English Scheme Chords

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) 🎸 Intro: F C F C F C F C 🎸 Verse: F C F C O'er grassy dale, and lowland scene F C F Come see, come hear, the English Scheme. C C C F F C The lower-class, want brass, bad chests, scrounge fags. F C The clever ones tend to emigrate 🎸 Bridge:

F F C F 🎸 Verse: C F F C F C Like your psychotic big brother, who left home F C For jobs in Holland, Munich, Rome F C He's thick but he struck it rich, switch C C F C The commune crap, camp bop, middle-class, flip-flop F F C Guess that's why they end up in bands F C He's the green piece in us all F C F He's the creep-creep in us all C Condescends to black men F C Very nice to them F C F C They talk of Chile while driving through Haslingden F C F C You got sixty hour weeks, and stone stone toilet back-gardens C C C C Peter Cook's jokes, bad dope, check shirts, lousy groups D C A Point their fingers at America 🎸 Bridge: A C D C D C 🎸 Verse: D A D C Down pokey quaint streets in Cambridge D A A D Cycles our distant spastic heritage D F C# C C Its a gay red, roundhead, army career, grim head F C C If we was smart we'd emigrate 🎸 Outro: C C C# F C