Dump The Bosses Off Your Back Chords

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Dump The Bosses Off Your Back by Misc Traditional is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D                         G 
Are you poor, forlorn and hungry? 
D                            A 
Are there lots of things you lack? 
D                       G 
Is your life made up of misery? 
A                             D 
Then dump the bosses off your back. 
A                                D 
Are your clothes all patched and tattered? 
G       D           A 
Are you living in a shack? 
D                            G 
Would you have your troubles scattered? 
A                             D 
Then dump the bosses off your back. 

Are you almost split asunder? 
Loaded like a long-eared jack? 
Boob - why don't you buck like thunder, 
And dump the bosses off your back? 
All the agonies you suffer 
You can end with one good whack; 
Stiffen up, you orn'ry duffer 
And dump the bosses off your back. 

Third verse by Anne Feeney (2006) 

If you find your factory is closed down 
Are your neighbours all on crack? 
Buck, let me give you the low down: 
Dump the bosses off your back. 
If you find your pension looted 
Are your buddies in Iraq? 
Would you see the rascals booted? 
Dump the bosses off your back. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante