TANK PARK SALUTE
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME- 1991
WORDS and MUSIC:  Billy Bragg - 1991

Notes: From OLGA rousseaf@saguenay.IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Rousseau) with some minor changes.
I watched Billy play this last time in Toronto (December 1998) and this is close

Chords:

Just two parts to the song.

Part I

This repeats

e:----------------------------------------------------------------------
B:-------8---8------8-----8---8-----8------0---0-----------0---0--------
G:---------0---0------------0---0------------0---0---0-------0---0---0--
D:-----9----------9-----------------------------------------------------
A:--10----------------9------------------9---------9-----7---------7----
E:------------------------------------10---------------8----------------
 

Part II
This just repeats a couple of times:

e:---0--------0--------0----
B:---3--------3--------0----
G:---0--------0--------0----
D:---4--------4---sl---2----
A:---5--------5---sl---3----
E:---5--------5---sl---3----

INTRO Part I

Part I
Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the staris
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die

Part II
At the top of the stairs
Is darkness

Part I
I closed my eyes and when I looked
Your name was in the memorial book
And what had become of all the things we planned
I accepted the commiserations
Of all your ffiends and  your relations
But there's some things I still don't understand

Part II
You were so tall
How could you fall?

Part I
Some photographs of a summer's day
A little boy's lifetime away
Is all I'ce lefdt of everything we've done
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as I pass by
To remind me that I'm but my father's son

Part II
I offer up to you
This tribute
I offer up to you
This tank park salute
 

Now try playing and singing at the same time.
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