Artist: | Al Stewart (English) |
User: | Steve Godfrey |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
G D
I was a post war baby in a small Scots town
C D
I was 3 years old when we moved down south
G D
Hard times written in my mother's looks
C F G
With her widow's pension and a ration book
D
Aneurin Bevin took the miner's cause
C D
To the house of commons in his coal dust voice
G D
We were locked up safe and warm from the snow
C F G
With Life With The Lions on the radi-o
Em A(7)
And Churchill said to Louis Mountbatten
Em A(7)
I just can't stand to see you today
Em A(7)
How could you've gone and given India away
C D
Mountbatten just frowned said 'what can I say'
G D
Some of these things slip through your hands
C D
And there's no good talking or making plans
G C
But Churchill he just flapped his wings
A D B
Said 'I don't really care to discuss these things'
Em(7) ? G
But oh, every time I look at you
Em(7) (A7) D
I feel so low I don't know what to do
C D G C
Every day just seems to bring bad new-oo-oos
G D G ---- next verse or
Leaves me here with the post world war II blues. instrumental
The instrumental follows the first 4 lines of the verse ie the chords
GDCDGDCFG and then goes into the second section with a slight variation
before launching into the last verse; the chords here are Em A Em A Em
A C F D G.
Finally at the end of the song is a nice bit that you need to
listen to in order to get the timing right:
Between last chorus and last chorus repeat:
G D G A Bm Em(7)
Leaves me here with the post world war II blues. Oh every.....
After last chorus repeat:
G D G A Bm C G
Leaves me here with the post world war II blues.