Billy Bragg – Island Of No Return (Guitar)

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As recorded by Billy Bragg (From the 1984 Album BREWING UP WITH BILLY BRAGG) [Intro] Em G Am Em G Em G Em G [Verse 1]
Am                   C
Digging all day and digging all night

   Em
To keep my foxhole out of sight

D                        C
Digging into dinner on a plate on my knees

Em
The smell of damp webbing in the morning breeze

Am                  C
Fear in my stomach, fear in the sky

  Em
I eat my dinner with a weary eye

Am                      C
After all this it won't be the same

Em                          G     D C  D G  D C D
Messing around on Salisbury Plain
[Chorus]
G
Pick up your feet, fall in, move out

      C                  
We're going to a party way down South

G
Me and the Corporal out on a spree

C                   D     Em  Am C Em  Am C 
Damned from here to eternity
[Bridge]
Em                                       Am C
I can already taste the blood in my mouth?

Em                              Am C 
We're going to a party way down South
[Interlude] Em G Em G Em G [Verse 2]
  D                    C
I hate this flat land, there's no cover

    Em
For sons and fathers and brothers and lovers

      D                       C
I can take the killing, I can take the slaughter

    Em
But I don't talk to Sun reporters

  D                  C
I never thought that I would be

G        Em
Fighting fascists in the Southern Sea

  Am                C
I saw one today and in his hand

      Em                            G D  C D G D C D 
Was a weapon that was made in Birmingham
[Chorus]
G                       D
Pick up your feet, fall in, move out

      C                    D
We're going to a party way down South

G                   D
Me and the Corporal out on a spree

C                    D     Em  Am C Em  Am C 
Damned from here to eternity
[Bridge]
Em                                       Am C
I can already taste the blood in my mouth?

Em                              Am C Em
We're going to a party way down South
[Interlude] G Em G Em G Em G [Chorus]
       Em                      G
I wish Kipling and the Captain were here

     D                        C
To record our pursuits for posterity

Em                  G
Me and the Corporal out on a spree

D                C      Em G  Em  G
Damned from here to eternity
[Outro] Em G Em G Em G Em G Em G Em G Em C Em