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I Don’t let this af fect (G)the i game.
ous state.
Ev ’ry five months we act (Dm)the same,
but I nev er get used to put ting you off.
And no one could have script (G)ed to this.
prove.
Why Who knows what ’ll come (Dm)of it.
mood?
I re fuse to be lieve it was all a waste.
’Cause look a round, ev ’ry bod y’s on the (G)food chain.
(Am)Fun ny, (G)but from day to day we get from (Am)bot tom to top.
And if (F)you get lost, you start (E7)o ver a gain.
But we don’t ev er get to, no, we don’t ev er get to stop.
I wake up in this ob (G)liv i game.
ous state.
Go to sleep try’n’ to save (Dm)some face.
’Cause I’ve nev er been one
for act ing na ive.
And so what?
We got noth (G)ing to this.
prove.
Why on earth would we soft (Dm)en the mood?
Do we think that this wire
is bet ter left live?
’Cause look a round, ev ’ry bod y’s on the (G)food chain.
(Am)Fun ny, (G)but from day to day we get from (Am)bot tom to top.
And if (F)you get lost, you start (E7)o ver a gain.
But we don’t ev er get to, no, we don’t ev er get to stop.
I would have known (Gm)bet ter if I was on the (Fmaj7)out side.
I would have known (Gm)bet ter if I was on the (Fmaj7)out side look ing in, look ing in.
But this (Fmaj7)chain just (Em7)eats a way at the peo ple who use it.
No one’s (Em7)gon na say that it’s eas i er los ing touch with (Em7)who we need when it’s (Am)lone li er (Gsus4)on the (F)out side.
don’t ev er get to, no we don’t ev er get to, we (Gm7)don’t ev er get to, we don’t ev er get to, we (Gm7)don’t ev er get to…
This page shows “Food Chain” by Eric Hutchinson in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of C at 100 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.