Chords for Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger - Ballad of Accounting

_ _ _ _ In the morning [F#m] we built [C#m] the city,
[E] In [E] the afternoon [G#] walked through its [E] streets,
[B] Evening saw us leaving.
_ _ We [G#] wandered through our days as if they would never end,
All of us imagined we had endless time to spend,
We hardly saw the crossroads and [F#m] small attention gave
[G#] To landmines on the journey from the [G#] cradle to the grave,
Cradle to the grave, [C#m] cradle to the grave.
Did you [F#m] learn to [C#m] dream in the morning?
[E] _ [F#] Abandoned dreams in the [E] afternoon?
Wait without hope in [B] the evening?
_ _ [G#] Did you stand there in the traces and let them feed your lies?
Did you trail along behind them wearing blinkers on your eyes?
Did you kiss the foot that kicked you?
[F#m] Did you thank them for their scorn?
[G#] Did you ask for their forgiveness for the act of being born?
Act of being born, act [C#m] of being born.
Did you [F#] alter the face of the city?
Make any [G#] change in the world you found?
[E] Or did you observe [B] all the warning? _
_ [G#] Did you read the trespass notices?
Did you keep off the grass?
Did you shuffle off the [C#] pavement just to let [G#m] your bedders pass?
Did you learn to keep your mouth shut?
[F#m] Were you seen and never heard?
[C#m] Did you learn to be obedient [G#] and jump to add a word?
Jump to add a word, jump to [C#m] add a word.
Did [F#m] you ever demand any answers?
[E] The who and the [G#] what and the reasons [E] why.
Did you ever [B] question the set-up? _
[G#] Did you stand aside and let them choose why you took second best?
Did you let [C#] them skim the cream off and then give [G#] to you the rest?
Did you settle for the shoddy and [F#m] did you think it right
to let them rob you right and left and never make a fight?
Never [C#m] make a fight, never make a fight. _ _
[F#m] What did you [C#m] learn in the morning? _
[E] How much did you know [G#] in the afternoon?
Were you [B] content in the evening? _
_ _ [C#m] Did they teach you how to question when you were at the school?
Did the factory help you grow?
Were you the maker or [G#m] the tool?
Did [C#m] the place where you were living [F#m] enrich your life and then?
Did you reach some understanding of [G#] all your fellow men?
All your fellow men, [C#m] all your fellow men.
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