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The Rice Song

An Epic song about the rising prices of food, and the availability of food. Chords are played as 'power chords' D A B G [Verse 1] walking down china town everyone has got a frown all the stores are all closed accept the pirated dvd stores their always...

from YouTube on Mon, May 12 2008

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