Accountant Song
Phil Mills, November 2011
TTTO: Redemption Song by Bob Marley

Capo 3

(Notes: G A B G C E D B G A B D C B A G)

    G                  Em7
Old ledgers, keys, and purses
        C       C/B      Am
Chained I to my merchant ways
G                  Em
  Even after Death took I
C       C/B      Am
  To my pitiless grave.
        G          Em7
But the bonds were made strong
        C       C/B    Am
By mean acts of my own doing.
   G                    Em
We backward in our calculations,
C           D
  Embracing ruin.

Refrain:
	                        G
	When you're dead you'll sing
	C       D        G
	  These songs of business
	       C         D    Em
	'Cause all we'll ever have,
	C   D        G    C   D        G
	  Accountant songs, accountant songs.

      G                         Em7
Emancipate yourself from fiscal slavery;
           C             C/B      Am
You've one chance if you heed the signs.
        G               Em
Have no fear of ghostly visitors
           C          C/B         D
As each of them moves you through time.

    G                   Em7
How long did we tend to profits,
  C          C/B       Am
Parading our greed and hate?
   G                  Em
Condemned to haunt is part of it,
     C         C/B     D
I've got to fulfill my fate.

	{Refrain}
	C   D        G
	  Accountant songs

Emancipate yourself from fiscal slavery...

How long did we tend to profits...

	                        G
	When you're dead you'll sing
	C       D        G
	  These songs of business
	       C         D    Em  C   D        G
	'Cause all we'll ever have, accountant songs.
	C         D    Em  C   D        G
	All we'll ever have, accountant songs.
	C       D        G
	  These songs of business,
	C       D        G
	        Songs of business.