Racist Society
from "Major Label Debut"
by Screeching Weasel
Tabbed by: Darby Edelen
edelen@ucsc.edu

Another great Screeching Weasel song.  People don't seem to appreciate the chord chart format
I've been using (I consider it more useful than straight forward tablature, but c'est la vie)
so I've included the tablature for the Verse, Chorus and Bridge below.  With that and the chord
chart after it there should be no complaints.

Chords Used:
	A	B	E	C#
e|---------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------|
G|----------------------9----------------|
D|------7-------9-------9-------11-------|
A|------7-------9-------7-------11-------|
E|------5-------7---------------9--------|


Verse:
	A	B	      E
e|--------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|
G|---------------------9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--|
D|---7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--|
A|---7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--|
E|---5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7-------------------|

	A	B	  C#	      B		A
e|-----------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------|
D|---7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9--11-11-11-11--9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7---|
A|---7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9--11-11-11-11--9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7---|
E|---5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7--9--9--9--9---7-7-7-7--5-5-5-5---|

Chorus:

	E	A
e|----------------------|
B|----------------------|
G|---9-9-9-9------------|
D|---9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7---| (x3)
A|---7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7---|
E|------------5-5-5-5---|

Bridge:

"Did you know that the older you get..."
	C#	    B	     A		B
e|---------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------|
D|---11-11-11-11--9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7---9-9-9-9---| (x4)
A|---11-11-11-11--9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7---9-9-9-9---|
E|---9--9--9--9---7-7-7-7--5-5-5-5---7-7-7-7---|


"Big Business..."
	E	B	  C#	      A		E	 B   	     A
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---9-9-9-9---------------------------------9-9-9-9-----------------------------|
D|---9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9--11-11-11-11--7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---| (2x)
A|---7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9--11-11-11-11--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---|
E|------------7-7-7-7--9--9--9--9---5-5-5-5-----------7-7-7-7--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5---|

"And if that's not enough to keep your mind off of..."
	   C#		    A		  E	       B
e|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------9-9-9-9-9-9----------------|
D|---11-11-11-11-11-11--7-7-7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9-9-9---| (2x)
A|---11-11-11-11-11-11--7-7-7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9-9-9---|
E|---9--9--9--9--9--9---5-5-5-5-5-5---------------7-7-7-7-7-7---|


Verse:
        A	      		B      E	
Did you know that you live in a racist society

	A			   B         C#		       B		     A
Did you know you're the privileged class and everybody else is essentially taking it up the ass


Chorus:

	E		       A		
Did you know that you could be free

	E			A
Did you know that's not the way it has to be

	E			  A
Did you know you can still change everything


Verse:
	C#			  	   B			    A	     B		  E
Did you know that there's no such thing as equality and there might never be if you don't change

	A			B	 E
Did you know that you live in a warzone, culturally

	A			    B		     C#		     	       B	       A
Did you know that your parents were ***ed when they taught you how to fear anybody who wasn't white enough


(Chorus)

Bridge:
C#		         B		       A			B			C#
   Did you know that the older you get it gets easier to blame somebody else for your own mess

		      B			 A		     B			 C#
Did you know that the jews don't run the world and all black men aren't criminals

		       B	    A
Did you know there's a lot of money to be made

     B               C#		       B
From keeping you paranoid, suspicious, worried, frightened

A		 B
All wound up and tense inside 'cause

E	     B		    C#		  A
Big business runs the government and it's not good business

E          B             A
If we burn down the government so they keep us occupied

E	   B		C#		 A
With moron tv shows and ***ty beer that wipes out brain cells

    E		  B	       A
And whining about congress and stupid ***ing income taxes

C#			 A			      E			 B
And if that's not enough to keep your mind off of the way you're getting dicked around

C#				 A			       E
They fill you with fear and hate give you someone to blame for all your problems

	  B			 A
Why's the country going down the ***ing toilet?



Modified Chorus:
E		      A
Do you know what they think of you

E				  A
Do you know how contemptuous they are of you

E			 A
Do you know how easy you are to fool


Outro:
C#					      B					  A            B
You're like a dog going after a ball that was never thrown well guess what you're on your own

     E
Good luck!