Chords for Billy Bragg - Half English - Video - Moseley Folk 2011
Tempo:
87.75 bpm
Chords used:
C#
C#m
D#
E
F#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
To think of the inhabitants of Dale Farm in Essex trying to live their lives, get their kids schooled, make a go of things.
Is that the kind of country that we want to live in?
Where people evicted off a land that they bought?
[F#] You know the [G] EDL were out in Tower Hamlets [Fm] yesterday, the so-called English Defence League.
Now, [G#m] [D] you and I know that that is not what England is about.
Yet, next week when the Rugby World Cup starts, there will only be one nation taking part that doesn't have its own national anthem.
There will be only one nation taking part that doesn't have its own representative assembly somewhere.
And it will be us.
We have a shyness of some kind about saying, yeah you know what, we are English and it's kind of cool to be English.
I don't know if it's because we want to [C] wrap ourselves in the Union Jack and kid ourselves that we still have an empire.
[D] Whether we're just reticent because we're English.
But, I'll tell you this, until we do start to talk about these things and talk about what we love, about our community, about our cities, about our countryside, about what it is about being [G] English.
Until we start to do that, it will be the EDL [F] and their evil mates who define what it means to be English.
And as far as I'm concerned, I [D] don't want nobody using the flag of my country to intimidate other [C#] people.
[B] [C#]
My mother [D#] was half English [F#] and I'm half [C#] English too.
I'm a great big [C#m] bundle of culture [D#] tied up [C#] in the red, [C#m] white and blue.
[C#] I'm a fine example of your Essex man, well familiar with the Hindu stand.
Because my neighbours are [E] half English [B] and I'm half [C#] English too.
My [E]
[C#] [G#] breakfast [A#] was half English and so am I, [C#] you know.
I had a plate of [C#m] Marmite salt [G#] just washed down with a [C#] cappuccino.
[G#] I have a veggie curry about once a week.
The next [C#] day I fry it up as bubble and squeak.
Because my appetite's half [D#] English and I'm [C#] half English too.
[E] [C#]
[D#]
[D#m] [C#]
Britannia, [E] she's half [D#] English.
She speaks Latin [C#] at home.
St George was born [C#m] in the Lebanon.
[D#] How [D#m] he got here I [C#] don't know.
And those three lions on your shirt never sprung from England's dirt.
Them [C#m] lions are half English and I'm half [C#] English too.
Them lions are [E] half English [D#m] and I'm [F#] half [C#] English [C#m] too.
[C#] [F#] [C#m] [C#]
[N]
Is that the kind of country that we want to live in?
Where people evicted off a land that they bought?
[F#] You know the [G] EDL were out in Tower Hamlets [Fm] yesterday, the so-called English Defence League.
Now, [G#m] [D] you and I know that that is not what England is about.
Yet, next week when the Rugby World Cup starts, there will only be one nation taking part that doesn't have its own national anthem.
There will be only one nation taking part that doesn't have its own representative assembly somewhere.
And it will be us.
We have a shyness of some kind about saying, yeah you know what, we are English and it's kind of cool to be English.
I don't know if it's because we want to [C] wrap ourselves in the Union Jack and kid ourselves that we still have an empire.
[D] Whether we're just reticent because we're English.
But, I'll tell you this, until we do start to talk about these things and talk about what we love, about our community, about our cities, about our countryside, about what it is about being [G] English.
Until we start to do that, it will be the EDL [F] and their evil mates who define what it means to be English.
And as far as I'm concerned, I [D] don't want nobody using the flag of my country to intimidate other [C#] people.
[B] [C#]
My mother [D#] was half English [F#] and I'm half [C#] English too.
I'm a great big [C#m] bundle of culture [D#] tied up [C#] in the red, [C#m] white and blue.
[C#] I'm a fine example of your Essex man, well familiar with the Hindu stand.
Because my neighbours are [E] half English [B] and I'm half [C#] English too.
My [E]
[C#] [G#] breakfast [A#] was half English and so am I, [C#] you know.
I had a plate of [C#m] Marmite salt [G#] just washed down with a [C#] cappuccino.
[G#] I have a veggie curry about once a week.
The next [C#] day I fry it up as bubble and squeak.
Because my appetite's half [D#] English and I'm [C#] half English too.
[E] [C#]
[D#]
[D#m] [C#]
Britannia, [E] she's half [D#] English.
She speaks Latin [C#] at home.
St George was born [C#m] in the Lebanon.
[D#] How [D#m] he got here I [C#] don't know.
And those three lions on your shirt never sprung from England's dirt.
Them [C#m] lions are half English and I'm half [C#] English too.
Them lions are [E] half English [D#m] and I'm [F#] half [C#] English [C#m] too.
[C#] [F#] [C#m] [C#]
[N]
Key:
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C#m
D#
E
F#
C#
C#m
D#
To think of the inhabitants of Dale Farm in Essex trying to live their lives, get their kids schooled, make a go of things.
Is that the kind of country that we want to live in?
Where people evicted off a land that they bought?
[F#] You know the [G] EDL were out in Tower Hamlets [Fm] yesterday, the so-called English Defence League.
Now, [G#m] [D] you and I know that that is not what England is about.
Yet, next week when the Rugby World Cup starts, there will only be one nation taking part that doesn't have its own national anthem.
There will be only one nation taking part that doesn't have its own representative assembly somewhere.
And it will be us.
We have a shyness of some kind about saying, yeah you know what, we are English and it's kind of cool to be English.
I don't know if it's because we want to [C] wrap ourselves in the Union Jack and kid ourselves that we still have an empire.
[D] Whether we're just reticent because we're English.
But, I'll tell you this, until we do start to talk about these things and talk about what we love, about our community, about our cities, about our countryside, about what it is about being [G] English.
Until we start to do that, it will be the EDL [F] and their evil mates who define what it means to be English.
And as far as I'm concerned, I [D] don't want nobody using the flag of my country to intimidate other [C#] people. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C#] _
My mother [D#] was half English [F#] and I'm half [C#] English too.
I'm a great big [C#m] bundle of culture [D#] tied up [C#] in the red, [C#m] white and blue.
[C#] I'm a fine example of your Essex man, well familiar with the Hindu stand.
Because my neighbours are [E] half English [B] and I'm half [C#] English too.
My [E] _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [G#] breakfast [A#] was half English and so am I, [C#] you know.
I had a plate of [C#m] Marmite salt [G#] just washed down with a [C#] cappuccino.
[G#] I have a veggie curry about once a week.
The next [C#] day I fry it up as bubble and squeak.
Because my appetite's half [D#] English and I'm [C#] half English too.
_ _ [E] _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D#] _
[D#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Britannia, [E] she's half [D#] English.
She speaks Latin [C#] at home. _
St George was born [C#m] in the Lebanon.
[D#] How [D#m] he got here I [C#] don't know.
And those three lions on your shirt never sprung from England's dirt.
Them [C#m] lions are half English and I'm half [C#] English too.
Them lions are [E] half English [D#m] and I'm [F#] half [C#] English [C#m] too.
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ [C#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
Is that the kind of country that we want to live in?
Where people evicted off a land that they bought?
[F#] You know the [G] EDL were out in Tower Hamlets [Fm] yesterday, the so-called English Defence League.
Now, [G#m] [D] you and I know that that is not what England is about.
Yet, next week when the Rugby World Cup starts, there will only be one nation taking part that doesn't have its own national anthem.
There will be only one nation taking part that doesn't have its own representative assembly somewhere.
And it will be us.
We have a shyness of some kind about saying, yeah you know what, we are English and it's kind of cool to be English.
I don't know if it's because we want to [C] wrap ourselves in the Union Jack and kid ourselves that we still have an empire.
[D] Whether we're just reticent because we're English.
But, I'll tell you this, until we do start to talk about these things and talk about what we love, about our community, about our cities, about our countryside, about what it is about being [G] English.
Until we start to do that, it will be the EDL [F] and their evil mates who define what it means to be English.
And as far as I'm concerned, I [D] don't want nobody using the flag of my country to intimidate other [C#] people. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C#] _
My mother [D#] was half English [F#] and I'm half [C#] English too.
I'm a great big [C#m] bundle of culture [D#] tied up [C#] in the red, [C#m] white and blue.
[C#] I'm a fine example of your Essex man, well familiar with the Hindu stand.
Because my neighbours are [E] half English [B] and I'm half [C#] English too.
My [E] _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [G#] breakfast [A#] was half English and so am I, [C#] you know.
I had a plate of [C#m] Marmite salt [G#] just washed down with a [C#] cappuccino.
[G#] I have a veggie curry about once a week.
The next [C#] day I fry it up as bubble and squeak.
Because my appetite's half [D#] English and I'm [C#] half English too.
_ _ [E] _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D#] _
[D#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Britannia, [E] she's half [D#] English.
She speaks Latin [C#] at home. _
St George was born [C#m] in the Lebanon.
[D#] How [D#m] he got here I [C#] don't know.
And those three lions on your shirt never sprung from England's dirt.
Them [C#m] lions are half English and I'm half [C#] English too.
Them lions are [E] half English [D#m] and I'm [F#] half [C#] English [C#m] too.
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ [C#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _