Biography:
Bruce Cockburn (pronounced "CO-burn") (born May 27, 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) has had a long and distinguished career, with much success in his native Canada. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll. Cockburn was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2012 he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (in Canada the award was to honour "significant contributions and achievements by Canadians").
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Other songs:
- Tokyo
- Wondering Where The Lion Are
- All The Diamonds
- All The Ways I Want You
- Birmingham Shadows
- Burn
- Call Me Rose
- Child Of The Wind
- Dialogue With The Devil
- Different When It Comes To You
- Feast Of Fools
- Happy Good Morning Blues
- He Came From The Mountain
- If I Had A Rocket Launcher
- Indian Wars
- Last Night Of The World
- Loner
- Lord Of The Starfields
- Lovers In A Dangerous Time
- Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse
- Mighty Trucks Of Midnight
- One Day I Walk
- Pacing The Cage
- Peggys Kitchen Wall
- Put It In Your Heart
- Someone I Used To Love
- The Coming Rains
- The Whole Night Sky
- They Call It Democracy
- Tie Me At The Crossroads
- Wondering Where The Lions Are
- You Get Bigger As You Go
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From: [email protected] (Jeffrey Goffin)
Subject: CRD: They Call It Democracy by Bruce Cockburn
THEY CALL IT DEMOCRACY by Bruce Cockburn (1985)
D
Padded with power here they come
Em G
International loan sharks backed by the guns
D
Of market hungry military profiteers
Em G
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
D Em G
With the blood of the poor
Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity
By turning countries into labour camps
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom
Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament
The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
Idolatry of ideology
North south east west
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying fuck
About the people in misery
A
IMF dirty MF
A
Takes away everything it can get
A
Always making certain that there's one thing left
A D Em G D Em G
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
I see the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
And it's open for business like a cheap bordello
And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy
And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy
You see the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
They call the revolution
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
And they call it democracy
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#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
From: [email protected] (Jeffrey Goffin)
Subject: CRD: They Call It Democracy by Bruce Cockburn
THEY CALL IT DEMOCRACY by Bruce Cockburn (1985)
D
Padded with power here they come
Em G
International loan sharks backed by the guns
D
Of market hungry military profiteers
Em G
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
D Em G
With the blood of the poor
Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity
By turning countries into labour camps
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom
Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament
The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
Idolatry of ideology
North south east west
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying fuck
About the people in misery
A
IMF dirty MF
A
Takes away everything it can get
A
Always making certain that there's one thing left
A D Em G D Em G
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
I see the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
And it's open for business like a cheap bordello
And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy
And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy
You see the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
They call the revolution
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
And they call it democracy
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* "Here's a song that I like to play. *
* Print it out, play it and pass it around. *
* If you like it, send me one of your favourites." *
* *
* Jeffrey Goffin Internet: [email protected] *
* Calgary, Alberta, Canada FidoNet: 1:134/160 *
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