The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions chords by Billy Bragg

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

E minorEm B minorBm A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm E minorEm B minorBm E minorEm A minorAm E minorEm BB E minorEm


🎸 Verse 1:
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Here we are seeking out the reds
A minorAm          E minorEm
Trying to keep the communists in order
A minorAm       E minorEm
Just remember when you're sleeping in your beds
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They're only two days drive from the Texas border
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How can a country large as ours
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Be scared of such a threat?
E minorEm
Well if they won't work for us
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They're against us you can bet
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They may be sovereign countries
   E minorEm  D MajorD
But you folks at home forget
      E minorEm   D MajorD
That they all want what we've got
 E minorEm
But they don't know it yet

🎸 Chorus:
BB   E MajorE   BB   A augmentedA
Tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la
  BB            E MajorE
We're making the world safe for capitalism


🎸 Instrumental:
E minorEm B minorBm A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm E minorEm B minorBm E minorEm A minorAm E minorEm BB E minorEm


🎸 Verse 2:
E minorEm          BB
Here we come with our candy and our guns
A minorAm                 E minorEm
And our corporate muscle marches in behind us
   A minorAm               E minorEm
For freedom's just another word for nothing left to sell
      BB
And if you want narcotics we can get you those as well
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We help the multinationals
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When they cry out "protect us!"
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The locals scream and shout a bit
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But we don't let that affect us
               F# minorF#m
We're there to lend a helping hand
  E minorEm          D MajorD
In case they don't elect us
E minorEm            D MajorD
How dare they buy our products
   E minorEm
Yet still they don't respect us

🎸 Chorus:
    BB     E MajorE       BB      A augmentedA
Tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la
    BB                E MajorE
We're making the world safe for capitalism


🎸 Bridge:
  E minorEm       BB
If you thought the army
  A minorAm                E minorEm
Was here protecting people like yourself
A minorAm         E minorEm
I've some news for you
        BB   E minorEm
We're here to defend wealth
 A minorAm        E minorEm    E MajorE
Away with nuns and bishops (Romero!)
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The good Lord will help those who'll help themselves
A minorAm         E minorEm
I've some news for you
       BB   E minorEm  E MajorE
We're here to defend wealth


🎸 Outro:
    BB     E MajorE       BB      A augmentedA
Tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la
    BB                E MajorE
We're making the world safe for capitalism
    BB     E MajorE       BB      A augmentedA
Tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la
    BB                E MajorE
We're making the world safe for capitalism
    BB     E MajorE       BB      A augmentedA
Tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la
    BB                E MajorE
We're making the world safe for capitalism
    BB     E MajorE       BB      A augmentedA
Tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la tra-la-la-la
    BB                E MajorE
We're making the world safe for capitalism

(Fade out)