Ballad Of Accounting chords by Ewan Maccoll

Chords with lyrics

Thanks to Jack Dingler [email protected] for the original Chrods for this song...
I've added the Chords
through the verses to make it easier to follow!

A minorAm        E7E7    A minorAm
In the morning we built the city
    C majorC        G+G      E minorEm
In the afternoon walked through its streets
A minorAm   E minorEm   E7E7
Evening saw us leaving
  A minorAm                  E7E7     A minorAm
We wandered through our days as if they would never end
A minorAm    G+G        A minorAm       E minorEm
All of us imagined we had endless time to spend
  A minorAm              G+G
We hardly saw the crossroads and small attention gave
  A minorAm                E7E7      A minorAm
To landmarks on the journey from the cradle to the grave,
E7E7      A minorAm   E7E7      A minorAm
cradle to the grave, cradle to the grave

A minorAm        E7E7      A minorAm
Did you learn to dream in the morning?
C majorC    G+G       E minorEm
Abandon dreams in the afternoon?
A minorAm      E minorEm     E7E7
Wait without hope in the evening?
    A minorAm              E7E7        A minorAm
Did you stand there in the traces and let 'em feed you lies?
    A minorAm     G+G          A minorAm        E minorEm
Did you trail along behind them wearing blinkers on your eyes?
    A minorAm                   G+G
Did you kiss the foot that kicked you, did you thank them for their scorn?
    A minorAm                E7E7     A minorAm
Did you ask for their forgiveness for the act of being born,
E7E7      A minorAm  E7E7      A minorAm
act of being born,act of being born?


A minorAm        E7E7     A minorAm
Did you alter the face of the city?
C majorC    G+G       E minorEm
Make any change in the world you found?
  A minorAm   E minorEm       E7E7
Or did you observe all the warnings?
    A minorAm               E7E7        A minorAm
Did you read the trespass notices, did you keep off the grass?
    A minorAm       G+G         A minorAm        E minorEm
Did you shuffle up the pavements just to let your betters pass?
    A minorAm                   G+G
Did you learn to keep your mouth shut, were you seen but never heard?
  A minorAm            E7E7      A minorAm
Did you learn to be obedient and jump to at a word,
E7E7      A minorAm  E7E7      A minorAm
jump to at a word, jump to at a word?

A minorAm   E7E7     A minorAm
Did you demand any answers?
  C majorC      G+G      E minorEm
The who and the what and the reason why?
A minorAm      E minorEm      E7E7
Did you ever question the setup?
    A minorAm                  E7E7       A minorAm
Did you stand aside and let 'em choose while you took second best?
    A minorAm        G+G       A minorAm       E minorEm
Did you let 'em skim the cream off and give to you the rest?
    A minorAm            G+G
Did you settle for the shoddy and did you think it right
  A minorAm                 E7E7      A minorAm
To let 'em rob you right and left and never make a fight,
E7E7      A minorAm   E7E7      A minorAm
never make a fight, never make a fight?


A minorAm      E7E7      A minorAm
What did you learn in the morning?
C majorC        G+G      E minorEm
How much did you know in the afternoon?
A minorAm    E minorEm       E7E7
Were you content in the evening?
     A minorAm              E7E7        A minorAm
Did they teach you how to question when you were at the school?
    A minorAm   G+G         A minorAm      E minorEm
Did the factory help, were you the maker or the tool?
    A minorAm             G+G
Did the place where you were living enrich your life and then
    A minorAm             E7E7       A minorAm
Did you reach some understanding of all your fellow men,
E7E7    A minorAm     E7E7    A minorAm
all your fellow men, all your fellow men?