Chords for East Kilbride
Tempo:
121.15 bpm
Chords used:
C
F
Am
G
Bb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Jet fighters bombed the [C] palace, [F] we all watched it on TV.
[C] The 11th of [Am] September, [F] 1973.
[C]
All across the world, people cried in vain, as we heard stories [Am] of the people [F]
being tortured and slain.
[C] Stories of [Am] the workers, [F] shop stewards and the rest.
Being slaughtered at the [Am] new [C] dictator's behest.
Labour groups condemned it, said [G] we were on the workers' side, [C] including all the [Am] engineers of [F] East Kilbride.
[F] People [C] organized a boycott [Bb] of General Pinochet, who [C] had overthrown [Am] Allende [F] with a hawker-hunter [C] jet.
Then a few months later, [F] March of 74, [C] Bob Fulton came to work at the Rolls-Royce factory floor.
[F]
He looked at the orders [G] that had come in [C] that day, and found crates [Am] with jet [F] engines from Chile.
[C] Jet engines from the Air Force, [F] across the ocean wide, [C]
sent to be [Am] repaired in [F] East Kilbride.
It didn't take a minute for Fulton and his mates [C] to come to the [Am] decision.
[C] They would not touch these crates.
Soon 4,000 Rolls-Royce workers [Bb]
voted, they agreed, [F] to [C] stand with the Chileans in their hour [C] of need.
Management [G] decried them, [F] the Tories screamed and cussed.
But [C] the hawker-hunter [F] engines were left to sit [F] in the rust.
Nowhere else on earth were workers qualified to repair the [Am] engines sitting [F] there in East Kilbride.
It's [C] often hard to know if you've [Bb] changed anything a whit, [C] but decades later [Am] a [F] Chilean general would admit,
for a time in Santiago there were no fighters [Bb] in the sky, [C] because the whole [Am] Chilean Air Force [G] had not one jet that [F] could fly.
[C] They may not have changed [Am] the world, [F] this group of union engineers, [F] but these [C] crates of metal [Am] sat [F] corroding for four [C] years.
So here's to British Lever, how for [F] four years it tried to do what could [Am] be done [C] from East Kilbride.
Jet fighters bombed the palace, [G] we all watched it on TV, [C] the 11th of [Am] September 1973.
[F] [Ab]
[C] The 11th of [Am] September, [F] 1973.
[C]
All across the world, people cried in vain, as we heard stories [Am] of the people [F]
being tortured and slain.
[C] Stories of [Am] the workers, [F] shop stewards and the rest.
Being slaughtered at the [Am] new [C] dictator's behest.
Labour groups condemned it, said [G] we were on the workers' side, [C] including all the [Am] engineers of [F] East Kilbride.
[F] People [C] organized a boycott [Bb] of General Pinochet, who [C] had overthrown [Am] Allende [F] with a hawker-hunter [C] jet.
Then a few months later, [F] March of 74, [C] Bob Fulton came to work at the Rolls-Royce factory floor.
[F]
He looked at the orders [G] that had come in [C] that day, and found crates [Am] with jet [F] engines from Chile.
[C] Jet engines from the Air Force, [F] across the ocean wide, [C]
sent to be [Am] repaired in [F] East Kilbride.
It didn't take a minute for Fulton and his mates [C] to come to the [Am] decision.
[C] They would not touch these crates.
Soon 4,000 Rolls-Royce workers [Bb]
voted, they agreed, [F] to [C] stand with the Chileans in their hour [C] of need.
Management [G] decried them, [F] the Tories screamed and cussed.
But [C] the hawker-hunter [F] engines were left to sit [F] in the rust.
Nowhere else on earth were workers qualified to repair the [Am] engines sitting [F] there in East Kilbride.
It's [C] often hard to know if you've [Bb] changed anything a whit, [C] but decades later [Am] a [F] Chilean general would admit,
for a time in Santiago there were no fighters [Bb] in the sky, [C] because the whole [Am] Chilean Air Force [G] had not one jet that [F] could fly.
[C] They may not have changed [Am] the world, [F] this group of union engineers, [F] but these [C] crates of metal [Am] sat [F] corroding for four [C] years.
So here's to British Lever, how for [F] four years it tried to do what could [Am] be done [C] from East Kilbride.
Jet fighters bombed the palace, [G] we all watched it on TV, [C] the 11th of [Am] September 1973.
[F] [Ab]
Key:
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_ _ _ _ _ Jet fighters bombed the [C] palace, [F] we all watched it on TV.
[C] The 11th of [Am] September, _ [F] 1973.
[C] _
_ All across the world, _ people cried in vain, as we heard stories [Am] of the people [F]
being tortured and slain. _ _ _
[C] Stories of [Am] the workers, [F] shop stewards and the rest.
_ _ _ Being slaughtered at the [Am] new _ [C] _ dictator's behest. _ _ _
Labour groups condemned it, said [G] we were on the workers' side, [C] including all the [Am] engineers of [F] East Kilbride.
_ [F] _ _ _ _ People [C] organized a boycott [Bb] of General Pinochet, who [C] had overthrown [Am] Allende [F] with a hawker-hunter [C] jet.
Then a few months later, [F] March of 74, _ [C] Bob Fulton came to work at the Rolls-Royce factory floor.
_ _ [F] _
He looked at the orders [G] that had come in [C] that day, and found crates [Am] with jet [F] engines from Chile.
_ _ [C] _ Jet engines from the Air Force, [F] across the ocean wide, _ [C]
sent to be [Am] repaired in [F] East Kilbride. _
It _ _ _ didn't take a minute for Fulton and his mates [C] to come to the [Am] decision.
[C] They would not touch these crates. _
Soon 4,000 Rolls-Royce workers [Bb]
voted, they agreed, [F] to [C] stand with the Chileans in their hour [C] of need. _ _ _ _
Management [G] decried them, [F] the Tories screamed and cussed.
_ But [C] the hawker-hunter [F] engines were left to sit [F] in the rust. _
_ Nowhere else on earth were workers qualified to repair the [Am] engines sitting [F] there in East Kilbride. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ It's [C] often hard to know if you've [Bb] changed anything a whit, [C] but decades later [Am] a [F] Chilean general would admit, _
_ _ for a time in Santiago there were no fighters [Bb] in the sky, [C] because the whole [Am] Chilean Air Force [G] had not one jet that [F] could fly. _
_ [C] They may not have changed [Am] the world, [F] this group of union engineers, [F] _ _ _ but these [C] crates of metal [Am] sat [F] corroding for four [C] years.
_ _ _ So here's to British Lever, how for [F] four years it tried to do what could [Am] be done [C] from East Kilbride. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Jet fighters bombed the palace, [G] we all watched it on TV, [C] the 11th of [Am] September _ _ 1973.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] The 11th of [Am] September, _ [F] 1973.
[C] _
_ All across the world, _ people cried in vain, as we heard stories [Am] of the people [F]
being tortured and slain. _ _ _
[C] Stories of [Am] the workers, [F] shop stewards and the rest.
_ _ _ Being slaughtered at the [Am] new _ [C] _ dictator's behest. _ _ _
Labour groups condemned it, said [G] we were on the workers' side, [C] including all the [Am] engineers of [F] East Kilbride.
_ [F] _ _ _ _ People [C] organized a boycott [Bb] of General Pinochet, who [C] had overthrown [Am] Allende [F] with a hawker-hunter [C] jet.
Then a few months later, [F] March of 74, _ [C] Bob Fulton came to work at the Rolls-Royce factory floor.
_ _ [F] _
He looked at the orders [G] that had come in [C] that day, and found crates [Am] with jet [F] engines from Chile.
_ _ [C] _ Jet engines from the Air Force, [F] across the ocean wide, _ [C]
sent to be [Am] repaired in [F] East Kilbride. _
It _ _ _ didn't take a minute for Fulton and his mates [C] to come to the [Am] decision.
[C] They would not touch these crates. _
Soon 4,000 Rolls-Royce workers [Bb]
voted, they agreed, [F] to [C] stand with the Chileans in their hour [C] of need. _ _ _ _
Management [G] decried them, [F] the Tories screamed and cussed.
_ But [C] the hawker-hunter [F] engines were left to sit [F] in the rust. _
_ Nowhere else on earth were workers qualified to repair the [Am] engines sitting [F] there in East Kilbride. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ It's [C] often hard to know if you've [Bb] changed anything a whit, [C] but decades later [Am] a [F] Chilean general would admit, _
_ _ for a time in Santiago there were no fighters [Bb] in the sky, [C] because the whole [Am] Chilean Air Force [G] had not one jet that [F] could fly. _
_ [C] They may not have changed [Am] the world, [F] this group of union engineers, [F] _ _ _ but these [C] crates of metal [Am] sat [F] corroding for four [C] years.
_ _ _ So here's to British Lever, how for [F] four years it tried to do what could [Am] be done [C] from East Kilbride. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Jet fighters bombed the palace, [G] we all watched it on TV, [C] the 11th of [Am] September _ _ 1973.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _