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Song: Mountie Song
Band: Arrogant Worms
Tabbed by: paul siller <siller@calcna.ab.ca>



G       320003
Am7(G)  302013
Em      022000
D       000323
C       032010


G               Am7(G)          G
When I was a kid I wanted to grow up and
        Am7(G)                  G  Am7(G)  G
be a cop in a province, town or county
G               Am7(G)          G
I thought it would be great if someday
        Am7(G)            G  Am7(G)  G
I could only ever be a mountie
G                       Am7(G)          G
I wanted to beat up crooks and make arrests
        Am7(G)                  G  Am7(G) G
because that's part of the profession
G               Am7(G)          G
But now I sit on my horse and tell
        Am7(G)                          G  Am7(G)  G
american tourists the parliment's in session
D
I really don't look good in red
    C                                           G  Am7(G)  G
and my stupid hat flies off my head in every parade
D
I'm young and strong and have no fear
C                                       G  Am7(G)  G
but now I'm spending my career in motorcades

Em          C
I want to enforce the law,
G                       D
I want to wear normal clothes
Em          C
I don't want to have to smile
G                       D
for a diplomat's home videos
Em          C
I'm good working real hard,
G                       D
I should have joined the coast guard
Em        C  D              G
Oh no the RCMP is not the life for me


I used to think that a mountie had to be
honest, loyal, humble, strong and thrifty
But even though we don't break ranks,
we get no thanks, they took us off the fifty (-- dollar bill)
on Sussex Drive in hallowed halls
we act like guards in shopping malls
it's such a pain
like someone's plotting the assasination of the minister of sports and
recreation
oh that's insane
Sometimes I just want to puke on Sargent Preston of the Yukon,
Dudley Do Right is such a jerk
And though he tries with all his heart
my horse couldn't catch a golfing cart
Somedays I hate to go to work


I want to enforce the law
I want to wear normal clothes
I don't want to have to smile for a diplomats home videos
I'm good working real hard
I should have joined the coast guard
Oh no the RCMP is not the life for me


Verbal ad lib


I want to enforce the law
I want to wear normal clothes
I don't want to have to smile for a diplomats home videos
I'm good working real hard
I should have joined the coast guard
Oh no the RCMP is not the life for me