Chords for Steve Knightley - Country Life - Songs From The Shed

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[E] Country _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ life. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Left is white.
It's an everyday story of [C] country life. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] And the red [Em] brick cottage [D] where I [C] was born
_ [G] is the empty shell of a [D] holiday home.
[Gm] _ _ [Em] Most of the year [C] there's no one there.
[D] The village is dead and they don't care.
[C] But now we live [D] on the [G] edge of town.
[A] We haven't been back since [Em] the pub closed down.
_ [C] One man's [D] family pays [G] the price
[Am] for another man's vision [C] of country _ life. _ _ _
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Singing [Em] in the low, low, [C] low. _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [E] Well _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
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[E] my old [G] man is eighty [C]-four. _
[G] His generation [D] won the war.
[Em] But he left the farm [C] forever when
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they only kept on [D] one in [C] ten.
Land in [D] Gentry County [Gm] shops
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where we knew when [Em] they lost their jobs
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no one [D] marched or _ [G] subsidized
[A] to save a country [Em] or way [C] of life.
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_ _ _ Singing [Em] in the low, _ [C] _ _ _ [D] low, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] low. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] But if [C] we want cheap food here's the deal.
[G] _ _ [D] Family farms are brought to heel
[C] by a hammer blow of size and scale.
[D] _ Foot and mouth are fine and nail [E] in the coffin _
[C] of our English dream.
[D] It's out there [E] on the village green
[Em] where angry barracks [C] cap in hand.
[D] We'll strip our green and pleasant land
[Em] of meadow, [C] woodland, hedgerow, pond.
[D] Water _ remains _ [Gm] _ _ [C] they'd build a pond.
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_ _ _ _ [C] Out to graze they look so sweet.
[D] We hate the blood, we love the meat.
[C] Buy me a beer I'll take my [D] knife.
Cut you a slice of [Em] country life.
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_ [E] _ Of [Em] country _ life.
[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ Of [Em] country _ _ [C] life.
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_ _ I'm singing [Bm] _ in the low, _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] low, low. _
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_ _ _ _ [C] It's a little bit, _ _ _ _ [D] it's a little slice
_ of _ country [Em]
life. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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