...THE WORLD ISN'T FAIR... by Randy Newman
--------------------------................

*from 'Bad Love' (1999)*


Verse 1:

     Dm   Am
When Karl Marx,
      Bb
Was a boy,
   F      C7
He took a hard,
       F
Look a-round.

       Am7b5
He saw people,
     D7
Were starving,
    Gm       Gm/D
All over the place,
      C7
While others were,
[accord]C7+[/accord]           F
 Painting the town.

Verse 2:

    F
The public,
Gm7       F
 Spirited boy,
         F/C
Became a public,
C7        F
 Spirited man.

      Dm
So he worked,
     Am
Very hard,
       Bb
And he read,
F/A
 Everything
   G7
Un-til he came,
          C
Up with a plan.

Bridge 1:

         F
There'll be,
   A7     Dm
No exploi-tation,
       Dm
Of the worker,
F7      Bdim7
 Or his kin.
Dm      A7    Dm
 No dis-crimi-nation,
         Bb
'Cos the colour,
E        A7
 Of your skin.

Dm
 No more,
Bbdim7   Bdim7  G#dim7
 Private proper-ty,
   Adim7
It would not,
F#dim7   C7
 Be allo-wed;

       C#
No one could,
Rise too high,
No one could,
F
 Sink too low,
      F
Or go under,
    Bb
Com-pletely like,
G7           C
 Some we all know.

Verse 3:

   F
If Marx were,
Gm7        F
 Living to-day,
        F
He'd be rolling,
  C7           F
A-round in his grave.

       Dm
And if I,
        Am
Had him here,
      Bb
In my mansion,
       F/A
On the hill,
    Dm
I'd tell him,
  Am
a story;
        Bb
T'would give his,
            F/A
Old heart a chill.
     G7
It's something,
                 C
That happened to me.

Break:

         Ab
I'd say, Karl
  B        F
I recently stumbled,
Ab      B        F
 Into a new fami-ly.

     C#
With two little,
E            Bb
 Children in school,
      C#
Where all little,
G7               C
 Children should be.

  Ab
I went to,
    B     F
The orien-tation,
Ab
 All the young,
B             F
 Mommies were there.

Verse 4:

          Dm
Karl, you never,
     Am
Have seen such,
  Bb       F/A
A glorious sight,
         Dm
As these beautiful,
Am/C      Bb
 Women ar-rayed,
        F
For the night.

          C#
Just like countesses,
Ab
 Empresses,
Bbm/F
 Movie stars,
    F/C
And queens,
And they'd,
G7
 Come there with,
              C
Men much like me;
F         C
 Froggish men,
   Bb          C
Un-pleasant to see.
Were you to,
C#
 Kiss one, Karl;
Bb       C7
 Merry a prince,
            F
Would there be.

Chorus 1:

    Dm
See Karl,
    Bb7         F
The world isn't fair,
   Bb
It isn't and,
E           F
 Never will be.

     Gm7
They tried,
         F
Out your plan;
It brought,
Bb         F
 Misery in-stead.
         Gm7
If you'd seen,
         F
How they worked it,
         Bb
You'd be glad,
         F
You were dead.
          Bb
Just like I'm glad,
    F
I'm living in,
    Bb          F
The land of the free,
          Bb
Where the rich,
         F/C
Just get richer,
        Bb
And the poor,
          A7
You don't ever,
        Dm
Have to see.
It would,
   Gdim
De-press us, Karl
           F/C
Because we care,
         Fdim
That the world,
      C7
Still isn't...
F
 Fair.

Outro:

F  Gm7  F,
F  C, F


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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)