Chords for Billy Bragg - The Home Front (1986)

Tempo:
111.5 bpm
Chords used:

Ab

Eb

Bb

Fm

Gm

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Billy Bragg - The Home Front (1986) chords
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[Ab] [Eb] [Ab] [Bb]
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[Eb] I'm the master law and mother peels [Ab] potatoes, [Eb] grandma lays the [Ab] table [Bb]
[Eb] alone
And I just saw a photograph of the unknown [Ab] soldier [Eb] in this [Ab] holy of holies [Bb] little [Ab] home
And [Eb] from the TV [Fm] and hand [Gm]-watched voice [Ab] suggests [Eb] the answer is to [Fm] plant more [Gm] trees
[Ab] The school [Eb] 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 newspaper
[Ab] While [Eb] father puts [Ab] another from [Bb] the [Eb] door and reflects upon the violent times
And living [Ab] in while [Eb] chatting to the [Ab] wife beats her [Bb] next [Ab] door
[Eb] Paradise to [Fm] you is cheap [Gm] beer and
[Ab] overtime, [Eb] home truths are [Fm] easily [Gm] missed
[Ab] Something [Eb] that every [Fm] [Gm] football fan knows, [Ab] it only [Bb] takes five fingers [Ab] to form [Bb] a [Cm] fist
When [Bb] it rains here it rains so hard [Gm]
[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 love tomorrow
[F] A [Gm] lonely child looks [Ab] 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 that [Ab] there's a world to [Bb] 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 promise [Fm] of jam [Cm] tomorrow [Ab] is the new [Eb] Greece [Fm] litany and [G] verse
[Ab] If it takes [Eb] another war to [Fm] fill the churches [Gm] of England [Ab] then the world will [Bb] make inherit [Cm] what will [Dm] it be [Eb] worth
Mother fights the tears and father his sense of [Ab]
outrage and [Eb] attempts to justify [Ab] the [Bb]
[Eb] sacrifice
To pass their creed down to another generation, [Ab] [Eb] anything [Ab] for the quiet [Bb]
[Ab] life
[Eb] In the land of [Fm] a [Gm] thousand hoses [Ab] where nostalgia [Eb] is the opium [Fm] of the [Gm] age
[Ab] Our [Eb] place in history [Fm] is as [Gm] club [Ab] watchers, [Bb] old [Cm] timers, window [Dm]
[Eb] shoppers
By the most baloney mother picked [Ab] potatoes, [Eb] oh how [Ab] she would rather [Bb] grow
[Eb] Where's that photograph of the inborn [Ab] soldier [Eb] in this [Ab] hollyhocky [Bb] stone
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[Eb] I'm the master law and mother peels [Ab] potatoes, [Eb] grandma lays the [Ab] table [Bb] _
[Eb] alone
And I just saw a photograph of the unknown [Ab] soldier [Eb] in this [Ab] holy of holies [Bb] little [Ab] home
And [Eb] from the TV [Fm] and hand [Gm]-watched voice [Ab] suggests [Eb] the answer is to [Fm] plant more [Gm] trees
[Ab] The school [Eb] 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 newspaper
[Ab] While [Eb] father puts [Ab] another from [Bb] the [Eb] door and reflects upon the violent times
And living [Ab] in while [Eb] chatting to the [Ab] wife beats her [Bb] next [Ab] door
[Eb] Paradise to [Fm] you is cheap [Gm] beer and _
[Ab] overtime, [Eb] home truths are [Fm] easily [Gm] missed _
[Ab] Something [Eb] that every [Fm] _ [Gm] football fan knows, [Ab] it only [Bb] takes five fingers [Ab] to form [Bb] a [Cm] fist
When [Bb] it rains here it rains so hard _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[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 love tomorrow
[F] A [Gm] lonely child looks [Ab] 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 that [Ab] there's a world to [Bb] 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 promise [Fm] of jam [Cm] tomorrow [Ab] is the new [Eb] Greece [Fm] litany and [G] verse
[Ab] If it takes [Eb] another war to [Fm] fill the churches [Gm] of England [Ab] then the world will [Bb] make inherit [Cm] what will [Dm] it be [Eb] worth
Mother fights the tears and father his sense of [Ab]
outrage and [Eb] attempts to justify [Ab] the _ [Bb] _
[Eb] sacrifice
To pass their creed down to another generation, [Ab] _ [Eb] anything [Ab] for the quiet [Bb] _
[Ab] life
[Eb] In the land of [Fm] a [Gm] thousand hoses [Ab] where nostalgia [Eb] is the opium [Fm] of the _ [Gm] age
[Ab] Our [Eb] place in history [Fm] is as [Gm] club [Ab] watchers, [Bb] old [Cm] timers, window [Dm] _
[Eb] shoppers
By the most baloney mother picked [Ab] potatoes, [Eb] oh how [Ab] she would rather [Bb] grow
[Eb] _ Where's that photograph of the inborn [Ab] soldier [Eb] in this _ [Ab] hollyhocky [Bb] stone _
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