VALENTINE'S DAY IS OVER
WORKERS PLAYTIME- 1988
WORDS and MUSIC: Billy Bragg 1988

Notes
From OLGA with lyrics added. Play with record to get the timing.

Chords:

Intro

C F | F C | F C | F G | F C |

VERSE 1

C F |                             F C |
Some day boy you'll reap what you've sown
F C |                             F G |
You'll catch a cold and you'll be on you own
F C |                             F C |
And you will see that what's wrong with me
F C |
Is wrong with everyone that
Dm                     | G |                        F C |
You want to play your little games on

VERSE 2

C F |                         F C |
Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats
F C |                         F G |
You've gone to the dogs again and I'm not placing bets
F C |                         F C |
On you coming home tonight anything but blind
F C |                                     Dm |              G |
If you take me for granted then you must expect to find
F C |                  C Em Am | (Played as barre chords at 8th, 7th, 5th frets resp.)
Surprise, surprise

CHORUS:

Am |         F C |             F G |      Barre chords  C Em Am |
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
Am | F C          |F C |
Valentine's Day is over

VERSE 3

G                      F                        C
If you want to talk about it well you know where the phone is
G                         E                            F                 Fm
Don't come round reminding me again how brittle bone is
C                                  G            F                     G
God didn't make you an angel the Devil made you a man
C                          E                           F                Fm
That brutality and economy are related now I understand
C                              E                           F                Fm     F C         Barre Chords C Em Am
When will you realise that as above so below there is no love

CHORUS:

Am |         F C |             F G |      Barre chords  C Em Am |
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
Am | F C          |F C |
Valentine's Day is over

INSTRUMENTAL:

G  F  C  G  E  F  Fm

VERSE 4
C                                    G
For the girl with the hour glass figure
F                            G
Time runs out very fast
C                         E                     F                           Fm
We used to want the same things but that's all in the past
C                                        E
And lately it seems that as it all gets tougher
F                                                  Fm                        F C      Barre Chords C Em Am
Your ideal of justice just becomes rougher and rougher
 

CHORUS:

Am |         F C |             F G |      Barre chords  C Em Am |
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
Am | F C          |F C |
Valentine's Day is over

VERSE 5

C                          F                              F                        C
Thank you for the things you bought me thank you for the card
F                          C                              F                        G
Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard
F            C                                           F            C
That love between two people must be based on understanding
F                            C
Until that's true you'll find your things
Dm                           G               F            C         Barre chords  C Em Am
All stacked out on the landing, surprise, surprise

CHORUS:

Am |         F C |             F G |      Barre chords  C Em Am |
Valentine's Day is over, it's over
Am | F C          G C |
Valentine's Day is over
    F C                G C .
its over  its over