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The Bad Squire by Chumbawamba

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Difficulty: Novice

The Bad Squire
Submitted by Henning
Capo on 3rd fret

Intro:
  am
e|---------------|
Chord diagramBB|----1-1---1-1--|
Chord diagramG+G|---2-2---2-2---|
Chord diagramD MajorD|--------2------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|-0-------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|---------------|

Part 1:
  am      Chord diagramG+G     am  Chord diagramG+G  am
e|------------------------------------------------------|
Chord diagramBB|----1-1---1-1---0-0--0-0---1-1--0-0--1-1--1-1---------|
Chord diagramG+G|---2-2---2-2---0-0--0-0---2-2--0-0--2-2--2-2----------|
Chord diagramD MajorD|--------2----------0--------------------2-------------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|-0-----------------------0---------0------------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|--------------3---------------3-----------------------|

Part 2:
  Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramG+G     am     em
e|------------------------------------------------------|
Chord diagramBB|---1-1--1-1---0-0--0-0—--1-1--1-1---0-0--0-0----------|
Chord diagramG+G|--0-0--0-0---0-0--0-0---2-2--2-2---0-0--0-0-----------|
Chord diagramD MajorD|------2----------0----------2----------2--------------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|-3---------------------0------------------------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|------------3---------------------0-------------------|

Structure:
Intro: x4
Part1: x2
Part2: x1
Part1: x1
Intro: x1

Part1: x2
Part2: x1 and so on

am             Chord diagramG+G
The merry brown hares came a-leaping
am    Chord diagramG+G      am
Over the crest of the hill
am               Chord diagramG+G
Where the clover and corn lay a-sleeping
am    Chord diagramG+G      am
Under the moonlight so still
Chord diagramC majorC           Chord diagramG+G
Leaping so late and so early
am                em
'Till under their bite and their tread
am                Chord diagramG+G
The swedes and the wheat and the barley
am        Chord diagramG+G      am
Lay cankered and trampled and dead

Chord diagramA augmentedA poacher's poor widow sat sighing
On the side of the moss-patterned bank
Where under the gloom of the fir-woods
One acre of ground laying rank
She watched over barely grown clover
Where rabbit or hare never ran
For the ground that it all covered over
Hid the blood of a good murdered man

She thought of the shaded plantation
And the hares and her husband's own blood
And the voice of her own indignation
Rose up to the throne of her God
There's blood on your new foreign shrubs, Squire
There's blood on your pointer's cold feet
There's blood on the game that you sell Squire
And there's blood on the game that you eat

You have sold out the labouring man, Squire
Both body and soul for to shame
To pay for your seat in the House, Squire
And to pay for the feed of your game
You made him a poacher yourself, Squire
When you'd give not the work nor the meat
And your barley-fed hares robbed the garden
At our starving poor little one's feet

When packed into one tiny chamber
Man, mother and little ones lay
While the rain pattered in on our bride bed
And the walls barely held out the day
When we lay in the heat of the fever
On the mud and the clay of the floor
'Till you parted us all for three months, Squire
And we knocked at the working house door

So to kennels and liveried varlets
Where you starved your own daughter of bread
And worn out with liquor and harlots
See your heirs at your feet lying dead
When you follow them into your heaven
And your soul rots asleep in the grave
Then Squire, you will not be forgiven
By the free men you took as your slaves

That’s how I play it..
Actually I think Chumbawamba don’t uses a capo and plays barchords like this:

Intro:
  cm
e|---------------|
Chord diagramBB|----4-4---4-4--|
Chord diagramG+G|---5-5---5-5---|
Chord diagramD MajorD|--------5------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|-3-------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|---------------|

Part 1:
  cm      Chord diagramBb majorBb     cm  Chord diagramBb majorBb  cm
e|------------------------------------------------------|
Chord diagramBB|----4-4---4-4---3-3--3-3---4-4---3-3---4-4---4-4------|
Chord diagramG+G|---5-5---5-5---3-3--3-3---5-5---3-3---5-5---5-5-------|
Chord diagramD MajorD|--------5----------3-----------------------5----------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|-3------------1----------3-----1-----3----------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|------------------------------------------------------|

Part 2:
  Chord diagramD#D#     Chord diagramBb majorBb     cm     gm
e|------------------------------------------------------|
Chord diagramBB|---8-8--8-8---6-6--6-6—--4-4--4-4---3-3--3-3----------|
Chord diagramG+G|--8-8--8-8---7-7--7-7---5-5--5-5---3-3--3-3-----------|
Chord diagramD MajorD|------8---------------------5-------------------------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|-6---------------8-----3---------------5--------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|------------6---------------------3-------------------|

But I think it’s way easier with a capo on the third fret. So enjoy and have fun with
this beautiful song…

Chords used:

  Chord diagramA minorAm Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramC majorC  em cm Chord diagramBb majorBb Chord diagramBb majorBb Chord diagramD#D# gm
e|-0---3---0---0---3---1---6---6---3--|
Chord diagramBB|-1---0---1---0---4--—3---6---8---3--|
Chord diagramG+G|-2---0---0---0---5---3---7---8---3--|
Chord diagramD MajorD|-2---0---2---2---5---3---8---8---5--|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|-0---2---3---2---3---1---8---6---5--|

THE END!

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