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A Place Called England chords by June Tabor

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[Intro]

Chord diagramDmDm Chord diagramDm7Dm7 Chord diagramAsus2Asus2


[Verse 1]

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I rode out on a bright May morning
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Like a hero in a song
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Looking for a place called England
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Trying to find where I   belong

Chord diagramB minorBm       Chord diagramA augmentedA        Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramA augmentedA
Couldn't find the old flood meadow
Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramE minorEm           Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramA augmentedA
Or the house that I once knew
Chord diagramB minorBm       Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramA augmentedA
No trace of  the little river
Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramE minorEm     Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramDmDm
Or the garden where I grew
[Verse 2]

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I saw town and I saw country
Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramF# minorF#m  Chord diagramE MajorE
Motorway and sink estate
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Rich man in his rolling acres
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Poor man still outside the gate

Chord diagramB minorBm     Chord diagramA augmentedA        Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramA augmentedA
Retail park and burger kingdom
Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramE minorEm        Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramA augmentedA
Prairie field and factory farm
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Run by men who think that England's
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Only a place to park their car

Chord diagramDm7Dm7 - Chord diagramAsus2Asus2


[Verse 3]

Chord diagramA augmentedA          Chord diagramE MajorE            Chord diagramA augmentedA        Chord diagramF# minorF#m
But as the train pulled from the station
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Through the wastelands of   despair
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From the corner of my eye
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Chord diagramA augmentedA brightness filled the filthy air

Chord diagramB minorBm        Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramA augmentedA
Someone's grown a patch of sunflowers
Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramE minorEm       Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramA augmentedA
Though the soil is sooty black
Chord diagramB minorBm        Chord diagramA augmentedA     Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramA augmentedA
Marigolds and a few tomatoes
Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramE minorEm         Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramDmDm
Right beside the railway track
[Verse 4]

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Down behind the terraced houses
Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramA augmentedA        Chord diagramF# minorF#m      Chord diagramE MajorE
In between the concrete towers
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Compost heaps and scarlet runners
Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramA augmentedA
Secret gardens full of flowers

Chord diagramB minorBm   Chord diagramA augmentedA         Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramA augmentedA
Rita grows her scented roses
Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramE minorEm       Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramA augmentedA
Right beneath the big jet's path
Chord diagramB minorBm     Chord diagramA augmentedA      Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramA augmentedA
Bid a fortune for her garden
Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramE minorEm    Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramDmDm
Eileen turns away and laughs

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[Verse 5]

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So rise up George and wake up Arthur
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Time to rouse out from your sleep
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Deck the halls with sea-green ribbons
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Drag the old sword from the deep

Chord diagramB minorBm       Chord diagramA augmentedA        Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramA augmentedA
Hold the line for Dave and Daniel
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As they tunnel through the clay
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While the oak in all its glory
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Soaks up sun for one more day


[Verse 6]

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And come all you at home with freedom
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Whatever the land that gave you birth
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There's room for you both root and branch
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As long as you love the English earth

Chord diagramB minorBm       Chord diagramA augmentedA        Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramA augmentedA
Room for vole and room for orchid
Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramE minorEm     Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramA augmentedA
Room for all to grow and thrive
Chord diagramB minorBm        Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramA augmentedA
Just less room for the fat landowner
Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramE minorEm          Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramDmDm
On his arse in his four-wheel drive

Chord diagramDm7Dm7 - Chord diagramAsus4Asus4 - Chord diagramAsus2Asus2


[Verse 7]

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For England is not flag or Empire
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It is not money it is not blood
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It's limestone gorge and granite fell
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It's Weald and clay and Severn mud

Chord diagramB minorBm             Chord diagramA augmentedA       Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramA augmentedA
It's blackbird singing from the may-tree
Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramE minorEm        Chord diagramD MajorD           Chord diagramA augmentedA
Lark ascending through the scales
Chord diagramB minorBm    Chord diagramA augmentedA        Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramA augmentedA
Robin watching from his spade
Chord diagramD MajorD           Chord diagramE minorEm    Chord diagramD MajorD            Chord diagramDmDm
And English earth beneath your nails

Chord diagramAsus2Asus2


[Verse 8]

Chord diagramA augmentedA             Chord diagramE MajorE            Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramF# minorF#m
So here's two cheers for a place called England
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Sore abused but not yet dead
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Chord diagramA augmentedA Mr. Harding sort of England
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Hanging in there by a thread

Chord diagramB minorBm         Chord diagramA augmentedA              Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramA augmentedA
Here's two cheers for the crazy Diggers
Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramE minorEm       Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramA augmentedA
Now their hour has come around
Chord diagramB minorBm       Chord diagramA augmentedA         Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramA augmentedA
We shall plant the seed they saved us
Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramE minorEm         Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramDmDm

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