Billy Bragg – Shirley (Guitar)

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Released: 1999 Album: Reaching to the Converted Note: * after chord means strike chord once and let it ring. Capo: No [Intro] G D C D G D C D G D C D G D Am7* [Verse 1]
G   Bm
Shirley,

Em        D            C        D            Em       Bm
It's so exciting to be sleeping here in this new room,

G   Bm
Shirley,

Em        D         C          D     Em   Bm
You're my reason to get out of bed before noon.
[Verse 2]
G   Bm
Shirley,

Em       D           C          D           Em       Bm
You know when we sat out on the fire escape talking,

G   Bm
Shirley,

Em           D         C         D            Em Bm  Am7  C
What did you say about running before we were walking?
[Verse 3]
Am7                     C
Sometimes when we're as close as this,

     G          D    G     D
It's like we're in a dream,

Am7                       C
How can you lie there and think of England,

         D                     D7     D
When you don't even know who's in the team?
[Verse 4]
G   Bm
Shirley,

Em          D             C       D        Em       Bm
Your sexual politics have left me all of a muddle,

G   Bm
Shirley,

Em    D             C   D       Em   Bm   Am7  C
We're joined in the ideological cud—dle.
[Verse 5]
Am7                C
I'm celebrating my love to you,

       G       D          G     D
With a pint of beer and a new tattoo,

Am7                C
And if you haven't noticed yet,

         D                        D7      D
I'm more impressionable when my cement is wet.
[Instrumental] G Em C D G Em C D [Bridge]
Em           E               Am                    C
Politics and pregnancy are debated as we empty our glasses,

    G     Em                 C   G G D D
And how I love those evening classes.
[Verse 6]
G   Bm
Shirley,

Em         D           C      D         Em       Bm
You really know how to make a young man angry,

G   Bm
Shirley,

Em     D               C             D          Em  Bm  Am7 C
Can we get through the night without mentioning family?
[Verse 7]
Am7                  C
The people from your church agree,

     G        D      G     D
It's not much of a career,

Am7                C
Trying the handles of parked cars,

D                   D7    D
Whoops there goes another year,

D                   D7    D       G
Whoops there goes another pint of beer.
[Interlude] G Bm Em D C D Em Bm G Bm Em D C D Em Bm Am7 C [Verse 8]
Am7                C
Here we are in our summer years,

G         D             G         D
Living on ice cream and chocolate kisses,

Am7                   C
And would leaves fall from the trees,

         D                D7         D       D
If I was your old man and you was my missus?
[Outro] G Bm
        Em        D            G
Give my greetings to the new brunette.

 G   Bm
(Shirley),

Em               D      G
Greetings to the new brunette,

 G   Bm
(Shirley),

Am        C             G
Greetings to the new brunette,

 G   Bm
(Shirley),

Am        C             G
Greetings to the new brunette,

 G   Bm
(Shirley),
Am C G G Bm Am7*