In Recognition chords by The Proclaimers

Chords with lyrics

NOTE: In the album track, the strumming is palm muted, and it sounds best if you palm mute pretty much every
chord in the song, and you might want to use 5th chords for the intro (G5, B5, C5, D5D5)

Have fun!

Intro:
G+G B minorBm C majorC D MajorD
G+G B minorBm C majorC D MajorD

Verse 1:
G+G    B minorBm     C majorC      D MajorD
In Recognition of a 100 million album sales
G+G    B minorBm     C majorC      D MajorD
In Recognition of your popularity
G+G       B minorBm        C majorC        D MajorD
You take your gaudy prize from people you said you despised
G+G       B minorBm      C majorC        G+G
You wear your self-respect upon your bended knee

Chorus:
  C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
In spite of all your claims
  C majorC        D MajorD    G+G
It looks like you're just the same
  C majorC      C minorCm     B minorBm      E minorEm
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C majorC     D MajorD      G+G
Before or after their name

Verse 2:
G+G    B minorBm      C majorC       D MajorD
In Recognition of your service to the working class
G+G    B minorBm      C majorC     D MajorD
In Recognition of your party loyalty
G+G      B minorBm       C majorC        D MajorD
You get an ermine robe and you declare when you are probed
G+G     B minorBm      C majorC        G+G
You only took it so the missus would be pleased

Chorus:
  C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
In spite of all your claims
  C majorC        D MajorD    G+G
It looks like you're just the same
  C majorC      C minorCm     B minorBm      E minorEm
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C majorC     D MajorD      G+G
Before or after their name

Bridge:
B minorBm   E minorEm
Ohhhhhh Vanity
C majorC        D MajorD
It gets them one by one
B minorBm      E minorEm
Patronage and Monarchy
C majorC          D MajorD
And all they entail, rarely frail

Verse 3:
G+G    B minorBm      C majorC     D MajorD
In Recognition of your bravery up on the stage
G+G    B minorBm      C majorC    D MajorD
In Recognition of your bankability
G+G     B minorBm         C majorC         D MajorD
You get to wait in line with soldiers crippled by land mines
G+G       B minorBm         C majorC      G+G
And you think it's the yanks that don't get irony

Chorus:
  C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
In spite of all your claims
  C majorC        D MajorD    G+G
It looks like you're just the same
  C majorC      C minorCm     B minorBm      E minorEm
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C majorC     D MajorD      G+G
Before or after their name

Chorus:
  C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
In spite of all your claims
  C majorC        D MajorD    G+G
It looks like you're just the same
  C majorC      C minorCm     B minorBm      E minorEm
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C majorC     D MajorD      G+G
Before or after their name

G+G   B minorBm  C majorC D MajorD
Their name
G+G   B minorBm  C majorC D MajorD
Their name
G+G   B minorBm  C majorC D MajorD