Big A Little A

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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:27:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Samuel Fletcher IV Barker 

 

Song:Big A Little A
artists: Crass
Album:Best Before
Transcribed by: Samuel Barker 
 
  
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intro:

  Eb    
  Bb       
  Ab       
  Bb
big 
  A little 
  A bouncing 
  B

  Eb             
  Bb       
  Ab                   
  Bb
the system may have got you but it won't get me
no chord
1  2  3  4
Chorus:

  Eb            
  Bb     
  Ab                     
  Bb
external control are you gonna let them get you?

  Eb                  
  Bb              
  Ab                       
  Bb
do you want to be a prisoner in the boundaries that they set you?

  Eb                     
  Bb
you say you want to be yourself
                 
  Ab                
  Bb
by christ do you think they'll let you?

  Eb                     
  Bb              
  Ab              
  Bb
they're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you

verse !:

  Eb                            
  Bb
hello hello hello this is the lord god can you hear?

  Ab                                 
  Bb
hellfire and damnation's what i've got for you down hthere

  Eb                                
  Bb
on earth i have ambasssadors, archbishop, vicar, pope
      
  Ab                       
  Bb
we'll blind you with morality, you'd best abandon any hope,

  Eb                                  
  Bb
we're telling you you'd better pray cos you were born in sin
      
  Ab                                
  Bb
right from the start we'll build a cell and then we'll lock you in

  Eb                       
  Bb
we sit in holy judgement condemning those who stray

  Ab                           
  Bb
we offer our forgiveness but first we'll make you pay

repeat chorus

verse 2:

  Eb                             
  Bb
hello hello hello now here's a message from your queen
   
  Ab                             
  Bb
as figurehead of the status quo i set the social scene

  Eb                                   
  Bb
i'm most concerned with my people, i want to give them peace
       
  Ab                                    
  Bb
so i'm making sure they stay in line with my army and police

  Eb                             
  Bb
my prisons and my mental homes have ever open doors
    
  Ab                            
  Bb
for those amongst my subjects who dare to ask for more

  Eb                            
  Bb
unruliness and disrespect are things i can't allow
   
  Ab                           
  Bb
so i'll see the peasants grovel if they refuse to bow

repeat chorus

verse 3:

  Eb                              
  Bb
Introducing the prime minister, she's the mother to us all
     
  Ab                        
  Bb
like the dutch boy's thumb her arse is in the wall

  Eb                              
  Bb
holding back the future waiting for the seas to part

  Ab                             
  Bb
if moses did it with his faith then she'll do it with an army
no chords(bass and drum only)
who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there
guarding national heritage no matter what or where
palaces for kings and queens mansions for the rich
protection for the wealthy defense of privilage
they've learnt the ropes in ireland, engaged in civil war
fighting the ruling classes in there battle against the poor
so irelands just an island? it's an island of the mind
great britain?future? bollocks, you'd better look behind

  Eb
round every other corner stands p.c. 1984

  Eb
guardian of the future, he'll emplement the law

  F2
he's there as a grim reminder that no matter what you do

  F2
big brother's system is always there with his beady eyes on you

  G2
from god to local bobby, in home and street and school

  G2
they've got your name and number while you've got their rule

  A2
we've got to look for methods to undermine those powers

  A2
it's time to change the tables the future must be ours

bass solo under lyrics(various pickings by guitar)
BE exactly what you want to be, do what you want to do....
....buy the album for the rest of the lyrics....
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chords:
    
  Eb 
  Bb 
  Ab 
  F2 
  G2 
  A2
G-/-8---------9--11--13-|
D-/-8--8--6---9--11--13-|
A-/-6--8--6---7---9--11-|
E-/----6--4-------------|