When We Were Boys At School chords by Richard Thompson

Chords with lyrics

B minorBm   E minorEm          F#7F#7
All he ever wanted to do was harm
B minorBm   E minorEm          F#7F#7
All he ever wanted to be was cruel
  B minorBm      D MajorD    A augmentedA     E minorEm
At twelve years old Fate marked his brow
   B minorBm    D MajorD   A augmentedA    E minorEm
And he said, I have a mission now
    Gmaj7Gmaj7     F#m7F#m7
But we laughed at his clothes
    Gmaj7Gmaj7        F#m7F#m7
And the blackheads round his nose
       BB
When we were boys at school
Teachers spoke of Hannibal and Hector
Nimrod and Nietzsche were his fuel
Swastikas and pentagrams
Flourished from his tender hands
But we watched in the rain
As the bully beat him up again
When we were boys at school

DmDm
And he said, my camouflage will hide me
G minorGm   DmDm     G minorGm    DmDm
I’ll be grey as the world is grey
E minorEm
A augmentedA thousand government corridors
 A minorAm     E minorEm  A minorAm    E minorEm
Behind which of a thousand doors
    F# minorF#m		   F#sus4F#sus4
Will I delegate and rule, o little boys at school

B minorBm   E minorEm          F#7F#7
All he ever wanted to do was harm
B minorBm   E minorEm          F#7F#7
All he ever wanted to be was cruel
  BbmBbm    C#C#    G#G#    D#mD#m
And sometimes when the night is still
   BbmBbm   C#C#    G#G#   D#mD#m
I can feel the gathering of his will
   B minorBm    D MajorD    A augmentedA     E minorEm
I can feel him flex the strings of power
  B minorBm    D MajorD   A augmentedA    E minorEm
And grope to his appointed hour
    Gmaj7Gmaj7     F#m7F#m7
But we laughed at the dirt
    Gmaj7Gmaj7        F#m7F#m7
And the frayed cuffs on his shirt
   C majorC        C7C7
When we were boys at school



by: José Duarte