My Family Tree Acoustic chords by Jake Thackray

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Brilliant Mod found this :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgS4lCT2F4c

last seen in 1971 I suspect.  thanks


My Family Tree typical Jake witty, clever and frequently shocking.

verse 1:
A minorAm
 Up my, my family tree
FF              A minorAm
 There hangs my curious pedigree,
A minorAm
My long, my lurid ancestry
       E7E7
 The prancing phantoms and ghosts Of my forefathers.

chorus:
FF   G+G          A minorAm
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
     C majorC     G+G    A minorAm
 Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
A minorAm     G+G         A minorAm
 There they perch for all to see
A minorAm
 Up my, up my family tree.

verse 2:
A minorAm
 Up my, my family tree,
 FF          A minorAm
 No blue blood, no nobility
 A minorAm
 No trace of aristocracy
A minorAm     E7E7
Except for Uncle Sebastian Who once raped a duchess.

chorus:
FF   G+G          A minorAm
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
     C majorC     G+G    A minorAm
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
A minorAm     G+G         A minorAm
There they perch for all to see
A minorAm
Up my, up my family tree.

 verse 3:
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We've no ancestral halls
FF               C majorC
No haughty portraits on our walls;
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No family monuments at all
E7E7
Unless it's my cousin Sheila's Stupendous cleavage.

chorus:
FF   G+G          A minorAm
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
     C majorC     G+G    A minorAm
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
A minorAm     G+G         A minorAm
There they perch for all to see
A minorAm
Up my, up my family tree.

verse 4:
A minorAm
My great-great-uncle Sam
FF            C majorC
 A augmentedA very tranquil sort of man,
 A minorAm
Could not afford his wife a pram -
E7E7
He pushed his babies round the park In a green wheelbarrow.

chorus:
 FF   G+G          A minorAm
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
     C majorC     G+G    A minorAm
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
A minorAm     G+G         A minorAm
There they perch for all to see
A minorAm
Up my, up my family tree.

verse 5:
A minorAm
 My Uncle Will, my Auntie May
FF             C majorC
 Were very much in love, so they
 A minorAm
Got married after some delay
E7E7
 They dressed their kids up in white When they both went legal.

CHORUS:
FF   G+G          A minorAm
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
    C majorC     G+G    A minorAm
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
A minorAm     G+G         A minorAm
There they perch for all to see
A minorAm
Up my, up my family tree.

VERSE 6:
A minorAm
 When brother Richard was thirteen
FF
He was a Boy Scout, keen and clean.
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He got presented to the Queen -
 E7E7
And then he went and spoiled it all When he offered her a Rolly!

chorus:
 FF   G+G          A minorAm
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
     C majorC     G+G    A minorAm
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
A minorAm     G+G         A minorAm
There they perch for all to see
A minorAm
Up my, up my family tree.

VERSE 7:
 A minorAm
Let this be understood,
FF
That our family name is mud,
A minorAm             C majorC
Our sheep are black our cheques are dud
 E7E7
But we survive! We're alive! So it's up with the Thackrays!

CHORUS:
FF   G+G          A minorAm
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
     C majorC     G+G    A minorAm
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
A minorAm     G+G         A minorAm
There they perch for all to see
A minorAm
Up my, up my family tree.