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My Family Tree Acoustic by Jake Thackray

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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

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:
Am
 Up my, my family tree
F                            Am
 There hangs my curious pedigree,
Am
My long, my lurid ancestry
              E7
 The prancing phantoms and ghosts Of my forefathers.

chorus:
F      G                   Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
          C         G        Am
 Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am         G                 Am
 There they perch for all to see
Am
 Up my, up my family tree.

verse 2:
Am
 Up my, my family tree,
 F                    Am
 No blue blood, no nobility
 Am
 No trace of aristocracy
Am         E7
Except for Uncle Sebastian Who once raped a duchess.

chorus:
F      G                   Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
          C         G        Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am         G                 Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.

 verse 3:
Am
We've no ancestral halls
F                              C
No haughty portraits on our walls;
Am
No family monuments at all
E7
Unless it's my cousin Sheila's Stupendous cleavage.

chorus:
F      G                   Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
         C         G        Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am         G                 Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.

verse 4:
Am
My great-great-uncle Sam
F                        C
 A very tranquil sort of man,
 Am
Could not afford his wife a pram -
E7
He pushed his babies round the park In a green wheelbarrow.

chorus:
 F      G                   Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
         C         G        Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am         G                 Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.

verse 5:
Am
 My Uncle Will, my Auntie May
F                         C
 Were very much in love, so they
 Am
Got married after some delay
E7 
 They dressed their kids up in white When they both went legal.

CHORUS:
F      G                   Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
        C         G        Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am         G                 Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.

VERSE 6:
Am
 When brother Richard was thirteen
F
He was a Boy Scout, keen and clean.
Am
He got presented to the Queen -
 E7
And then he went and spoiled it all When he offered her a Rolly!

chorus:
 F      G                   Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
         C         G        Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am         G                 Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.

VERSE 7:
 Am
Let this be understood,
F
That our family name is mud,
Am                          C
Our sheep are black our cheques are dud 
 E7
But we survive! We're alive! So it's up with the Thackrays!

CHORUS:
F      G                   Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
         C         G        Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am         G                 Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.