Billy Bragg : Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy

Capo:

VII

G

Em

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G

Em

G

If you're lonely, I will call

G

Em

G

C

Em

If you're poorly, I will send poetry

G

D

G

D/f#

Em

I love you, I am the milkman of human kindness

C

G

I will leave an extra pint If you are sleeping, I will wait If your bed is wet, I will dry your tears I love you, I am the milkman of human kindness I will leave an extra pint

C

D

Em

C

Em

G

D

Hold my hand for me, I'm waking up

Em

C

Em

G

D

Hold my hand for me, I'm waking up

Em

C

Em

G

D

Would you hold my hand, I'm making up

Em

C

G

D

Hold my hand for me, I'm waking up If you are falling, I will put out my hand If you feel bitter, I will understand I love you, I am the milkman of human kindness I will leave an extra pint

G

D/f#

Em

C

G

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| Up in the morning and out in school Mother says there'll be no work next year Qualification once the Golden Rule Are now just pieces of paper Just because you're better then me Doesn't mean I'm lazy Just because you're going forwards Doesn't mean I'm going backwards If you look the part you'll get the job In last year's trousers and your old school shoes The truth is, son, it's a buyers market They can afford to pick and choose Just because you're better then me Doesn't mean I'm lazy Just because I dress like this Doesn't mean I'm a communist! The factories are closing and the army's full I don't know what I'm going to do But I've come to see, in the land of the free There's only a future for the chosen few Just because you're better then me Doesn't mean I'm lazy Just because you're going forwards Doesn't mean I'm going backwards At 21 you're on top of the scrapheap At 16 you were top of you're class All they taught you at school was how to be a good worker The system has failed you, don't fail yourself Just because you're better then me Doesn't mean I'm lazy Just because you're going forwards Doesn't mean I'm going backwards

G

C

G

Richard belongs to Jayne

G

C

G

And Jayne belongs to yesterday

G

C

G

How can I go on

G

C

D

When every alpha particle hides a neon nucleus? Neil belongs to love And love belongs to no man How can he go on When no one answers the adverts in his mind?

Bm

G

There will be parties, there will be fun

Bm

G

There will be prizes for everyone

C

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Am

G

And hey, hey, hey, here comes Richard There will be ladies dressed in lace I just want to see her face When hey, hey, hey, here comes Richard You helped me build this bed But you won't help me sleep in it When I fall between you and the wall Our titanic love affair sails on the morning tide Our titanic love affair sails on the morning tide Our titanic love affair sails on the morning tide There will be parties, there will be fun There will be prizes for everyone And hey, hey, hey, here comes Richard There will be ladies dressed in lace I just want to see her face When hey, hey, hey, here comes Richard I really love you style Did you read it in the Look and Learn? How long can we go on? Do you think I only love you because you sleep with other boys

F/e

F

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F/e

F

F/e

F

F/e

F

I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song

C

Dm

I'm twenty-two now but I won't be for long

Bb

F

People ask me when will you grow up to be a man

C

Bb

F/e

F

But all the girls I loved at school are already pushing prams I loved you then as I love you still Though I put you on a pedestal, I put you on the pill I don't feel bad about letting you go I just feel bad about letting you know

Bb

Am

F

I don't want to change the world

F

F/e

Dm

I'm not looking for a new England

Bb

Am

C

Csus4

C

I'm just looking for another girl

Bb

Am

F

I don't want to change the world

F

F/e

Dm

I'm not looking for a new England

Bb

C

F

I'm just looking for another girl I loved the words you wrote to me But that was bloody yesterday I can't survive on what you send Every time you need a friend I saw two shooting stars last night I wished on them but they were only satellites Is it wrong to wish on space hardware? I wish I wish I wish you'd care I don't want to change the world I'm not looking for a new England I'm just looking for another girl

F(viii)

C(viii)

Bb(vi)

C(viii)

Fmaj7

Intro/Verse

Am7

F

C

G

C

Riff

Em

Am

Em

Am

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Am7

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Riff

When he drops you off I will not say

Em

Am

Em

Am

Who was that who so quickly drove away

Am7

F

C

G

C

Riff

The things you've done and the places you've been

Em

Am

Em

Am

When I open the door for you I will not let them in

Am7

F

C

G

C

Riff

As long as you come back to me I will never ask

Em

Am

Em

Am

For you I will be the man in the iron mask

G

Em

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You said you loved me and it broke my heart I was always your prisoner right from the start The nights you spend without me this house is like a dungeon And you only return to torture me more You must have your reasons, I will not ask For you I will be the man in the iron mask

Improvise around intro

A7

G

D

C

G

The busy girl buys beauty

C

G

B

The pretty girl buys style

C

G

D

Em

And the simple girl buys what she's told to buy

C

G

And sees her world

D

Through the brightly lit eyes Of the glossy romance of fashion

C

D

Em

Where she can learn top tips for the gas cook

C

D

Em

Successful secrets of a sexual kind

C

D

Em

The daily drill for beautiful hair

C

G

And the truth about pain |

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G

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G

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D

G

C

G

What was Anna Ford wearing?

Bm

Em

What did Angela Rippon say?

C

G

What will you do when you wake up one morning

D

To find that God's made you plain In a beautiful person's world? And all those quick recipes have let you down And you're twenty and a half and not yet engaged Will you go look for the boy who says I love you let's get married and have kids The busy girl buys beauty The pretty girl buys style And the simple girl buys what she's told to buy She sees her world Through the brightly lit eyes Of the glossy romance of fashion Where she can learn top tips for the gas cook Successful secrets of a sexual kind The daily drill for beautiful hair In a mail order paradise...

G

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C

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Em

It's that summer of the evening

C

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D

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G

D

Get ready and roll the cassette

G

D

Em

There's boy's outside preaching genocide

C

D

And trying to think up some sort of threat

C

G

Em

And the ladies in the cloakroom

G

D

Take no notice of me

Em

C

I wish myself was back at home

D

G

But there's nothing safe in watching TV There's something born tomorrow That I lost when I was out for a drink How many gangs is it gonna take To change the way I think It takes more than good intentions And a big bloke on the door And though it's never the same after the first time That doesn't stop them coming back for more

Em

C

G

Fighting in the dance halls happens anyway

G

Em

Sometimes it makes me stop and think

C

D

G

Sometimes it makes me turn away

G

Em

Sometimes it makes me stop and think

C

D

G

Sometimes it makes me turn away

G

Em

Sometimes it makes me stop and think

C

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D

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G

But most times it makes me run away

Billy Bragg : Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy
1983

The Milkman Of Human Kindness

To Have And To Have Not

Richard

A New England

The Man In The Iron Mask

The Busy Girl Buys Beauty

Lovers Town Revisited

Billy Bragg : Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy 1983

The Milkman Of Human Kindness

To Have And To Have Not

Richard

A New England

The Man In The Iron Mask

The Busy Girl Buys Beauty

Lovers Town Revisited

Billy Bragg : Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy
1983