Biography:
Beans On Toast (aka Jay MacCallister) is a British folk singer from Essex, UK, who rose to out of the UK folk scene in 2005. He is well known for his self-deprecating and honest songwriting, which openly deals with the topics of politics, drugs and love. He has six studios albums and has traditionally released a new record each year on his birthday, 1 December.
Jay claims the songs he writes 'have the same chords' and 'sound like Billy Bragg'. His close friend Frank Turner mentions Jay in many of his songs: I Knew Prufock Before He Got Famous
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Other songs:
- A Whole Lot Of Loving
- Beer And A Burger
- Coke
- Dirty Pi
- Dont Believe The Bullshit
- Free Nights Of Riots
- I Fancy Laura Marling
- I Think Everybody Should Be Terrified
- Im Home When You Hold Me
- Jamie Lily
- Magic
- Mdm Amazing
- Microwave Popcorn
- Myspace Picture
- Old Grunge
- Peter Pans Playground
- Price Of Rice
- The American Dollar
- The Ignorant Englishman
- Things
- War On War
- Watching The World Go By
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A brilliant song by a brilliant artist
Don't Believe The Bullshit
Beans On Toast
Standing On A Chair
Standard Tuning
Verse 1:
C F
Well he talks with a polish accent,And he works with a sense of pride,
G C
He says "If you think you've had it hard, I'll swap your life with mine",
C F
He works his fucking bollocks off, for 4.50 an hour,
G C
Says the economy in Poland, is even worse than our one,
Verse 2:
C F
So tradesmen around eng-erland, all start to lose their jobs,
G C
And everybody understands when they all got pissed off,
C F
Well none of 'em are racist, but they don't know what to do,
G C
When you can't afford the mortgage, and you can't afford the food,
Pre-Chorus:
F C G
Is this the economics of recession?,
F C G
Or xenophobia?,
F C G
Well lets just hope that we don't end up hating one another,
G C
'Cause I can't see the point in that
Chorus:
F C G
And it goes WAR, Recession, Recession and then war,
F C
It's written in the history books,
G
We've seen it all before,
F C
I'll sing a song of freedom,
G
And all I can say is,
F G C
Just Don't, Believe, The Bullshit
F G C
Oh just Don't, Believe, The Bullshit
Verse 3:
C F
Oh there's trouble in the Gaza Strip again today,
G C
It's a never ending conflict all the newspapers say
C F
The war is a religous one thats hard to understand
G C
But there isn't a religion that said, to kill another man
Pre-Chorus:
F C G
Shall we blame it on the ones who sold 'em weapons,
F C G
Or extremist, religous twats,
F C G
Well lets just hope that they don't end up killing everybody,
G C
'Cause I can't see the point in that
Chorus:
F C G
And it goes WAR, Recession, Recession and then war,
F C
It's written in the history books,
G
We've seen it all before,
F C
I'll sing a song of freedom,
G
And all I can say is,
F G C
Just Don't, Believe, The Bullshit
F G C
Oh just Don't, Believe, The Bullshit
Don't Believe The Bullshit
Beans On Toast
Standing On A Chair
Standard Tuning
Verse 1:
C F
Well he talks with a polish accent,And he works with a sense of pride,
G C
He says "If you think you've had it hard, I'll swap your life with mine",
C F
He works his fucking bollocks off, for 4.50 an hour,
G C
Says the economy in Poland, is even worse than our one,
Verse 2:
C F
So tradesmen around eng-erland, all start to lose their jobs,
G C
And everybody understands when they all got pissed off,
C F
Well none of 'em are racist, but they don't know what to do,
G C
When you can't afford the mortgage, and you can't afford the food,
Pre-Chorus:
F C G
Is this the economics of recession?,
F C G
Or xenophobia?,
F C G
Well lets just hope that we don't end up hating one another,
G C
'Cause I can't see the point in that
Chorus:
F C G
And it goes WAR, Recession, Recession and then war,
F C
It's written in the history books,
G
We've seen it all before,
F C
I'll sing a song of freedom,
G
And all I can say is,
F G C
Just Don't, Believe, The Bullshit
F G C
Oh just Don't, Believe, The Bullshit
Verse 3:
C F
Oh there's trouble in the Gaza Strip again today,
G C
It's a never ending conflict all the newspapers say
C F
The war is a religous one thats hard to understand
G C
But there isn't a religion that said, to kill another man
Pre-Chorus:
F C G
Shall we blame it on the ones who sold 'em weapons,
F C G
Or extremist, religous twats,
F C G
Well lets just hope that they don't end up killing everybody,
G C
'Cause I can't see the point in that
Chorus:
F C G
And it goes WAR, Recession, Recession and then war,
F C
It's written in the history books,
G
We've seen it all before,
F C
I'll sing a song of freedom,
G
And all I can say is,
F G C
Just Don't, Believe, The Bullshit
F G C
Oh just Don't, Believe, The Bullshit
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