Who Told You Folk Music Was Yours chords by Osborn Gavin (Ver. 2)

• Tuning: Standard tuning
• Difficulty: Beginner

SONG :  WHO TOLD YOU FOLK MUSIC WAS YOURS?
ARTIST: GAVIN OSBORN
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL:  GUITARZAN7@HOTMAIL.COM


    WHO TOLD YOU FOLK MUSIC WAS YOURS?
         GAVIN OSBORN


INTRO:
A   Asus4 Asus4 A  A  A
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 A Asus4 Asus4 A
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  A Asus4 A
E -----------
B -2h3p2-----
G -------2---
D -----------
A -----------
E -----------


VERSE:
 A         D     A  Asus4 A
Who told you folk music was yours
    A       D      A  Asus4 A
Is it something you heard in the chords

    F#m
Did you dig up our roots
     F#m
From the fiddle and the flute
  A      D       A  Asus4 A
Or was it the ghost of Saint George
   A       E     A  Asus4 A
Who told you folk music was yours


VERSE:
   A       D   A  Asus4 A
Who showed you your family tree
        A      D     A  Asus4 A
`Cause those branches are broken you see
     F#m
Did your nationalist fame
    F#m
Spring from Celts and Danes
  A     D      A  Asus4 A
Or was it our half German queen
   A       E   A  Asus4 A
Who showed you your family tree


PRE-CHORUS:
    F#m
Playing bellow hair backwards
  F#m          A
Do you Anglo Saxons all hear
       E
A subliminal code and

  F#m
Is your whole agenda
    F#m           A
Mapped out by the end of the spinning reel
        E
By spears and bow then


CHORUS:
    D
Or do you see a country
    E
Draped in red and white
    F#m
Where blacks only seen
    B
Under cover of night

    D
Do the Gaelic corner
   E
And the Morris Man
   F#m
All appeal to your sense
   B      D  D D D
Of a long lost England


VERSE:
     A       D     A  Asus4 A
But who said you have right to belong
    A       D       A  Asus4 A
About something you stole from our songs
        F#m
That have been song through our time
   F#m
Every note, every line
     A      D   A  Asus4 A
Hand me down by the writer anon
    A      E     A  Asus4 A
Did he say you have right to belong


VERSE:
     A      D     A  Asus4 A
And who gave you the key to the door
     A     D     A  Asus4 A
Did you pick it up during the war
   F#m
Keep it in your pocket
      F#m
Until it`s time to unlock it
     A      D    A  Asus4 A
And stop anyone from coming ashore
     A      E     A  Asus4 A
For who gave you the key to the door


PRE-CHORUS:
  F#m
Or was it the underdog
F#m            A
All that hard work had to stop
         E
From sailors to barbers

  F#m
And that formed your racism
F#m              A
Your sense of place and your rum
        E
Ma pa tikka masala


CHORUS:
      D
All these songs about soldiers
   E
All sent off to war
F#m           B
Make you forget was it worth fighting for

  D
As you fly the flag
   E
And dream of green pastures
  F#m
We rikkle the strength
    B      B
Of the tall puddle mountains


BREAK;
 B      C#m         F#m
Well you can still make a fuss at any debate
    D            E
Oh but here social justice transcends every race
     D       E      F#m F#m F#m F#m
But I`m glad you think folk music`s good
     D      E    A  A  Asus4 Asus4 A A
But you seem to have misunderstood /// /   /// / ///


VERSE:
  A       D      A  Asus4 A
So stop sitting there on the fence
   A     D     A  Asus4 A
The fight is about to commence
    F#m
Songs bring us together
  F#m
But to change the weather
       A      D    A  Asus4 A
But then it`s up to the whole audience
  A       E      A  Asus4 A
So stop sitting there on the fence


VERSE:
    A      D      A  Asus4 A
`Cause folk music belongs to us all
  A     D    A  Asus4 A
It catches whenever we fall
    F#m
Across villages and towns
   F#m
The songs will ring out
     Bm
Down the valleys and streams
   Bm
Carrying hearts and dreams
    F#m
You can hear people come
    F#m
To the sound of the drum
    Bm
It`s inclusivity
     Bm
Just the fact that it`s free

     A      D    A  Asus4 A
Means no fences, no doors, no walls
       A    E      A  Asus4 A
`Cause folk music belongs to us all


OUTRO:
    F#m
It`s inclusivity
     F#m
The mere fact that it`s free
     A      D    A  Asus4 A
Means no fences, no doors, no walls
       A    E      D  D  D A E A
`Cause folk music belongs to us all /// /// / / /