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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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As soon as you're born, they make you feel small
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By giving you no time, instead of it all
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'Til the pain is so big, you feel nothing at all

[Chorus]
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A Working Class Hero is somethin' to be
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A Working Class Hero is somethin' to be

[Verse 2]
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They hurt you at home and they hit you at school, 
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They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool, 
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Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules, 

[Chorus]
  Am            Am      G             Am   Am  Am  Am
A Working Class Hero is somethin' to be
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A Working Class Hero is somethin' to be

[Verse 3]
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When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years, 
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Then they expect you to pick a career, 
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When you can't really function you're so full of fear,

[Chorus]
  Am            Am      G             Am   Am  Am  Am
A Working Class Hero is somethin' to be
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A Working Class Hero is somethin' to be

[Verse 4]
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Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV, 
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And you think you're so clever and classless and free, 
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But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see,

[Chorus]
  Am            Am      G             Am   Am  Am  Am
A Working Class Hero is somethin' to be
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A Working Class Hero is somethin' to be

[Verse 5]
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There's room at the top they are telling you still, 
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But first you must learn how to smile as you kill, 
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If you want to be like the folks on the hill,

[Chorus]
  Am            Am      G             Am   Am  Am  Am
A Working Class Hero is somethin' to be
  Am            G       D             Am  Am   Am  Am
A Working Class Hero is somethin' to be
 
[Outro] 
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If you want to be a hero, well just follow me
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If you want to be a hero, well just follow me