[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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  Read all about it tell me have you heard the news
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  Captain Bob, he don't pay no dues 
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You know he's looking in my window
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He's stepping on my toes
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   Don't want the truth and it goes to show
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[Chorus]
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  I got a joker up my sleeve,    I know what to believe
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  It isn't right just because it's in black and white
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[Verse 2]
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Find yourself a hero,  treat him like a friend
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   You build him up and tear him down again (Tear him down again)
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It don't hold a candle, hold it to the light
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    Check it out, is it wrong   or right -----|---- Well
 
 
[Chorus]
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  Is this the news of the world      It's just a pretty girl
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She's all the news that's fit to print  in black and white
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[Instrumental]
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N.C.

 
 
[Verse]
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Inside information, taken down note by note
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  A silent footstep, that's all she wrote
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  Shit, that's all she wrote
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You got  no need to worry the baby's gone to bed
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Dreaming dirty dreams in black and white and red   Aah aah
 
 
[Chorus]
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Well, now I got nothing to fear      is this the scoop of the year
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Headlines on my bathroom wall in black and white
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Dm          Bb           F  C  Dm          Bb       G
  I got a joker up my sleeve,     it's so hard to believe
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  It isn't right just because it's in black and white, black and white...
 
 
[Outro]
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