WILLIAM BLOKE- 1996
WORDS and MUSIC: Billy Bragg - 1996
Notes
Have this on my computer although I can't seem to find it on OLGA now.
From the Mackay School Suport Centre mssc@jasper.cqu.edu.au.I find that on the CD the tuning is about a quarter lower but the chords below work when you play along to a live version.
All barre chordsChords:
INTRO (And end of every verse)
e:---1----1------|-------------------|
B:---1----1------|----1---O---1-O----|
G:---2----2------|----1---O-------O--|
D:---------------|----2---O----------|
A:---------------|--O----------------|
E:1----1----1-3--|-------------------|
F Am Gm Bb
Another day dawns grey, it's enough to make me spit
F Am Bb Gm
But we go on our way, just putting up with it
C Dm C Bb Gm
And when I try to make my feelings known to you
F Am Bb Gm F intro notes
You sound like you have changed from red to blueF Am Gm Bb
You're a father now, you see things in different ways
F Am Bb Gm
For every parent will gain perspective on their wilder days
C Dm C Bb Gm
But that alone does not explain the change I see in you
F Am Bb Gm F intro notes
The way you've drifted off from red to blueDm C B F
Sometimes I think to myself
Bb F Bb F
Should I vote red for my class or green for our children?
Dm C Bb F
But whatever choice I make
Bb
I will not forsake
e:--------------------|
B:-------8---6---5---3|
G:-------9---7---5---3|
D:----10---8---7---5--| ????
A:--------------------|
E:--------------------|F Am Gm Bb
So you bought it all, the best your money could buy
F Am Bb Gm
And I watched you sell your soul for their bright shining lie
C Dm C Bb Gm
Where are the principles of the friend I thought I knew?
F Am Bb Gm F intro notes
I guess you let them fade from red to blueF Am Gm Bb
I hate the compromises that life forces us to make
F Am Bb Gm
We must all bend a little if we are not to break
C Dm C Bb Gm
But the ideals you've opted out of, I still hold them to be true
F Am Bb Gm F (hold)
I guess they weren't so firmly held by you
