The Media chords by Ewan Maccoll

Chords with lyrics

Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger - The Media

A* = A/EA/E = 2400
D* = A/D = 2250
DmDm = A/D/F = 2210
G+G = B/D/G = 0232
[numbers indicate fingerings on a standard GCEA-tuned ukulele]

A*                        D*
Every second of every minute, every hour of every day
                             A*
The babblers work at building Babel; listen to what they say
                                  DmDm
Reading the news and feeding their views to the minds of a captive nation
                     G+G   A*
Blending fact and fantasy: the official interpretation

A*                         D*
Every night in a billion rooms a billion minds are fed
                         A*
On a diet of pre-digested pap prepared by talking heads
                             DmDm
Opinion-makers, phonies and fakers, talking to earn their pay
                         G+G   A*
Gazing out of their plastic world and talking our lives away

A*                         D*
Every time that a working man or woman demand their rights
                             A*
The talking machine works overtime to prove that black is white
                            DmDm
Strikers are traitors, paid agitators; miners are surly brutes
                            G+G     A*
But don't let the viewers see the coppers teaching 'em with their boots

A*                         D*
Every day the smooth-faced pundits forecast on the box
                             A*
The miners' strike was lost they said and Scargill on the rocks
                            DmDm
Lies, defamation, misinformation, that was the testing time
                              G+G   A*
He kept faith with the men who elected him - and that is a major crime

A*                          D*
Every time there's a striking Pole, the lads at the BBC
                               A*
And the Thatcher mob weep crocodile tears: "Hurrah for Democracy"
                              DmDm
The Sun and the Mail both joyfully hail the Poles' solidarity
                         G+G     A*
Let British workers go on strike, they sing in a different key

DmDm                      G+G    A*
For solidarity's good for Poles - but not for you and me