English Scheme chords by The Fall

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Intro:

FF C majorC FF C majorC
FF C majorC FF C majorC


🎸 Verse:

   FF        C majorC       FF    C majorC
O'er grassy dale, and lowland scene
   FF          C majorC        FF
Come see, come hear, the English Scheme.
C majorC  C majorC      C majorC  FF   FF      C majorC
The lower-class, want brass, bad chests, scrounge fags.
FF            C majorC
The clever ones tend to emigrate

🎸 Bridge:

FF F C majorC FF

🎸 Verse:

C majorC       FF         FF  C majorC     FF   C majorC
Like your psychotic big brother, who left home
  FF        C majorC
For jobs in Holland, Munich, Rome
   FF           C majorC
He's thick but he struck it rich, switch
  C majorC       C majorC     FF       C majorC
The commune crap, camp bop, middle-class, flip-flop
FF             FF   C majorC
Guess that's why they end up in bands
     FF      C majorC
He's the green piece in us all
     FF      C majorC     FF
He's the creep-creep in us all
      C majorC
Condescends to black men
FF     C majorC
Very nice to them
   FF          C majorC        FF      C majorC
They talk of Chile while driving through Haslingden
    FF           C majorC         FF      C majorC
You got sixty hour weeks, and stone stone toilet back-gardens
   C majorC       C majorC     C majorC       C majorC
Peter Cook's jokes, bad dope, check shirts, lousy groups
D MajorD           C majorC  A augmentedA
Point their fingers at America

🎸 Bridge:

A augmentedA C majorC D MajorD
C majorC D MajorD C majorC

🎸 Verse:

   D MajorD          A augmentedA       D MajorD   C majorC
Down pokey quaint streets in Cambridge
      D MajorD    A augmentedA    A augmentedA     D MajorD
Cycles our distant spastic heritage
D MajorD   FF    C#C#     C majorC      C majorC
Its a gay red, roundhead, army career, grim head
  FF   C majorC     C majorC
If we was smart we'd emigrate


🎸 Outro:

C majorC C C#C# FF C majorC