Something About England chords by The Clash

Chords with lyrics

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They say immigrants steal the hubcaps
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Of the respected gentlemen
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They say it would be wine an' roses
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If England were for Englishmen again


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Well I saw a dirty overcoat
    A minorAm
At the foot of the pillar of the road
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Propped inside was an old man
   A minorAm
Whom time would not erode
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When the night was snapped by sirens
   A minorAm
Those blue lights circled fast
  G7G7
The dancehall called for an' ambulance
  A minorAm
The bars all closed up fast
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My silence gazing at the ceiling
   A minorAm
While roaming the single room
    G7G7
I thought the old man could help me
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If he could explain the gloom
 A minorAm
You really think it's all new
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You really think about it too
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The old man scoffed as he spoke to me
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I'll tell you athing or two


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I missed the fourteen-eighteen war
  A minorAm E minorEm      A minorAm
But not the sorrow afterwards
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With my father dead and my mother ran off
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My brothers took the pay of hoods
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The twenties turned the north was dead
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The hunger strike came marching south
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At the garden party not a word was said
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The ladies lifted cake to their mouths

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The next war began and my ship sailed
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With battle orders writ in bed
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In five long years of bullets and shells
  A minorAm
We left tem million dead
  C majorC
The few returned to old Piccadily
  A minorAm
We limped around Leicster Square
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The world was busy rebuilding itself
  A minorAm
The architects could not care
  C majorC
But how could we know when I was young
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All the canges that were to come?
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All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield
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And now the terror of the scientific sun
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There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs
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They taught you how to touch your cap
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But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace
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England never closed this gap


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So leave me now the moon is up
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But remember all the tales I tell
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The memories that you have dredged up
    C majorC
Are on letters forwarded from hell

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The streets were by now deserted
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The gangs had trudged off home
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The lights clicked off in the bedsits
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