F#5
   Pay your rates
         F#5
Pay your water rates
         F#5
Pay your rates
         F#5
Pay your water rates


[Verse 1]
        F#5
If your rate's too high
        F#5
Write a snotty letter
        F#5
If your rate's too high
         F#5
Put your life on this bit of paper


[Interlude]
| E5   D#5   | F#5     | F#5     |


[Tag]
G#5                 E5 F#5
   Advice on rates
G#5
   Advice on rates


[Chorus]
F#5
   Pay your rates
         F#5
Pay your water rates
         F#5
Pay your rates
         F#5
Pay your water rates


[Verse 2]
        F#5
If your rate's too high
        F#5
Write a snotty letter
             F#5
If you don't pay your rates
             F#5
You're gonna end up here


[Interlude]
| E5   F#5   |


[Bridge]
F#5                E5
Or end up on debtors' retreat estate
                           E5  D#5
Or debtors' retreat escape
C#5                        E5  A#5
   Debtors' escape estate
C#5           E5     A#5  A5
   Debtors' escape
A5         A#5     G#5
Debtors' retreat escape
A5         A#5     G#5
Debtors' retreat estate
   E5    A#5 G#5
Neurotic red landscape
  A5        A#5     G#5
A socialist state invention
     A5             A#5   G#5
Them old government bones working
A5         A#5    C#5
Debtors' escape estate
E5         A#5     G#5
Debtors' retreat estate
  E5     A5       E5
A no-motivation estate
E5        F#5     G#5
Debtors' escape estate


[Chorus]
F#5
   Pay the borough
        F#5
Pay the borough
         F#5
Pay your rates
        F#5
Pay the borough
        F#5
Pay the borough
        F#5
Pay the borough
         F#5
Pay your rates
         F#5
Pay your water rates
         F#5
Pay your rates
             F#5
[?] worried about
        F#5
Pay the borough
        F#5
Pay the borough
         F#5
Pay your rates
         F#5
Pay your rates