Chords for Tank Park Salute live on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno - Billy Bragg

[Em] We're here [F] with [A] Billy Bragg.
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[F] _ _ _ [N] Welcome back! _ _
_ We're done with Billy Bragg.
This is his_.
I like this title, Don't Try This At Home.
Yeah, yeah, we [E] call it that because everyone knows, you know, those warning stickers that
the, uh, the moralists_
That's what it does.
I thought it was a Keith Haring drawing.
Yeah, no, it's the warning stickers that the moralists put on.
Everyone knows they sell more records if they have the stickers on, so I thought I'd put
me own, you know.
Oh, there you go.
Subtle [N] warning on, and people think, oh, we'll try that.
_ _ Kinda anti-marketing.
Now, you're obviously from France with that accent.
No, I'm_
That's England, obviously. Right?
Where about?
London, East London, yeah.
Oh, East London?
Yeah, yeah.
What town?
A town called Barking, with a charming name, Barking, yeah.
Barking?
Barking, yeah.
That's a place in East London.
Thank you.
There you are.
There's more [C] howling, though, than barking.
[Ab] That's howling.
That's further down.
Yeah, yeah.
[Gm] _ Now, is that sort [N] of_
I know a little bit about that.
Is that sort of an industrial area?
Yeah, heavy industrial area.
Docks.
It's on the north of the River Thames, and a big _ motor company there.
Oh, Ford is out there.
Ford's at Dagenham, yeah.
That's the main_
That's what I found.
That's what I was educated to do.
I was educated to work at Ford's, and they were a great inspiration in getting me this job, I thought.
How do you mean?
Well, every year, they used to take us_
The careers [G] officer would take us to the main body plant,
and it was so dark [Ab] and [Gb] hot.
It was like hell in there.
I thought, [N] anything, anything but this.
You mean the career guy from school would say,
This is it.
End your career, what?
Not there.
He actually said to me, if you don't like this, you've got a choice.
It's the army, the navy, or the air force.
So that was when I started learning how to play the guitar.
Big choice of career, is that a career guy?
Well, yeah.
I left school when I was 16, and I thought, you know, I'm going to have to get out of this somehow.
Yeah.
How am I going to get on the Tonight Show?
I thought, that's it.
Yeah, that's it.
Well, being a rivet head is_ Yeah.
Oh, no.
Tell me about this song you're going to do now.
It's a song I wrote [A] about my [G] father, my late father.
A song that was inspired by my experiences when I was 18.
_ _ [Ab] Oh, okay.
All right, _ let's_
I guess we'll head over there and do that, eh, Fred?
Yeah.
Okay, this is_
[E] 16 songs on this album, ladies and gentlemen, packed with [Eb] music.
Packed with music.
[Dm] Look at all those songs.
[Ab] Plenty of dough, plenty of music. _ _ _ _
[G] Billy, _ uh_
_ What do you want?
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_ _ [G] _ Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers.
Leave the lights on [C] at the top of the [G] stairs.
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky.
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_ _ [G] The tree taps on a windowpane.
That feeling smothers me again.
That is it true that we all have to die?
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[G] The top of the _ [C] stairs _ is [G] [D] darkness.
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[G] The top of the _ [C] stairs _ is [G] darkness. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [G] I closed my eyes and when I looked your name was [Cm] in the memorial [G] book.
What had become of all the things we _ planned?
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[G] I accepted the _ _ commiserations of all your [C] friends and your relations.
[G] But there's some things I still don't _ understand.
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ You were [Bm] so tall.
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How [G] could you _ [C] fall? _ _
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_ [G] Two photographs of a summer's day.
_ A little boy's [C] lifetime away.
[G] It's all I've left [Bm] of everything [G] we've done.
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[G] Like a pale moon in a sunny sky.
Death gazes down [C] as I pass by.
[G] To remind me that I'm but my _ father's son.
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ I offer up [Bm] to you _ [C] this _ _ [G] tribute.
_ _ [C] _ _ I offer [G] up to you [C] this tank [Em] of fox _ [G] _ _ _ salute.
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