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Who Told You Folk Music Was Yours (Ver2) by Osborn Gavin

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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
/ ///   /   ///    /  /// ///

 A  Asus4 Asus4 A
///   /    ///  /

   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 /// /// / / /