Roots Chords by Show Of Hands

_ _ _ [Dm] Oh, it was a good boy
_ _ So, we [D] must learn
We will learn
What he showed us we will learn
Now it's been 25 years or more
I've roamed this land from shore to [G] shore
From time to tame our seven [D] tens
From orc to fale, from pig to fenn
Played in cafes and pubs and bars
I've stood in the street with my own guitar
But [G] I'd be urchin all the [D] rest
If I had a pound for each [F] request
But Julian [Bb] Banjo's American [F] Pie
It's [G] enough to [C] make you [F] cry
Rule [Bb] Britannia or swing [C] low
I'll be the only song the English [Bb] know
Seed, [C] bud, flower, [Dm] fruit
They're never gonna grow without their [Bb] roots
Branch, [C] _ [D] stem, shoot
And the [Dm] herbs
Oh, it was a good boy
I _ [D] fill the speeches when the cake's been cut
The disco's over and the bar is [G] shut
A dristening birthday wedding [Dm] awake
What can we sing until the morning [F] breaks
When the Indian [Bb] angel and damp-throat [F] counts
It's in their [C] blood below the [F] belt
They're playing and [Bb] dancing all night long
[C] So what they got right and we got [Bb] wrong
Seed, [C] bud, flower, [D] fruit
They're never gonna grow without their [Bb] roots
[C] Branch, [Dm] stem, shoot
And the herbs
All the way boys let them go
Out in the wind and rain and snow
Leave us more than we'll ever know
Run the rocky shores of England
All the way boys let them go
Out in the wind and rain and snow
Leave us [Gm] more than we'll ever [Dm] know
Run the rocky shores of England Leave us
And _ _
_ [D] _ the minister said his vision of hell
Is three folk singers [N] in a pub near Wells
Well I've got a vision of urban [D] sprawl
It's pubs where no one ever sings [F] at all
And everyone stares [Bb] at a great big screen
[F]
Overpaid [C] songstars, crime-sink kings, [F] Australian [Dm] soap
[Bb] American rap, [C] history, English baseball caps
[Bb] And we'll be shacked [C] before we grow
[Dm] Of the way we look and the way we talk
[Bb] Without our [C] stories or our [Dm] songs
How will we know where we come from?
[Bb] I've lost that chunk [C] in the Indian Jack
[D] The smile's black too and I want it back
[Bb] Seed, [C] bud, flower, fruit
[D] Never gonna grow without [Bb] their roots
Branch, [C] stem, [Dm] _
shoot
Eagles
All the way boys let them go
Out in the wind and rain and snow
Leave [Am] us more [Dm] than we'll ever know
Run the rocky shores [Bb] of England
[Dm] All the way boys let them go
Out in the wind and rain and snow
Leave us more than we'll ever know
Run the rocky shores [Bb] of England
[Dm] All the way boys let them go
Out in the wind and rain and snow
Leave [G] us more than we [D] can go
Be [Bb] sure to think [Dm] never too hard
Wait for something to come
And even so
[G] Leave us more [Dm] than we available
[C] Be [Bb] sure to [Dm] think never too hard
Waiting for something to comeOne
two _ [Gm] three four
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