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Authority Song:John Mellancamp.
#15 in USA, #20 in Canada and #93 in Australia in 1984.
INTRO: D
#1.
Oh, they like to get you in a compromising position.
They like to get you there and smile in your face.
Well, they think they're so cute when they got you in
that condition.
Well, I think it's a to..tal disgrace..and I said..
CHORUS:
I fight authority, authority always wins.
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins.
Well, I've been doing it since I was a young kid..
I come out grinnin'.
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins.
(INTERLUDE:) D
#2.
So, I call up my preacher,I say, 'Give me strength
for Round Five.'
He said , 'You don't need no strength, you need to
grow up, son.'
I said, 'Growing up leads to growing old and then
to dying.
Ohhh, and dying to me don't sound like all that much fun.'
So, I said..
CHORUS:
I fight authority, authority always wins.
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins.
Well, I've been doing it since I was a young kid..
I come out grinnin'.
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins.
(INTERLUDE:) D G D G..D G D
#3.
I said, oh, no..no, no.....I said, oh, no..no, no.....
I said, oh, no..no, no.....
I fight authority, authority always wins.
I fight authority, authority always wins.
Well, I've been doing it since I was a young kid..
I come out grinnin'.
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins.
CHORUS:
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins.
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins.
Well, I've been doing it since I was a young kid..
I come out grinnin'.
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins.
OUTRO:
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins.
Well, I fight authority, authority always wins. (Fade.)
An eighties smash from Kraziekhat.
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