Gavin Osborn - Who Told You Folk Music Was Yours Chords
INTRO:
A Asus4 Asus4 A A A
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A Asus4 Asus4 A
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A Asus4 A
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B -2h3p2-----
G -------2---
D -----------
A -----------
E -----------
VERSE:
A D A Asus4 A
Who told you folk music was yours
A D A Asus4 A
Is it something you heard in the chords
F#m
Did you dig up our roots
F#m
From the fiddle and the flute
A D A Asus4 A
Or was it the ghost of Saint George
A E A Asus4 A
Who told you folk music was yours
VERSE:
A D A Asus4 A
Who showed you your family tree
A D A Asus4 A
'Cause those branches are broken you see
F#m
Did your nationalist pain
F#m
Spring from Celts and Danes
A D A Asus4 A
Or was it our half German queen
A E A Asus4 A
Who showed you your family tree
PRE-CHORUS:
F#m
Playing Bellowhead backwards
F#m A
Do you Anglo Saxons all hear
E
A subliminal code and
F#m
Is your whole agenda
F#m A
Mapped out by the end of the spinning reel
E
By Spears and Bowden
CHORUS:
D
Or do you see a country
E
Draped in red and white
F#m
Where blacks only seen
B
Under cover of night
D
Do the Ceilidh Caller
E
And the Morris Man
F#m
All appeal to your sense
B D D D D
Of a long lost England
VERSE:
A D A Asus4 A
But who said you have right to belong
A D A Asus4 A
Was that something you stole from our songs
F#m
That have been sung through out time
F#m
Every note, every line
A D A Asus4 A
Hand me down by the writer Anon
A E A Asus4 A
Did he say you have right to belong
VERSE:
A D A Asus4 A
And who gave you the key to the door
A D A Asus4 A
Did you pick it up during the war
F#m
Keep it in your pocket
F#m
Until it's time to unlock it
A D A Asus4 A
And stop anyone from coming ashore
A E A Asus4 A
For who gave you the key to the door
PRE-CHORUS:
F#m
Or was it the underdog
F#m A
All that hard work and slog
E
From sailors to farmers
F#m
And that formed your racism
F#m A
Your sense of place and your love
E
Of a tikka masala
CHORUS:
D
All them songs about soldiers
E
All sent off to war
F#m B
Make you forget what you were fighting for
D
As you fly the flag
E
And dream of green pastures
F#m
We recall the strength
B B
Of the Tolpuddle martyrs
BREAK;
B C#m F#m
Well you can still make a fuss at any debate
D E
Oh but here social justice transcends every race
D E F#m F#m F#m F#m
But I'm glad you think folk music's good
D E A A Asus4 Asus4 A A
But you seem to have misunderstood /// / /// / ///
VERSE:
A D A Asus4 A
So stop sitting there on the fence
A D A Asus4 A
The fight is about to commence
F#m
Songs bring us together
F#m
But to change the weather
A D A Asus4 A
But then it's up to the whole audience
A E A Asus4 A
So stop sitting there on the fence
VERSE:
A D A Asus4 A
'Cause folk music belongs to us all
A D A Asus4 A
It catches whenever we fall
F#m
Across villages and towns
F#m
The songs will ring out
Bm
Down the valleys and streams
Bm
Carrying hopes and dreams
F#m
You can hear people come
F#m
To the sound of the drum
Bm
It's inclusivity
Bm
Just the fact that it's free
A D A Asus4 A
Means no fences, no doors, no walls
A E A Asus4 A
'Cause folk music belongs to us all
OUTRO:
F#m
It's inclusivity
F#m
The mere fact that it's free
A D A Asus4 A
Means no fences, no doors, no walls
A E D D D A E A
'Cause folk music belongs to us all /// /// / / /
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