A Place Called England chords by June Tabor

[Intro]

Dm Dm7 Asus2


[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

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Couldn't find the old flood meadow
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Or the house that I once knew
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No trace of the little river
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Or the garden where I grew


[Verse 2]

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I saw town and I saw country
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Motorway and sink estate
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Rich man in his rolling acres
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Poor man still outside the gate

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Retail park and burger kingdom
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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

Dm7 - Asus2


[Verse 3]

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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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A brightness filled the filthy air

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Someone's grown a patch of sunflowers
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Though the soil is sooty black
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Marigolds and a few tomatoes
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Right beside the railway track


[Verse 4]

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Down behind the terraced houses
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In between the concrete towers
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Compost heaps and scarlet runners
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Secret gardens full of flowers

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Rita grows her scented roses
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Right beneath the big jet's path
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Bid a fortune for her garden
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Eileen turns away and laughs

Asus4 - Fmaj7


[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

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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

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Room for vole and room for orchid
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Room for all to grow and thrive
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Just less room for the fat landowner
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On his arse in his four-wheel drive

Dm7 - Asus4 - Asus2


[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

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It's blackbird singing from the may-tree
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Lark ascending through the scales
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Robin watching from his spade
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And English earth beneath your nails

Asus2


[Verse 8]

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So here's two cheers for a place called England
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Sore abused but not yet dead
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A Mr. Harding sort of England
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Hanging in there by a thread

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Here's two cheers for the crazy Diggers
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Now their hour has come around
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We shall plant the seed they saved us
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