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Political Science

Biography:

Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is a singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores.

Newman is noted for his practice of writing lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from Newman's own biography. For example, the 1972 song "Sail Away" is written as a slave trader's sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of "Political Science" is a U.

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...POLITICAL SCIENCE... by Randy Newman
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*from 'Sail Away' (1972)*

*CAPO 3rd FRET*

(Original Key: Eb)

Verse 1:

C Caug
No one likes us, I don't know why.
E7 A7
We may not be perfect, but Heaven knows we try.
Fmaj7 Fm
And all around us, even our old friends put us down,
C G7#5 G13
Let's drop the big one; see what happens.

Verse 2:

C Caug
We give them money, but are they grateful?
E7 A7
No, their spiteful, and their hateful.
Fmaj7 Fm
They don't respect us, so let's surprise them;
C G7#5 G13
We'll drop the big one; pulve-rize them.

Verse 3:

C Caug
Asia's crowded, Europe's too old,
E7 A7
Africa is far to hot and Canada's too cold.
Fmaj7 Fm
And South America stole our name,
C G7#5 G13
Let's drop the big one; there'll be no one left to blame us.

Bridge 1:

F C
We'll save Aus-tralia;
F C
Don't want to hurt no kanga-roo.
F C
We'll build an all American a-musement park there;
G7
They got surfing too.

Verse 3:

C Caug
Boom! goes London, boom! Pa-reee,
E7 A7
More room for you, and more room for me.
Fmaj7 Fm
And every city, the whole world 'round;
C A7
Will just be another A-merican town.

D7 G7
Oh, how peaceful it will be; we'll set everybody free,
E7 A7
You'll wear a Japanese Kimono babe, it'll be I-talian shoes for me.

Coda:

F C
They all hate us any-how,
D F C
So let's drop the big one now.
D F C
Let's drop the big one now.

CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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C Caug E7 A7 Fmaj7 Fm

EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
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G7#5 G13 F G7 D7 D

EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 ([email protected])