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Here's To The State of Mississippi, as performed by Pearl Jam
Covers: F - L


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Author/Artist: Eddie Vedder
Title: Here's To The State of Mississippi
Album: Live (10/24/04)
Transcribed by: Rick
Written For: http://www.giventowail.com


G: 320033
C: x32033
D: xx0232
Em: 022000

Note: ??? denotes missing lyrics.

G                       C               G
Here's to the judges of William Renhquist
G C D
Who ???
G                                   C          D
and Justice is a stranger when the partisans report
G                                     C               D 
When the court elects a president the trial is always short

G              Em      C            G
Here's to the land you tore out the heart of
G                      Em                   C      D
William Renhquist find yourself another country
G             C G
To be part of

G 			        C         G
And here's to the government of Dick Cheney
G                       C             D
With criminals ??? as advisors to the crown
G                                                  C               D
And they hope that no one sees the sites and that no one hears the sounds
G                                      C          D
'Cause the speeches of a president are remains of a clown

G             Em       C            G
Here's to the land you tore out the heart of
G                Em                  C     D
Dick Cheney find yourself another country
G               C G
to be part of..

G                         C        G
And here's to the laws of John Ashcroft
G                                C            D
Congress will pass an act in the panic of the day
G                                     C        D
and the Constitution's drowning in an ocean of decay
G                                       C              D	
And freedom of speech is dangerous I've even heard them say
G             Em        C            G
Here's to the land you tore out the heart of
G                  Em                   C    D
John Ashcroft find yourself another country
G             C G
to be part of. 

C G

G                                C        G
And here's to the businessman of George W.
G                                        C          D
who'll want to change the focus from our good and our wrong
G                                           C                  D
and their profits like blood money spilling on the White House lawn
G                                         C           D
to keep their hold on power they're using terror as a con
G                                                        C                 D
while the bombs they fall on children.. don't care which side that they're on

G             Em       C            G
Here's to the land you tore out the heart of
G             Em                   C    D
George W find yourself another country
G 
To be part of
G             Em       C            G
Here's to the land you tore out the heart of
G              Em               C        D
George W. find yourself another country

G
to be part of..
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