History, boils over, there's an economics freeze;
[A]Sociologists invent words that mean "Ind-
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-ustrial Disease"
Doctor [A]Parkinson declared "I'm not surprised to see you here.
[(A)]You've got smoker's cough from smoking, brewer's droop from drinking beer.
[(A)]I dunno how you came to get the Bette Davis knees,
[(A)]but worst of all young man you've got Industrial Disease"
He [D]wrote me a prescription, he said
C, Bm
"You are depressed,
but [A]I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest.
[E]Come back and see me later: (DING!) next patient please!
[A]Send in another victim of Industrial Disease."
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I go [A]down to Speaker's Corner. I'm a-thunderstruck.
[(A)]They've got free speech tourists, police in trucks.
[(A)]Two men say they're Jesus - one of them must be wrong.
[(A)]There's a protest singer, he's singin' a protest song - he says
"They [D]wanna have a war
C, Bm
to keep their factories.
They [A]wanna have a war to keep us on our knees.
[E]They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese.
[A]They wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease!
[A]They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind.
[(A)]They wanna sap your energy, incarcerate your mind.
[(A)]They give you "Rule Britannia", gassy beer, Page Three,
[(A)]two weeks in Espana and a Sunday striptease.
Mean[D]while the first Jesus says
C, Bm
"I'll cure it soon,
a[A]bolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons."
[E]The other one's out on hunger strike he's dying by degrees.
[A]How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?
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More A chord to go out with effects...
:Charted by Bustopher the Busker - bustopher@bigpond.com
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