Chords for Billy Bragg - Home Front

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[Eb] Father mows the lawn, mother peels [Ab] potatoes, _ [Eb] grandma [Ab] lays the table [Bb] _
[Eb] alone
An adjusted photograph of the unknown soldier [Ab] _ [Eb] in this holy [Ab] orphanage [Bb] _
[Ab] town
[Eb] And from the TV [Fm] and hand-watched [Ab] voice suggests [Eb] the answer is [Fm] to plant more _ [Gm] trees
[Ab] The [Eb] skull on the wall [Fm] says, what about [Gm] the workers?
[Ab] And the voice [Bb] of the people [Cm] says, more [Bb] so [Eb] please
Mother shakes her head and reads aloud from the [Ab] newspaper
While [Eb] father puts [Ab] another look on [Bb] the [Eb] door
And reflects upon the violent times you're living [Ab] in
While [Eb] chatting to the [Ab] wife beating [Bb] next [Ab] door
[Eb] A paradise to [Fm] you is cheap [Gm] beer and _
[Ab] overtime, [Eb] home truths are [Fm] easily [Gm] missed _
[Eb] Something that every [Fm] football [Gm] fan knows, [Ab] it only [Bb] takes five fingers [Ab] to form [Dm] a [Cm] fist
And [Bb] when it rains here, it rains so hard
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[Fm] But [G] never hard [Fm] enough to wash [Bb] away the sorrow
[Fm] I'll [Gm] trade my love today [Ab] for a greater [Bb] love [Fm] tomorrow
A [Gm] lonely child [Ab] looks out and dreams of [Bb] independence [Cm] from this [Bb] family [Eb] life [F] sentence _
[Eb] Mother sees but does not read the peeling [Ab] posters
And [Eb] can't believe [Ab] that there's a world [Bb] to be [Eb] won
But in the public schools and in the public [Ab] houses
[Eb] The Battle [Ab] of Britain [Bb] goes [Ab] on
The [Eb] constant [Fm] promise of jam [Cm] tomorrow
[Ab] Is the [Eb] new Greek's [Fm] litany and [G] bust
[Ab] If it takes [Eb] another war to [Fm] fill the [Gm] churches of England
[Ab] Then the world [Bb] will make him [Cm] perit, what will [Am] it be [Eb] worth?
Mother fights the tears from father, his sense of [Ab] outrage
But [F] attempts to justify the _ [Bb] _
[Eb] sacrifice
To pass their creed down to another _ [Ab] generation
_ [Eb] Anything [Ab] for the [Bb] quiet _
[Ab] life
[Eb] In the land [Fm] of a [Gm] thousand houses [Ab] where [Eb] nostalgia is the [Fm] opium of the [Gm] age
[Ab] _ [Eb] Our place in [Fm] history is as [Gm] clock _
[Ab] watchers
[C] Old timers, window _
[Eb] shoppers
By the most alone mother tears [Ab] potatoes
_ [Eb] Oh, [Ab] how soon the [Bb] garden will [Eb] grow
And we'll send photographs of Indian [Ab] soldier
[F] In this holy land [Ab] that is [Bb] her [Eb] home
By the reason that mother will be [Ab] lighter
[F] When we [Ab] pass the threshold
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