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      Here is UB40's 'One In Ten' for Rhythm Guitar and it's Lyric layout,
It was a Single off their second L.P originally released in 1981 'Present Arms'.

[Note]
This song was written on Drums and Rhythm Guitar alone at first using just two Chords G & F,
Although the Bass line,Lead Guitar,Saxophone and the fact it sounds better point to 
it being Gm & F,It just isn't!
I'll place the Gm Chord diagram if you want to do what I do and use it,But G & F is UB40 official.

[Chords]
G         F              (Gm)
EADGBE    EADGBE          EADGBE
355433    133211          355333

[Intro Play Twice]
G  F  G  F  G  F  G  F  

[Chorus 1]
G                     F
I am the one in ten,A number on a list
G                   F
I am the one in ten,Even though I don't exist
G             F
Nobody knows me,But I'm always there
G                 F
A statistic,A reminder of a world that doesn't care,

[Saxophone Instrumental]
G  F  G  F  G  F  G  F  

[Verse 1]
G                                          F
My arms unfold the dole queue,Malnutrition dulls my hair
G                                            F
My eyes are black and lifeless with an underprivileged stare
G                                    F
I`m the beggar on the corner will no one spare a dime?
G                                      F
I`m the child that never learns to read 'cause no one spared the time,

[Chorus 2]
G                     F
I am the one in ten,A number on a list 
G                   F
I am the one in ten,Even though I don`t exist 
G             F
Nobody knows me,But I'm always there
G                 F
A statistic,A reminder of a world that doesn't care,

[Saxophone Instrumental]
G  F  G  F  G  F  G  F  

[Verse 2]
G                                      F
I`m the murderer,The victim,I'm the license to a gun
G                                        F
I`m a sad and bruised old lady in an ally in a slum
G                                         F
I`m a middle aged businessman with chronic heart disease
G                          F
I`m another teenage suicide in a street that has no trees,

[Chorus 3]
G                     F
I am the one in ten,A number on a list
G                   F
I am the one in ten,Even though I don`t exist
G             F
Nobody knows me,But I'm always there,
G                 F           
A statistic,A reminder of a world that doesn't care,

[Saxophone Instrumental]
G  F  G  F  G  F  G  F  

[Verse 3]
G                                             F
I`m a starving third world mother,Refugee with out a home
G                                         F
I`m a housewife hooked on Valium,I`m a pensioner alone
G                                  F
I`m a cancer ridden spectre discovering the earth
G                      F
I`m another hungry baby I'm an accident at birth, 

[Chorus 4]
G                     F
I am the one in ten,A number on a list
G                   F
I am the one in ten,Even though I don`t exist
G             F
Nobody knows me,But I'm always there
G                 F
A statistic,A reminder of a world that does`nt care,

[Saxophone Instrumental]
G  F  G  F  G  F  G  F    

[Chorus 5]
G                     F
I am the one in ten,A number on a list
G                   F
I am the one in ten,Even though I don`t exist
G             F
Nobody knows me,But i`m always there
N.C
A statistic,A reminder of a world that doesn't care.

[Outro Till Fade]
G  F  G  F  G  F  G  F  


Comments,Etc Always welcome,Enjoy!!
    

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